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REPUBLICAN INSIDER: “Out With The Old – And In With The New”

The Ulsterman Report
Ulsterman
3/7/2013

Excerpt:

A written message received from our Republican Insider indicates a significant shift within the Republican Party is now fully underway – a shift R.I. promised us months ago was coming…a shift symbolized by Senator Rand Paul’s dramatic filibuster yesterday of the Obama administration’s continued drone obsession. ”Out with the old – and in with the new.”

(Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are among a growing number of dynamic and more conservative members of the Republican Party)

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Did you enjoy the coverage yesterday? Woooo-hoooo!

I don’t want to make too much out of the wonderful work done by Senator Paul and others involved in the filibuster, because there’s a lot more work to do and the push back from the party leadership is already underway. Thing is, and this is what gets me so excited about the future of the party, is that this new crop of conservative Republicans doesn’t give a damn about getting along with the leadership. And this attitude is now becoming a fixture within the Senate. Historically you’ve always had some outlier members of the House, the two-year election cycle allows some interesting characters to get in there, but the Senate is normally a much more moderate institution not prone to the quick political changes that can transform the House.
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Suppose I could say “I told you so” about what was coming inside the party. Well, how about I go ahead and do that? I told you so! And do you remember our very first interview when I described myself as a ”libertarian leaning conservative”? And look who showed up yesterday and took the national spotlight away from the president! Love it!

This is a lot more than just about Senator Paul or Senator Cruz or the others who joined them. It really is about a tyrant sitting in the White House. And that is what Barack Obama is. He is “president” in title only. With the help of his own political party that is now fully controlled by the most radical element in the history of American politics, and more help from the media, Barack Obama is a full on tyrant. If history were truthful, that is how he would be described. He continues to shred our Constitution right down the middle but yesterday, God bless him, Senator Paul stood up against a tyrant and in the process, helped to get the American public paying just a little more attention and asking a few more questions that point to the very soul of the United States. Some people will read that and say I’m exaggerating, but I’m telling you, that is what yesterday was about. It was a start to a process that has finally started inside the GOP, and hopefully will spread across America. Will we be a country that puts people and their freedom first or a country that puts government and its authority first? We’ve been picking the latter for the last twelve years. (Yes, I’m lumping the GW years in there too. I have said it before and I will say it again, we would not have Barack Obama without first having the GW Bush years. One allowed the other to happen. Sorry if that offends some Bush supporters but that is the reality of it.)

Today I am sensing a shift on the Hill. Even the Dems are noticing it. The Republican Party is going through some growing pains right now, but what will be left is a much stronger party that is going to appeal to a lot more people across the country, and I’ve had more than a few Dems tell me they are already backing away from the Obama years because they know a voter backlash is coming. They know that more people are going to start talking about what was really going on in that White House. The question they are facing right now is if they will back away before 2014 or after 2014? I don’t care either way because the way the Republican Party is already transforming itself, and let me make a great good news prediction for you right now, I am feeling very good about 2014. We are looking to pick up another 8 to 12 seats in the House and up to three in the Senate. Not quite enough to take back the Senate, but enough to cripple Reid’s leadership which ends after 2014. Yes, that’s another prediction. Harry Reid’s leadership will be challenged and even if he hangs on, he will be damaged enough that his influence will be greatly reduced. So that will also mean Barack Obama’s Lame Duck status will be secured as we then go from 2014 into 2016 with a leaner, meaner, and much more prepared Republican Party than what we saw in 2012.

If you go back and research political history, what we have right now in the GOP is very similar to what we had in 1977 where old ideas were new again. Ronald Reagan was the one to push those ideas back into the light. Make them popular with the American public again. That is very similar to what is going on right now. The fight will be a bit tougher due to an even more pro-liberal Mainstream Media, but yesterday you saw an example of another thing I’ve been saying the party must do a better job of and that is coordinating a new media response. Senator Paul utilized social media as good as anyone has done in recent memory and the message bypassed the old media filter and went directly to the American people and those people embraced that message! Let the old guard sit around a table with Barack Obama and pretend they are still relevant. Senator Paul was LEADING, and isn’t that what so many Americans are really craving now? Even liberals sense they have been without real leadership in this country for too long.

It’s out with the old and in with the new. Senator Paul, Senator Cruz, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Jerry Moran, Senator Rubio, Senator Cornyn, Senator Chambliss, Senator Flake, Senator Toomey, Senator Scott, and a whole list of others who indicated their support for the filibuster represent the NEW Republican Party. And people should also note that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was part of the effort as well. He is facing re-election and is following the lead of the JUNIOR senator from Kentucky. Talk about a great symbolic example of the old guard giving way to the new guard!
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Republican Operatives Take On McCain and Graham (R.I. Related)

The Ulsterman Report
Ulsterman
3/8/2013

Excerpt:

If John McCain and Lindsey Graham think they are the most influential members of the Republican Party, they are, quite simply, utterly and completely out of touch. This week sees Republican operatives moving against the old guard Republicans in defense of the new generation – and McCain and Graham have little left to do but complain…

(Senator John McCain and others unwilling to join an emerging conservative resurgence within the Republican Party are quickly becoming irrelevant and soon to be left as remnants of past GOP failures. Maybe you shouldn’t have cancelled that promised Benghazi press conference before the 2012 election Senator…)
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EXCERPT (Via HotAir)

“Wacko birds”: McCain and staff keep dumping on Rand Paul

At this point, you’d think he’d tone it down if for no other reason than that he’s doing Paul an incredible favor by continuing to pound on him. The optics simply couldn’t be better. An unsuccessful former party nominee who’s pushing 80 and known for being the most enthusiastic interventionist in American government, tearing a guy apart for making a basic constitutional point about not assassinating American citizens? What?

Don’t forget to send him a thank-you card, Rand.

“Either they were drinking a lot at the Obama party or they’re just completely dismissive of what was going on,” said one senior Republican strategist. “They’re living in an alternative universe. I don’t get it at all. You have a party where there’s all this talk about how divided the establishment is from the grassroots, and then you have John McCain and Lindsey Graham come out of left field with this. People are just scratching their heads.”…

Another GOP operative called Graham and McCain “just completely out of touch.”…
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Open Letter to Rand Paul

Obama State Ballot Challenge
GeorgeM
3/9/2013

Excerpt:

Mr. Paul,

I cannot even find it in my heart to address you by your fraudulent title. You, and your father before you, are both ignoring our Constitution and your oaths of office. Oh, sure, your little stunt on the floor of the Peoples’ Senate was great kabuki, but true Constitutionalists understand that you have yet to display a true commitment to our Revered Constitution. Actions speak louder than words, and your words ring so hollow.

The person currently usurping the Oval Office is NOT POTUS. No one knows anything about him, except that all the paperwork that has been forged to advance him is fake, just like him. I don’t know if anyone even knows his real name. The first time it appears in history, is on his mother’s passport, and that states his name is “Soebarkah”. He comes up as Soetoro, Obama, Bounel. Does anyone really know who this empty suit is? I know for certain that YOU don’t! Your father doesn’t……We the People don’t. Maybe ValerieJarrett knows….or Bill Ayers, or maybe even the Clintons, but no one is saying. No one that is, except some die-hard, true Constitutionalists who know he is not who he says he is, or legit. Respected people like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mike Zullo, the MCCCP, and millions of Americans who are waiting for a justifiable response why you and people like you and your father, refuse to follow that Revered Constitution you claim to love so much……..

Guess you think we were all just freshly picked in the cabbage patch…….Benghazi victims and their families, Border Agent Terry and his family, Agent Jaime Zappattta and his family, LtC Lakin and his family……these fine Americans deserve to know why you are a coward and a traitor. So do the rest of us.

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The Senator from Al Qaeda

Canada Free Press
Daniel Greenfield
3/10/2013

Excerpt:

Here’s an easy way to tell when your position isn’t a conservative one. When you’re standing with Van Jones, your position isn’t a conservative one. When you’re standing with Code Pink, then your position is not a conservative one.

No amount of noise or chest-beating is going to change that.

The Republican Party has taken a severe beating in the last year. With so many hopes down the drain, some will take a victory where they can find it, even if it’s a younger version of Ron Paul.

There are Conservative sites that are positively giddy about Rand Paul getting positive mentions from John Cusack and Van Jones. Code Pink’s endorsement is being treated like some kind of victory.

Are we really getting worked up about getting a pat on the head from the left? Are we all Paultards now or are we all RINOs now?

Or is finding someone to the left of Obama to side with… supposed to be a victory for conservative principles?

“Will the Left finally get the Tea Party now?” Breitbart’s site asks. If Andrew Breitbart were alive, he could have answered that question in one four letter word.

The left “gets” the Tea Party. It gets it as a middle class bourgeois defense of its property and rights against the the rule of the left.

That is what the Tea Party is. That is what the Left is.

Code Pink and Van Jones who are happy to see the Republican Party adopting their views

Even saner heads are calling Rand Paul’s filibuster a political victory. The only place that it’s a victory is in the echo chambers of a victory-starved party. And to Code Pink and Van Jones who are happy to see the Republican Party adopting their views.

The “brilliant victory” was that some Republicans tried to go further on the left than Obama on National Defense. Maybe next they can try to go further left than him on Immigration, Gay Marriage and Abortion.

And if that doesn’t work, Rand Paul and Jon Huntsman can get together on ending the War on Drugs.

Most Americans support using drones to kill Al Qaeda terrorists. Most Americans don’t know about the filibuster or care. Most Americans want political and economic reforms, not conspiracy theories.

The Paul filibuster was about drone strikes on American soil, the way that Obama ‘only’ wants to ban assault rifles.

This isn’t about using drones to kill Americans on American soil. That’s a fake claim being used by Rand Paul as a wedge issue to dismantle the War on Terror. Now that he manipulated conservative support for that, he can begin moving forward with his real agenda.

Rand Paul is on record as opposing Guantanamo Bay and supports releasing the terrorists. He’s on record opposing drone strikes against Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, saying, “A perpetual drone war in Pakistan makes those people more angry and not less angry.”

This position is no different than that of his father. The only difference is that Rand Paul is better at sticking statements like these into the middle of some conservative rhetoric.

It’s the same trick that Barack Obama pulls every time he gives a speech.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted fellow GOP Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday, saying the two “think the whole world is a battlefield.”

Like Ron Paul, Rand shifts the blame to America. It’s not Senator McCain who thinks the whole world is a battlefield. It’s Al Qaeda.

Here, in the middle of Rand Paul’s drone rant is what he really stands for and against.

It’s one thing to say yeah, these people are going to probably come and attack us, which to tell you the truth is probably not always true. There are people fighting a civil war in Yemen who probably have no conception of ever coming to America.

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Rally 'round Rand Paul

Exclusive: Joseph Farah applauds senator for challenging imperious presidency

WND
Joseph Farah
3/10/2013

Excerpt:

I listened to Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster last week.

It was unlike any political theater I have ever witnessed in Washington before. It was compelling TV. I was riveted.

His focus was simple. Though the issue was technically the Senate confirmation of John Brennan as CIA director (a bad idea), it was more specifically on a much more fundamental matter: Does the Constitution still matter?

Neither Barack Obama nor Attorney General Eric Holder has been willing to rule out the use of drones to kill non-combatant American citizens on U.S. soil without due process.

Here’s what Holder had to say to the question: “It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the president to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States.”

He added: “Were such an emergency to arise, I would examine the particular facts and circumstances before advising the president on the scope of his authority.”

On March 7, following Paul’s filibuster, Holder delivered a letter to the senator stating, “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil? The answer to that question is no.”

Keep in mind, for months, Paul has been soliciting an answer to the question of whether the administration thinks it has the legal power to kill Americans on U.S. soil with drones. That was Holder’s apparently thoughtful response after all that time.

The nation owes Paul a debt of gratitude for pressing this issue so forcefully on the floor of the Senate.

In fact, the entire country should rally ’round Rand and demand Obama come out with a clear, unambiguous rejection of any executive branch authority to murder Americans from the skies as they do in Yemen or Afghanistan or foreign countries.

If ever there were an issue on which all Americans should be able to reach consensus, this would seem like one.

It’s a narrow question with broad implications.

An administration unwilling to concede cheerfully and without arm-twisting that it does not have the power to deny due process to American citizens on U.S. soil is capable of anything – including murder.

This should be disturbing to Republicans, Democrats, independents, everyone.

Obama has demonstrated near-total disregard for the Constitution for more than four years, so this is not just a hypothetical question.

It goes right to the heart of who we are as a nation under the rule of law.

Why have Obama and Holder been so unwilling to admit they don’t have the legal authority to commit cold-blooded murder?

It’s just that simple.

But Rand Paul was measured in his chiding – far more than I would be.

He was statesmanlike.

Rand Paul is quite simply a very different kind of leader than we have seen in Washington in some time.

There was no partisanship in him. He said he would followed the same course and made the same arguments if George W. Bush were still in power and holding out the possibility of using drones to kill American citizens. I don’t think there is anyone who doubts his sincerity on that statement.
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