pacino wrote:Trump's base appears to be NYC-based extras

Asked if Trump paid anyone to attend the event, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said "no"

TomatoPie wrote:Rand Paul has a 15% batshart-crazy component, but he has a good tax overhaul plan:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/blow-up-the ... 1434582592

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:Rand Paul has a 15% batshart-crazy component, but he has a good tax overhaul plan:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/blow-up-the ... 1434582592

flat taxes are not a good tax plan

Earlier Tuesday, the same judge sentenced Morsi to life in prison over charges of conspiring with foreign groups, including Hamas. That sentence also can be appealed.

Al-Shami also confirmed death sentences against 16 others, including three jailed senior Brotherhood members. The other 13 were tried in absentia, including Sondos Asem, a Morsi aide, and the only woman to receive the death sentence in the slew of trials since 2013.

NYTimes wrote:The campaigns of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul got donations from the leader of an extremist group tied to Dylann Roof

drsmooth wrote:

NYTimes wrote:The campaigns of Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul got donations from the leader of an extremist group tied to Dylann Roof

well, of course they did

So how many Republicans has Holt given money to? Oh, quite a few.

In 2004, he gave to Bush/Cheney '04.

He skipped '06 and '08, but in 2010 the recipients of his donations included Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Rob Portman, and Ron Johnson.

In 2012, recipients included Romney, Cruz, Santorum, and Paul as well as Steve King, Louie Gohmert, Michele Bachmann, Dean Heller, Linda McMahon, George Allen, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, and Pete Hoekstra. Oh, and, oddly, two African-American candidates, Allen West and Mia Love.

In 2014, recipients included Gohmert, King, Love, Bachmann, West, Johnson, and Cruz again, as well as Joni Ernst, Tom Cotton, Thom Tillis, Ben Sasse, Tom Emmer, Mark Sanford, and Paul Broun.

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:I'm certain the left attracts loons and their money from the hard left as well, so to blame the republicans for getting money from whackos isn't entirely fair

but that said if the GOP really wants to start appealing to minorities then they really have to put their foot down and shake these groups off and start using language that doesn't dance around racial issues.