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Number of days Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), “who is flirting with a presidential run, spent in places other than Louisiana in 2014. “In 2013, he was gone about 74 days,” the Baton Rouge Advocate reports. “Only one of those trips seems to have been for official state business — an economic development foray to Asia.”
An ‘air of inevitability’ should be a good thing, right? It’s in the superhero toolbox, right next to the cloak of invisibility and hammer of invincibility. So why do journalists treat it like kryptonite?
— Ana Marie Cox, writing in the Daily Beast.
From the time he was 9 years old, he was influenced by Frank Marshall Davis, who was a communist.
— Former New York Gov. Rudy Giuliani, doubling down on his claims that President Obama doesn’t “love America” in an interview with the New York Post — “claiming the commander-in-chief has been influenced by communists since his youth.” Giuliani also said another bad influence on Obama was Saul Alinsky, a community organizer whom the ex-mayor called a ‘socialist.’
I don’t question his motives. And I try not to question the president’s motives as being a good American or a bad American.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by CNN, on whether President Obama loves America.
I’ve never asked the President so I don’t really know what his opinions are on that one way or another.”
— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, sought to stay out of the uproar over former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comments about President Barack Obama and love of country, saying those two could speak for themselves.
It’s of course very early in the 2016 cycle. But it’s never too early for some healthy alarm. Are we the only ones who are struck that many of the leading Republican candidates, whether moderate or conservative, seem to be planning stale and tired campaigns? Hillary will herself, it’s safe to predict, run a stale campaign with tired themes. But the polls suggest she would prevail in a conventional matchup of boring campaigns. We’re all free to ignore the fire bell in the night, and hope for the best. But it would be a shame to have to explain in November 2016 how the Republican party decided to sleepwalk to defeat.
— Bill Kristol, writing in the Weekly Standard.
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Of New Hampshire Republicans and independents likely to vote in next year’s GOP presidential primary say it doesn’t matter that Gov. Scott Walker (R) didn’t graduate college, and that he’s qualified to be the next president, according to a new NH1 News Poll.
