RAND PAUL DISCUSSES KIM DAVIS ISSUE - SAME SEX MARRIAGE
RAND PAUL DISCUSSES KIM DAVIS ISSUE -
SAME SEX MARRIAGE
Senator Rand Paul discusses Kim Davis and same sex marriage issues, he addressed the “return of the Cheney’s,” as Jeb Bush’s campaign amasses copious amounts of money. While on a book tour, Cheney voiced the idea of putting 10,000 American boots on the ground to defeat ISIS. Paul quickly responded, “I think Dick Cheney has probably been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision over the last 20 or 30 years.”
Senator Paul referenced Cheney’s prediction that Americans would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq and asserted, “what Dick Cheney promotes as far as boots on the ground everywhere all the time is it’s been a disaster for this country.” Paul contrasted his views with Cheney’s, suggesting the first 10,000 boots on the ground ought to be Arab boots on the ground; according to the Kentucky senator, Saudi Arabia treats the United States army as its own, an idea Paul finds “very objectionable.”
Paul also addressed the latest controversy regarding Jeb Bush speaking Spanish at a high school in Florida earlier this week, which the senator brushed off as “not that big a deal.” At the same time, however, Paul advocated for “melting into the pot,” and voiced concerns regarding immigrants who want to be part of America, but also remain fully part of another culture. Ingraham suggested Jeb’s courting of the Hispanic community by speaking in Spanish confirms immigrants today are not assimilating, as they did in previous generations. Paul dismissed this, claiming Jeb’s Spanish and assimilation are separate issues.
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with a lot to get to hear on the Laura Ingraham show and delighted to be joined
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by my friend Senator Rand Paul the great state of Kentucky he joins us now
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senator great to talk to my friend how are you
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very good law thanks for having absolutely so I know you've said a few
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things about this particular case but first for someone like you who is really
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really loathe to give the government more power especially to compel
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individuals against their individual beliefs recognized and protected by the
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constitution where do you come out on this particular case the real problem
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here is that people want to impose their viewpoint on someone else do you want to
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convince people that same-sex marriages ok having persuasions better than using
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coercion and they're so this lady who is the clerk has a religious objection and
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I think we are honored that religious objection and there's another way around
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this he's actually said she was filed on contract why can't they just let
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somebody else notarized contract what do they have to have her sign something
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that she has a religious objection to being a sort of people who are
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intolerant of others beliefs and I think that's a real problem I i I have a
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Syrian that this is just kind of a shot across the bow this is this is basically
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a case that is getting a lot of publicity for obvious reasons cameras
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follow the couple's when they go in there and I think it's it's a warning to
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other people you will do this or else and that's my issue may have a lot of
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friends who happen to be gay and there they got married in their old friends of
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mine and I love them they're wonderful people but this is just a question about
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constitutional rights and that are that are guaranteed that just weren't
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discovered in the constitution by the Supreme Court that are guaranteed and so
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what happens to military chaplains what happens in other closely held
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corporations where individuals are asked to do things will the government be used
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to basically bring everybody in line 282 conformity on this that's what concerns
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yes really the problem with federalized
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saying this and trying to divide this as some certain your constitutional rights
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is that will churches before souvenirs and this will a church school dormitory
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before still have women Tories for same-sex couples and when they find that
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religiously you know to be an opposition coalition so you know this is the whole
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problem with making this a national things should have always been a local
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issue our founding fathers do not go to washington DC's for a marriage license
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then went to the local courthouse and I think what's gonna come of this is the
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only way out and then another supreme court case which is not gonna happen
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anytime in the near future is what I think states and localities are going to
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opt out of the marriage business this is what's happening in Alabama and I just
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push comes to shove that's what's gonna happen here is what happened they said
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were severely licenses my guess is they'll change the law to say don't have
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to sign the white sands although there are no real public but in general public
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in China widened to force this woman the sign something just to prove to her that
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she has to bend her religious beliefs to your beliefs and services and
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intolerance on the part of those who wanna for sure to sign this senator paul
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you're down in single digits in the RealClearPolitics national average and I
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you get you get good crowds I get emails from friends of mine who are in the
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audience out and Washington State and going to places that a lot of candidates
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won't go or or they are maybe even afraid to go what do you have to do to
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kind of turn up the heat and turn up the numbers here it's obviously not polls
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are polls and it's a snapshot I understand that but I you're obviously
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not where you want to be at this juncture so what next 30 we're talking
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about laura is reading this online always have no evidence or facts to
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support it
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who we go and everywhere I've gone especially since the debates doubled and
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tripled you were having crowds and seven hundred to a thousand on and 8:30 in the
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morning on a weekday when people at work so we're where we had big crowds
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throughout the Northwest big crowds and South Carolina and so it really is a
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little bit perplexing to me
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number one thing about the coles is that where you are
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ask them right now two-thirds of the people say they're undecided and then a
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pollster pushes them to make a decision so really this is the poll of the
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undecided and navy of non-voters and so in the end I think things will show that
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over time the one thing we do take solace in as far as the polling goes at
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this point is that we leave here in five states one by President Obama that's
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what I've been trying to point out that I'm a different kind of Republican won
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an appeal to young voters but also one who's willing to take the vote and
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appeal to nontraditional voters african-americans asian-americans
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hispanic-americans you name it I'm going to take over and try to get some code
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for republicans that we've been losing are you are you speaking Spanish on the
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trail at all I was very much dennis is so bad and people are asking you not to
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speak and it's best that I can speak a little bit and it helped me when I was
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down in Guatemala
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order to communicate with patients and they're not spending at least it's a
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little better than our friend rather than hey do you know everybody treats
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frenchtown the rich French and Creole heard about five or six praises of
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friends and i would tell a patient to do it that they never ever responded to my
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phrases either my French pronunciation is awful which is possible for my
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patience or hard-of-hearing or both I'm not sure about I didn't have much
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success of my friends in Haiti there there's obviously there's a little
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dust-up over the way to approach voters today and whether we're we're really
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requiring assimilation of people in the united states are or whether there are
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many especially on the left but some up some on the right I think as well have
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no problem with kind of a separatist understanding that allowed to jail and
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certain immigrant communities you see that to some extent and run a religious
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basis happening and in places like minneapolis of the somalis it kinda
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state-by-state the smallest a with the somalis and I get that but in jobs out
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there in miami the other day and he was speaking in Spanish and the reaction has
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been something that the folks on the left senator parlor are thrilled with
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this
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people like the MSNBC crowd it gets to the embarrassing fact that the vast
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majority of Americans don't speak a second language you overseas people P
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speak Spanish and English you speak French and English right some of us can
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be a Sikh American what's your sense about this is this really what we should
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be doing as speaking in Spanish two people to get their point across that we
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all need to aspire to I do speak Spanish pretty well but we may have overplayed
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but I think your point on the simulation is an important one and you have a good
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friend who came here in his parents were from Central America and then one of the
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parent from South America and he told me growing up my mother told me we speak
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Spanish at home but we want to be successful in america as we speak
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English when we're outside them to make sure English is good and to make sure we
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can do well in america and I think assimilation is an amazing thing a good
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example of how even in our country
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assimilation didn't happen and it's been a disaster for the people has been the
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Native American population on the reservations if they were assimilated
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within a decade they're probably doing this well as the rest of us but instead
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seclusion and isolating them we took their land and then we put him on a
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small piece of land that they don't do very well what do you think he's getting
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out i mean he's getting a lot of praise from all this kind of cool people and
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mainstream liberal media for this what what what's going on here I don't know I
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think if some of the criticism I think been overblown and some of the
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supportive and overblown I'm not that big a deal on whether or not you speak
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to an audience in Spanish I don't think it's a big deal
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confirming the point that a lot of people who are here who've come here
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many of them come illegally selling I mean I don't know how many poor legal or
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illegal is talking to have no idea of it doesn't that kinda confirm the point
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that it's different from previous generations are not assimilating in fact
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it's so bad that you have to campaign in Spanish with these two different points
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I think you can arrest age you know speaking of people in Spanish I spoke to
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this panic Chamber of Commerce about a year ago
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and I did a couple of opening lines and Spanish and bad my Spanish was different
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and then but we also talked about how assimilation when you bring some of the
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different cultural influences from your country and you make them part of the
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greater american way that is you know they're different trades people from you
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know Latin America Romance languages know that bring to america we are
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seeking extra melting pot of a lot of things they do agree with your point we
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melt into the part and you bring your cultural attributes and you try to make
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america better place and we do offer but if you come in you stay separate and you
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say that we're going to adhere to a lot particularly the thing with some of
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those who come here actually taking the girls back to parts of the Middle East
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and genital mutilation which is almost hard to talk about this like that kinda
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stuff is not assimilation and that's child abuse and so the thing is we do
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what people want to come to America to be part of it but I don't want people
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who want to come to America and then the top part another I'm not absolutely into
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the american culture what do you make of the return of the cheney's as jeb this
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obviously amassing a huge amount of money that Cheney's role in their book
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tour and pretty good appearances here on CNN and Fox and arguing for much more
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muscular foreign policy at one point yesterday entertaining the idea of
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10,000 American troops on the ground trying to defeat Isis if that's what it
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takes what's your reaction to that changed by the wrong almost every
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foreign policy decision of the last twenty or thirty years he thought we did
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create as liberators in Iraq the only time he was actually write about
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something foreign policies we advise the first George Bush the taking baghdad
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would lead to chaos of war and destabilize the region and that's
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ultimately what happened we are a disaster in Iraq disaster in Syria
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goes after and Libya but all from sort of the notions Dick Cheney and his
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friends have put forward that America should be involved everywhere all the
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time in really the one true thing in the Middle East
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and again and again as it will be topple secular strongman what we get is chaos
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on the rise of radical Islam show no I think what to change from Eric's as far
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as boots on the ground everywhere all the time there's been a disaster for
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this country and it's it's everything that I oppose the one thing that I wanna
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be mentioning in making a point of their date is it I am different and I am the
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one who's not sending our young men and women back into the Middle East for
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another ten or fifteen year war there
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the boots on the ground and Pierre boots on the ground and instead of Dick Cheney
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when you send americans there ought to be advocating is what i'm advocating the
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first 10,000 boots in every battle over there need to be from Saudi Arabia tired
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of providing great well to them big storm at radical Islam around the world
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and even in our country and yet there I'm going to try and that they think we
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are army and I find that very objectionable what about the rules
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change that allows now Carly Fiorina to be on the stage for debate
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any reaction to two that I guess it's gonna be a plus one now looks like you
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will not be on that prime-time stage most likely it's not determined yet but
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no I think we will be part of the main debate and I think that's a good thing
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and I'm not sure if I have strong do you know who else is on stage but I don't
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get to make the rules for the media and I think it'd be nice if we're looking at
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polling data also look at which candidates do best against the democrats
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could you might have someone reading Republican beauty contest to actually
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does newsroom against the democrats and that might be or are to be part of the
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calculations and who we have a nominee interesting it's a really interesting
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idea so match head-to-head vs Hillary by whomever and see who already have a lot
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of that data they do that it holds and that's actually our strong suit is that
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we do better against Hillary Clinton than any other candidate we actually
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leader in Pennsylvania where Republicans haven't won since 1988 and think we we
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try to do that by being someone who is steadfast in principles and believes in
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lacrosse team member also take that message you know to the south side of
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Chicago and Philadelphia and two different places
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and says you know what we want you to be in our party and here's why
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outreach appealing to people's you know substantive and principles sensibilities
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vs on identity politics has always been what conservatives should do when reagan
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did it took his message everyone could debate anywhere
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anyone anywhere anytime and that's how you when people are very much ready for
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it because what i'm planning streets were saying to me you know particularly
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african-american leaders saying you know what I'm not sure if any other democrat
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policies have really ever helped us and they take us for granted they don't come
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to our part of town because it involves no Democrat and then trying to
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republicans don't come because they gave up decades ago and so when I'm in the
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south side of Chicago and Detroit people are happy to see you there and they are
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open and their vote is not a guarantee for the democrats it will be a candidate
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who would take to talk about school choice who would go to them and talk
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about criminal justice reform movement go and talk to them about how we're
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going to resurrect your community by leaving more money to traumatic targeted
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tax cuts for those who live in Palo love having you want thank you so much best
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of luck out there please keep keep in touch with us along the way any updates
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with love having from you thanks so much
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