First Official GOP President Announcement

Just because...

“I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.”

You've already covered this.

That has nothing to do with what I was saying nro do I really agree with that either. lol...

True. Just a reminder, lol.

The entire bit covers various facets of the contradictory arguments include abortion, the death penalty, etc. It just seemed somewhat inappropriate to post an entire bit.

The only issue atm I saw of Rand Paul's that I'm a little iffy on is privatizing all the national parks. There should be a middle ground of private ownership with certain conditions, like not tearing up the land, etc.

I'd be on board with private industries being contracted to care for national parks and overseeing the tourism in said parks vs. the government directly overseeing those things. As for straight-up selling federal land off to the highest bidder?

Sounds like a disaster.

So, are you saying that there is absolutely no funding from the federal government to fund abortion clinics?

Care to be proven wrong?

I just have to assume the goal is to not address the problem, because both parties agree that socioeconomic mobility is a key issue. If they could just agree that it's a problem and let the discussion take place of how you approach the problem instead of one party fake crying to appeal to low income voters and the other demonizing them to appeal to them and neither party doing anything... yeah, let's just continue the political theater another few decades while the middle class withers away and the poverty level envelopes anyone who doesn't own an energy company.

Media to Rand Paul: Are you going to be as mean to Hillary as you are to female reporters?

How much longer does this need to go on before the media looks overly desperate, do you think?

I mean nothing says “I’m here to shatter the glass ceiling for women” like “how dare you fail to treat me like the delicate flower that I am.”

...when don't they look overly desperate?

Everyone should be aware by now the only method politicians know how to get out of the slump is through a massive war.

Just got to wait for IS/ISIS/ISIL to get more powerful until 2017.

He's a *** to all reporters, the most recent time the reporter was female.

The article doesn't say anything about him being rude specifically to women, stop trying to inject sexism accusations, you look like a clown.

Rubio is a great name to yell really loud over loudspeakers. think like a boxing announcer.

Well, for what it's worth though, it's best any candidate get used to this now, because this is what you'll face as POTUS. The media -- right wing or left, take your pick -- will look to hop upon and twist every last thing you say.

Did you give slightly more stern inflection talking to a woman? You hate women!

Did you fail to hold your hand to your heart during the Star Spangled Banner? You unpatriotic cad!

Did you wear white after Labor Day or a bad jacket/tie/pants combination? YOU ARE TERRIBLE! (this was done successively to both Bush and Obama...wtf, people)

Did you by chance watch the video or read the transcript?

TODD:...But I think he's developing a -- he's got to be careful here. This is turning into a habit, particularly over -- this is now two prominent women interviewers

Jeez Jassik, it's almost as if you don't think sexism will replace racism this round of politics.

I think there was a prior article that did say it, or at least insinuate it.

Nausi's not wrong on this one though. The media is seriously so knee-jerk reactionary that it's hard to pick out facts from narrative half the time.

Oddly, that will probably garner him as many votes as anything else.

People cast votes for really bizarre reasons sometimes.

C'mon bro, this is a bias against anyone that isn't a democrat or liberal. Not ANYONE. The media didn't have this blind defense of Sarah Palin in 08.

Bang-a-rang Peter!

Right, he's been an *** to two prominent female interviewers, he needs to avoid creating that image. That's not an accusation, it's an observation. You're so hypersensitive to anyone making observations about your team, you're borrowing trouble and playing the victim. The media has been incredibly kind to Rand Paul considering his political hijinx and gaffs. He's given a pass because he's opposed to the drug war and commercializing criminal justice.


Before Katie Couric put her idiocy center stage, you better believe the media treated her like a limited edition mountain dew flavor.

If she wasn't so completely worthless to the country, I have no doubt they'd have continued to do lifetime movie style montages of her and her perfect hometown america family image until the end of time.

Apparently you missed the part where the rightwing media was incensed by Obama not putting down a cup of coffee to salute soldiers but they seemed to forget Bush saluting in an equally goofy fashion with dog-in-hands.

It's the media, man. They'll skewer anyone and everyone to push whatever they're selling.

So you wanted to prove me right?

Go read it again unless you're trying to make that tired argument that by funding other parts of the organization you fund abortions too, which they don't.

Wat?

Right now, in some media board room political activists are scheming how to ensure that only women are allowed to interview him over the next 19 months. The intended narrative is obvious.

Well apparently not THAT obvious, looks like it's fooled at least one person.

Man, thanks for reminding me they briefly put Baja Blast in cans and now they don't again.

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Right, it's so obvious that Roger Ailes had to spoonfeed it to all the octagenarians who seem to believe anything that confirms their victim complex.

The media is biased toward advertising dollars, not political parties.

Um, funding parts of an organization funds pretty much all of said organization, because it frees up cash to be used for its other parts.

Logic.

So, at best tax dollars help fund an organization that provides many necessary and important reproductive services, one happens to be abortions. They also perform lots of keeping fetuses alive services.

Spin it however you want to make it look more pretty. My point still stands.

I'm not the one spinning it, the government isn't "funding abortions" any more than it's "funding rape" by paying for prisons. There's one important takeaway from the planned parenthood "controversy"... You don't get to dictate what specific uses your tax dollars go to, and everyone has their own version of planned parenthood. Just accept that there are going to be things in this world that aren't pretty.