Top words describing Clinton,Trump and Bush

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These are the top six words that come immediately to the mind of voters when they think of these three:

Clinton	Trump	Bush
liar (178)	arrogant (58)	Bush (136)
dishonest (123)	blowhard (38)	family (70)
untrustworthy (93)	idiot (35)	honest (53)
experience (82)	businessman (34)	weak (45)
strong (59)	clown (34)	brother (41)
Bill (56)	honest (30)	dynasty (40)

Read the entire list  and results of the Quinnipiac University Poll taken the week of August 20-25 describing Clinton, Trump and Bush.

Trump still ahead in Florida

Quinnipiac University’s new poll shows the following:

Donald Trump @ 28%
Dr. Ben Carson @16%
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio @14%
Jeb Bush @12%

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Some favorites from last Night's Debate

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Did you watch the debate?

A few of my favorites of the night--

Marco Rubio
When he actually got a chance to answer a question, he was sharp, concise and not afraid of  Donald Trump.  "The one thing that the federal government must do -- the one thing that only the federal government can do -- is keep us safe. And a president better be up-to-date on those issues on his first day in office, on her first day in office." When he speaks, you trust him as a leader and know that he will be a sensational president.  Rubio, with a BA from U of Florida later said "Go Gators" showing that he had loyalty to his school and that there was another dimension to him--he could break out from his serious side. He talked about immigration saying we must secure our border, the physical border, with a wall. "We also need to have an entry/exit tracking system. 40 percent of the people who come here illegally come legally, and then they overstay the visa. We also need a mandatory e-verify system."

Chris Christie
Recounting his experience on terrorism and telling us that his wife worked two block from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, he will be tough on ISIS and the policy with Iran and expressed his regard for Israel. I liked him because he went after Hillary, not fellow Republicans. He told the American people that he would be working for them and you believed him. He also had great humor.

Carly Fiorina
Saying that one of the benefits of a presidential campaign is that the character and capability, judgment and temperament of every single one of us is revealed over time and under pressure, she handled herself with authority. She, too, is not afraid of bullies saying that Trump was a good entertainer. "You know what a leader does? They challenge the status quo, they solve problems that have festered for a long time and they produce results. That is what my whole life has been about. People know this is about far more than replacing a D with an R." She was serious and sharp.

Jeb Bush
I never thought that Jeb would shine but last night he did.  He was a great governor for Florida. He said that the next president of the United States is going to have to fix an extraordinary difficult situation. "This administration, with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, has created insecurity the likes of which we never would've imagined. There's not a place in the world where we're better off today than six and a half years ago."

I also liked Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal who speaks from the heart and says what everyone is thinking but won't say and I thought Lindsey Graham did really well. CNN knocked Donald Trump out of the ballgame.

Who impressed you the most?

Quote of the Day - Rush Limbaugh

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“There is no assimilation. There is no melding, or melting pot if you will. There is a purposeful balkanization going on brought to you by the modern-day Democrat Party and specifically Barack Hussein O.

You have Mexican-Americans. You have Hispanic-Americans. We have gay Americans. We have LGBT Americans. We have Muslim-Americans. ‘Americans’ is always second. The ethnicity is always number one and the modern-day Democratic Party wants it that way because they think America needs to be punished because we’ve been too big for our britches. We’ve been too big. We’ve been too powerful. And we have acquired our power in ill-gotten ways. We stole it. We stole our resources from other people and other countries. It’s absurd and it’s obscene."

~ Rush Limbaugh

Hitting back at those criticizing GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump for challenging his opponent, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), for not speaking English to a press gaggle earlier this week.

Jeb Bush

Debbie just keeps "doin it."

Sunshine State News: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. The DNC chairwoman keeps trashing former Gov.Jeb Bush, saying he is wrong for America. Wasserman-Schultz is a strong voice for liberals but people are tired of negative politics.

Speaking at FIU, she started off with the “blaming Bush” syndrome and blamed George W. Bush for all of the nation’s woes. “I expect as time goes by Americans are going to have an opportunity to see the results of Jeb's policies as they were in Florida,” Wasserman Schultz said. Maybe not -- since Jeb’s record far outpaces Wasserman Schultz’s, says Sunshine State News.

Some of the things that Jeb Bush enacted while Governor of Florida:

He cut taxes by 19 billion dollars.
Overhauled the medicaid system in an attempt to rein in health care costs...Obamacare before there was Obamacare.
He created the first school voucher program. An advocate of school choice and charter Schools.
Ended Affirmative Action with One Florida. Affirmative action is a diversity that discriminates by ignoring hard work and performance.
Worked with Feds to preserve the Everglades and dedicated over 1 million acres of land for conservation.
Florida had the highest bond rating ever. Reserves went from $1.3 billion to $9.8 billion.
One of Florida staunchest opponents of offshore drilling. He did not oppose it in other areas of the country and said in 2013 that federal lands and water should be open for drilling in a "thoughtful way."

He won total control over judicial nominations
Reinstated the feeding tube for Terri Schiavo. This was a case that dragged on from 1990 until 2005 when a judge ordered the feeding tub removed. I remember how I felt then, and to this day I can't get myself to sign a Living Will.
He approved a "Choose Life" license plate recognizing the importance of life in the womb.
Tough on criminals. Backed a mandatory sentence for criminals using guns. Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law a series of bills bringing back the three strikes law that was struck down by a Florida appeals court earlier in 2002.
In 2005, he signed the "Stand your Ground" law by protecting people's rights to protect themselves.

How Caitlyn Jenner, Hillary, Bush and Rubio compare

A little trivia for the day:

According to George Bennett at The Post on Poltiics, Jenner’s net favorable score of +4 is roughly on par with the favorability score Florida voters give presidential contenders Marco Rubio (+5), Jeb Bush (+2) and Hillary Clinton (+2).

Failed Dreamers

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Photo: Palm Beach Post, 2003
A bunch of convicted felons

This has to be one of the more interesting photos in recent years that was just revived today in the Post in their article entitled Biotech Bonanza didn't go as planned. Scripps just has not cut the mustard as Jeb Bush had hoped and that all the above "dreamers"and schemers had promised when they had no trouble spending $579 million of state ($310 million) and Palm Beach County ($269 million)  to create a promise of 50,000 jobs. This reminds me of the dreamers (visionaries) behind the Park of Commerce although Scripps and the bio-tech industry is on a much larger scale and so are the tax payer dollars.

If you consider this bunch in the photo above,

Addie Greene resigned from the PB County Commission supposedly for health reasons but her vote on the local Scripps project was swayed by 5 million dollars in pledges to a foundation. Click here... to read about the bribe.

Warren Newell, plead guilty to corruption for honest services fraud, collecting $500K from schemes in which his partners profited from his votes as a commissioner, sentenced to 5 years in prison which was reduced by 2 years for cooperating on convicting Mary McCarty. At one time, Lake Worth's City Manager Michael Bornstein was his aide.

Tony Masilotti plead guilty to corruption for honest services fraud for $9M in cash and real estate, sentenced to 5 years in prison, 2 years probation, forfeiture of $175K in cash and land worth $9M.

Mary McCarty plead guilty to corruption and taking free resort stays and steering bond sales to her husband, sentenced to 3.5 years. Her husband served 8 months.

And then we have
Jeb Bush in 2004 was all gung-ho on bio-techs locating here in Florida, directed the Florida pension fund, which then held $102 billion in state workers’ retirement money, to set aside $1 billion as venture funding for tech start-ups. Bush invoked his oft-repeated pitch that luring Scripps would bring high-risk, high-reward entrepreneurs — “dreamers,” he called them, per the Post article.

Source: Click here... to read a Chronology of Corruption and Remediation in Palm Beach County.

Quote of the Day - Jeb Bush

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"Fashionable ideas and opinions - which these days can be a religion all by itself - have got a problem with Christians and their right of conscience. ...That makes it our problem, and the proper response is a forthright defense of the first freedom in our Constitution.

The progressive political agenda is ready for its next great leap forward, and religious people or churches are getting in the way. Our friends on the left like to view themselves as the agents of change and reform, and you and I are supposed to just get with the program.."

~ Jeb Bush 

Jeb Bush gave the commencement speech last Saturday to 34,000 students at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University

Quinnipiac Poll Florida Race

April 2, 2015 - Bush Slips In Florida, Stalls In Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds; E-Mails Or Not, Dems Love Clinton
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the front-runner in a possible 2016 presidential primary in Florida, but he is slipping there and stalled in two other key swing states, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is moving up and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is back in the pack.

Despite the firestorm over her use of e-mails as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton holds commanding leads, with 48 to 65 percent of Democrats in each state, topping her nearest challenger by 3-1 to 6-1, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. The Swing State Poll focuses on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania because since 1960 no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states. Click the pdf file above to read the rest.

Floridians split between Bush and Rubio

"The poll shows Rubio in good shape if he decides to run for the Senate again instead of the presidency, with 52 percent saying they will or probably will vote for him while 37 percent say they won’t or are leaning against him. Rubio does very well with Florida Republicans as 87 percent say they will vote for him or probably will support him if he runs for a second Senate term," according to Sunshine State News.

Read more... at Polling Institute Saint Leo University.

Next Republican Candidates?

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There has been so much discussion on who will be running for President in the Republican Party. So many names have been tossed out there for us to consider--Rasmussen has the primary polls as Mitt Romney, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Rand Paul. Other polls show Scott Walker, Paul Ryan (it's his birthday today!), Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bob Portman and others.

My Prediction:

Although I am crazy about Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and I love Ben Carson, and there are many more Republicans testing the waters, those who I believe will take the step to be our next president, will be:

Jeb Bush...middle of the road and out of step even though he did a good job as Governor of Florida. His advocacy for Common Core and his stand on illegal immigration will hurt him. Those are issues supported by Obama.

Mike Huckabee...Straight shooter and good guy who shines the light on it all. I like his positions on just about everything.

Rand Paul...I like a lot of his ideas especially wanting to cut corporate tax in half to create millions of jobs but I still can't quite figure him out. He is a dove in a violent world.

Mitt Romney...He was right when he said in 2012:  "We have a choice of two paths: Obama or prosperity." He should have been our president.  I think that the Republicans might just nominate him.  Three strikes and finally out?

Let's go with Marco Rubio--young, fresh and right and bright. You can't win the Party nomination by moving to the middle or acting like a Democrat.

What do you all think? When I bet, I usually lose.

Common Core may be Jeb Bush's Achilles Heel

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With Jeb Bush's support of Common Core in Education be his downfall for a presidential bid?

Dr. Karen Effrem of Florida Stop Common Core Coalition says, “We’re not too excited about him running for president because of his major support for Common Core, which he’s not backing off of and his family’s legacy of increasing the federal footprint ... and federal control over education,” she told Sunshine State News.

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Jeb Bush might run for President

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Jeb Bush Steals a March on the Other 2016 GOP Hopefuls
By Jeff Henderson

By announcing he was "actively exploring" running for president, Jeb Bush stole a march on other Republicans looking at 2016. There will be two Republican primaries in 2016. One will feature the darlings of the Republican establishment like Bush, Mitt Romney and Chris Christie. The other will be a showdown to see who leads conservatives. If the establishment is divided with too many candidates, a strong conservative can win the nomination. 

It is apparent that the Republican Party is divided.  We need a strong conservative to lead our nation.  Jeb Bush is liberal on Education and Illegal Immigration. The Republican Party has moved to the right since George W. Bush as the result of Obama and his socialist policies and unsustainable debt.

Stumping for Scott

Florida - The Illegal Alien

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One of the main reasons that I am ticked off at Rick Scott--Click here...

Marco Rubio might be "curtains;" I have always liked him too. Jeb Bush is very possibly "curtains" with all that love stuff.  These guys shouldn't even think about running for president of the United States unless they come up with a different message that someone might believe regarding illegal immigration. And Rick Scott should have read what the conservative majority thinks about illegal immigration.

In 2008, Florida's illegal immigrant population of an estimated 950,000 persons costs state taxpayers more than $3.8 billion per year. The $3.8 billion annual price tag covers only the costs of K-12 education, medical care and incarceration of illegal aliens who have committed other crimes in Florida. According to the latest analysis by FAIR, the costs to Floridians more than doubled between 2005 and 2008. The data in this study clearly establish that the fiscal burden on Floridians like the size of the illegal alien population has been rising rapidly. The outlay of $3.8 billion annually translates into a fiscal burden of about $678 for each Florida household headed by a native-born resident.

But then we get into college state tuition for "Dreamers." According to Examinor.com, the cost to the U.S. taxpayer to subsidize the tuition of the approximately 1.23 million illegal aliens who would benefit from the DREAM Act over the first two years of its enactment, would be $19,207,500,000.

Although Obama says he deports around 400,000 illegals every year, the facts state that of the 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the country, fewer than 70,000 who have led generally peaceful lives here were deported last year."  For those doing the math, that works out to about .00583 percent says Numbers USA. 

There has to be consequences for illegal acts and where it's felt is in the wallet. That wallet should be theirs, not ours.

Donald Trump Speaks Out

Net Worth: $2.9 Billion

Donald Trump's Annual Salary: $60 Million

Marco Rubio on "Act of Love"

Quote of the Day - Jeb Bush

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"The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally ... and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work, to be able to provide for their family, yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony...it's an act of love.

~ Jeb Bush

Talking about illegal immigration and said on Fox News this past Sunday. He just blew his chances for 2016.

Is there another surge on the horizon of illegal immigration?  Click here to find out.

Jeb does Debbie

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Even Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doesn't like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz