Ah, election season. Whatever some of you guys did in my thread late last November threw off my concentration, but for my part, I’m already under the assumption that all bets are off. Certain world leaders’ plans have started to unfold, and I’ve included some key tidbits of info for my main associates nowadays, perhaps warranting some new attention out of my humble corner of the world.:
Public Policy Polling: Ted Cruz most popular in Texas
Politico: Ted Cruz faces 2016 skeptics in South Carolina
As the population shifts filter into this country, Ted Cruz looks to be one of the most recognized names, at least in my home state.:
• 47% approval vs. 35% disapproval in general
• 25% of Republican primary voters favoring him for President vs. 14% for Jeb Bush, 10% for Governor Rick Perry and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, 5% for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and 4% for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Florida Senator Marco Rubio
• 23% in favor of a Rick Perry run in 2016 vs. 66% believing he should sit 2016 out
• 50% support for something known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, meaning equal pay for equal work between men and women, vs. 30% opposition
• 34-35% of Republicans in total bolstering Paycheck Fairness Act support
If numbers and rallies reflect mood, then South Carolina’s activists might need more than a few questions as President Barack Obama’s administration continues lurching everywhere. Certain establishment figures among that state’s Republicans stress that they’re not completely certain about the good senator’s coalition-building capabilities just yet, while Cruz himself wants to emphasize his general stance from illegal immigration to ObamaCare. Other visits have popped up, from Iowa to Florida, but certain political junkies might have their eyes turned beyond the current 2016 presidential lineup.:
Indianapolis Star: Gov. Mike Pence for President in 2016?
Houston Chronicle: Julian Castro, Dan Patrick slug it out over immigration
Dissatisfaction could be plain if the aforementioned names exhaust each other in the coming months, and for Governor Mike Pence’s part, he doesn’t want to set up a run just yet, either. The Heritage Foundation has noted his past appearances, and an advisor recently departed to take up political consultation… with the Governor of Indiana as a likely client. One might get the idea that Pence’s deliberately keeping himself out of the running in order to let more high-profile names drift toward him in case the others run out of energy, time, or both, but also surprise people across this country, and on the other hand, he could make others aware enough to keep him in mind as a vice-presidential candidate alongside the eventual presidential nominee, thereby pushing the course of the Republican Party that much closer to cohesion by 2016. My home state could also cheer any solutions proposed by the candidates to become Lieutenant Governor, and I would admire the approach taken by Dan Patrick: broadening the debate, “which was slated as exclusively over immigration”, to incorporate abortion and ObamaCare in an overarching agenda of sorts, so that if nothing else, activists and experts nationwide might have an idea or two for maintaining this course of improvement. To be fair, the Univision debate
didn’t entail runs for office, but I would note the exchange of ideas to be taken up by other candidates down the road, but if events inside this country can keep us steady, then events outside this country look to take a far eerier turn.:
Daily Beast: Eli Lake: Sorry, Snowden: Putin Lied to You About His Surveillance State—and Made You a Pawn of It
USA Today: Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine
Washington Post: Diplomats reach deal on defusing Ukraine crisis
These last three headlines popped up in the last few hours, and the Twitter reactions in the case of the second were all too instantaneous, and justifiably so, I might think. I caught news about the supposed broadcast earlier this morning, and the setup against the President of the United States looks to be as deliberate as we might expect. The Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service haven’t wasted too much time sniping and provoking their way through Ukraine’s easternmost regions, and the International Eurasian Movement was all too happy to piggyback on their – and, by extension, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s – networks, as it might have been this entire time. Whereas we have court records and authorization, the Russians apparently don’t, and incredibly, even various journalists were happy to reward whatever campaigns have been up and running, via Pulitzers. If that wasn’t enough, some Jewish communities might now be in the crosshairs of any spies manufacturing the turbulence in that corner of the world. Denis Pushilin, purported to be the one in charge of whatever regime has been set up in Donetsk, signed his name on the leaflets in question, which were handed to Jews leaving synagogues after Passover commemorations, all under threat of either revoked citizenship, deportation, or asset confiscation. It was up to Secretary of State John Kerry to call this incident “grotesque”, and the references to 1939 could speak for themselves, which can’t help the most recent agreement to disarm the aforementioned groups much. The idea is to withdraw those groups from the streets, squares, and public places they occupied and grant amnesty to anyone other than individuals “found guilty of capital crimes”, but I’m not holding my breath. These Eurasianists, championed by one Alexander Dugin, want that project of theirs to extend from at least Berlin all the way eastward to Vladivostok, something with even more territory than the old Soviet Union, a second terror-sponsoring cult using the network(s) built by the first one to take control of Russia. If Ted Cruz and other high-profile Republicans already spoke in favor of escalated sanctions against Russia’s oligarchy, then the Eurasianists certainly add a completely new angle to that country’s course since that fateful Christmas back in 1991, setting up an even bigger mess in due time, I think.