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Mitch Perry Report for 10.20.16 — #Badhombres

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Donald Trump enjoyed mocking Hillary Clinton earlier this week for all the time she’s taken off the campaign trail recently, but with all three debates now history, it’s clear she knew exactly she was doing — working to be totally prepared for these debates. I know folks like to lower the bar considerably when grading how well Trump performed in these encounters, but the fact is Clinton has been sharper and better prepared in all three, and they really could be the deciding…

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Mitch Perry Report for 1.22.16 — Conservative intelligentsia makes last-ditch effort to dump Trump

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Who says that Donald Trump doesn’t bring people together? In what could very well be something The Nation magazine might publish next January if Trump runs the table to become our 45th president, the National Review’s newest edition contains a scathing editorial blasting the GOP front-runner, calling him a “menace to conservatism,” and contains short essays by 22 “prominent” conservative thinkers critical of Trump’s candidacy. I use parenthesis in describing the contributors to the conservative bible, because, well, one of them is…

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Mitch Perry Report for 5.5.15 –Hillary Clinton takes on the Jeb & the GOP on immigration

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Hillary Clinton is in Las Vegas today, where she will reportedly call for a path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., reviving the 2013 legislation that was co-sponsored by Marco Rubio in the Senate — before he walked away from it. She will say that the standard for a true solution is nothing less than “a full and equal path to citizenship,” a Clinton aide tells The Wall Street Journal. “She will say that…

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Jeb Bush & Marco Rubio: A love that dare not speak its name

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From Esquire: Be warned, Florida: According to a Bush, your presumptive GOP candidate, Marco Rubio, is the sort of guy who can look you in the eye and tell you the honest truth about where he stands. The Bush in question is your ex-guv, Jeb, but you’ll recall the last guy to earn a Bush’s trust by the mere forthrightness of his gaze: Vladimir Putin. The trust he earned was George W.’s. And what a stalwart ally Putin turned out to be. Now,…

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Jeb Bush & Marco Rubio: A love that dare not speak its name

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From Esquire: Be warned, Florida: According to a Bush, your presumptive GOP candidate, Marco Rubio, is the sort of guy who can look you in the eye and tell you the honest truth about where he stands. The Bush in question is your ex-guv, Jeb, but you’ll recall the last guy to earn a Bush’s trust by the mere forthrightness of his gaze: Vladimir Putin. The trust he earned was George W.’s. And what a stalwart ally Putin turned out to be. Now,…

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Sarah Palin weighs in on Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio

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Sarah Palin weighs in on the increasingly epic Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio race in an interview by Rich Lowry and Robert Costa for National Review. She suggests, meanwhile, that there might be encouraging news coming Marco Rubio’s way. She says she’s had a chance to look at the Crist-Rubio race “just on the surface.” But she adds, “I’m just being asked about it really in the last week or two, so I’ll dig more into it. I’ll find out…

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