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For all the popularity of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential primary races, the biggest recipient of individual campaign money from Kentuckians last year was a home-state favorite: Rand Paul.

According to new figures posted Monday on the Federal Election Commission’s website, Kentucky residents have donated a total of $1.39 million to candidates for president through Dec. 31.

The above quote is from Matt Kibbe, formerly of Freedom Works and now with the SupePAC Concerned American Voters supporting Rand.  Kibbe goes on to say that Rand's Iowa vote was actually "very credible considering where he has been."

Interesting comment about Cruz background and training as a "classical liberal" but Kibbe is concerned about Cruz being a neocon. http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/02/rand-paul-campaign-superpac-speak-on-iow.

CAV is sticking with Rand.

ABC News has announced the criteria for its Republican presidential debate (link is external) before the New Hampshire primary (link is external).

The faceoff between the GOP (link is external) presidential hopefuls is slated for Feb. 6 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Here are the three different ways candidates can gain an invitation for the debate stage:

So The Daily Show is now apparently following in Fox's footsteps by replacing 5th place Rand with 6th place Jeb. So much for that man crush Noah supposedly had. Hypocrites of 2012.

Back on September 30, 2008, Donald Trump was asked by CNN's Kiran Chetry what he thought of the plan to bail out failing banks. What he told her: 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/04/20/naturally_trump_supported_t...

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday accused front-runner Donald Trump of having “no clue” about the nation’s nuclear delivery capability.

Read More  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263863-paul-trump...

Poor Ben is maybe justifiably peeved at the cheating, whether he is sincere or not in his high dudgeon! I say 'Welcome to Ron Paul's world, Ben... it is the battlefield of liberty in a new age of Fascism! What did you expect from a party whose 'elephant in the room' is the openly declared 'reject the constitution'.

The GOP is choosing open fascists and oath breakers, no longer ashamed to ignore constitutional limits, believing they now exist autonomous from the very document which creates the office!

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Yesterday was Ron and Carol’s 58th wedding anniversary.

"Ideas are stronger than armies.  I think the idea of liberty lives on in you, in us.  We will continue to fight.  Tonight is the beginning.  Liberty will live on.  We fight on.  Thank you for all your support"

"I was reasonably happy today until I discovered the dirty tricks that were going on," Carson told his supporters.

"And people spreading rumors that I had dropped out and that people should caucus for somebody else," he continued. "I mean, do you think that that is something that's acceptable?"

Protest from 2/1/16

Protest 2/1/16

The Burns 4 are on LIVE as I type this.  It's a new channel, and pretth cool.