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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CHOOSE THEIR RUNNING MATES

April 14, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – U.S. Presidential Candidates don’t normally pick their vice presidential running mate until right before their party’s national convention. But 2016 is defying the odds. And Hillary Clinton has a lot to do with it.

After Clinton announced that she was running for president, the three declared Republican presidential aspirants immediately revealed their choice for vice president, all of them women.

The Republican strategy for 2016 is to attract two powerful voting blocks — Hispanics and women. It is no wonder that two of the Republican candidates are of Hispanic heritage (Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio), and that presumptive candidate Jeb Bush had tried to identify as Hispanic in his 2009 voter registration.

To complete the election strategy, the declared Republican candidates have chosen these women to be their running mates:

Ted Cruz – Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota

Rand Paul – Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

Marco Rubio – Conservative columnist Ann Coulter

Meanwhile, The Adobo Chronicles learned from informed sources that when former Florida Governor Jeb Bush finally declares his candidacy, he will also reveal his choice of vice president, conservative author and blogger, Filipina-American Michelle Malkin. His strategy seems to be going after Hispanics, women and Asians.

It makes us wonder: in a national, televised debate among all these talkative women vice presidential candidates, who will end up having the last word?

Politics

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RAND PAUL SAYS HE IS PART HISPANIC

April 13, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (The Adobo Chronicles) – It has become clear that the Republican strategy to regain The White House in the 2106 U.S. presidential elections is to field Hispanic candidates, a testament to the growing political clout of what has always been considered a minority population in the U.S.

The latest Republican to declare his candidacy for president is Marco Rubio, junior senator from Florida. He is of Cuban descent. Before him, the first to announce his candidacy was Ted Cruz, junior senator from Texas, born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.

Although Jeb Bush, former Florida governor, has not yet officially declared his candidacy, he, too, is Hispanic– a Mexican-American — according to his 2009 voter registration.

So that leaves the other declared Republic candidate, Rand Paul, junior senator from Kentucky, and the only non-Hispanic candidate thus far.

Not too fast.

Today, speaking at town hall meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, Paul told his audience that he is part Hispanic. He cited his family history, noting that the Paul family resided in Lake Jackson, Texas.

Lake Jackson is one of the nine towns comprising the coastal community of the Brazosport Area in Texas. Brazosport was part of Mexico back in the early 1800s before Samuel “Sam” Houston, American politician and soldier, defeated Mexico’s General Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto, securing the independence of Texas from Mexico.

So there you have it. Four declared (and semi-declared) Republican candidates for president. Hispanics all.

Health & Medicine, Politics

PRESIDENT OBAMA APPOINTS SENATOR RAND PAUL VACCINATION CZAR

February 3, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) – In a stunning move which Washington insiders are calling a big step towards true bipartisanship, President Obama today appointed Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul as the country’s new Vaccinations Czar.

The appointment comes on the heels of the growing number of cases of measles which many believe have been precipitated by unvaccinated children. Over the last decade, many Americans have made the difficult decision not to vaccinate their children against communicable diseases like measles and hepatitis for fear the vaccinations have adverse, damaging consequences.

Obama appointed Paul after the senator, an opthalmologist, made an impassioned statement on live TV regarding vaccinations. He argued Monday that debate over whether to allow parents more choice in the vaccination of their children was a matter of “freedom,” citing personal knowledge of kids “who wound up with profound mental disorders” after receiving immunizations for diseases like Hepatitis B and measles.

“I don’t think there’s anything extraordinary about resorting to freedom,” the potential 2016 presidential candidate, said in an interview with CNBC.

“We sometimes give five or six vaccines all at one time,” he said of immunizations of newborns for Hepatitis B. “I chose to have mine delayed….Do I think it’s ultimately a good idea? Yeah. So I had mine staggered over several months. I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children, who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. I’m not arguing that vaccines are a bad idea, I think they’re a good thing. But I think parents should have some input. The state doesn’t own your children, parents own their children, and it is an issue of freedom. ”

Both Republicans and Democrats immediately praised Paul’s appointment and agreed this can only boost his chances should he decide to seek the Republican presidential nomination come 2016.