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South Carolina’s establishment Republican senator Lindsey Graham rose to prominence as John McCain’s reliable “wingman,” ever ready to criticize conservatives for standing on principle. One of the first to blame the Tea Party for the GOP’s failure to win the Senate majority in 2010, Graham was an outspoken advocate for
unilateral military action in Syria and for supporting the ousted radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt. Rather than embrace the Founder’s wise counsel against foreign entanglements, Graham has rarely met a military spending bill or foreign adventure that he won’t support.

15. THOMAS J. DONOHUE

As President of the US Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue knows none of his member companies would run their business the way the Washington establishment runs the federal government. But his job isn’t to advocate for fiscal sanity or pro-growth economic policies, it is to protect the Wall Street–Washington–Silicon Valley axis that pays his salary. That is why when limited-government constitutional conservatives stood against raising the debt ceiling without spending cuts, Donohue told Tea Partiers that they must raise the debt ceiling or “we will get rid of you.” Now Donohue is the leading advocate for amnesty for illegal aliens and has promised to spend $50 million raised from the cheap-labor wing of the business community to advance amnesty, the number one goal of Obama’s second term.

No matter who else gets in the Republican presidential primaries, Jeb Bush will remain the “great white hope” of the Republican establishment. In addition to supporting all of their major policy goals from Common Core to amnesty for illegal aliens, a Bush candidacy also holds out the hope of millions of dollars in consulting business and lucrative lobbying contracts for a small but powerful coterie of Bush family supporters and acolytes. No one else in America, save Hillary Clinton, starts the 2016 political season with a larger Rolodex of Washington insider supporters than does Jeb Bush. A Jeb Bush election as president would ensure that the Republican establishment stays in power for at least another decade, and it would also ensure that, no matter if Jeb or the Democrat wins, Big Government will prevail.

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QUESTION #1

Where do you stand on privacy and the Fourth Amendment? Please select the answer that most closely reflects your opinion.

NSA eavesdropping on e-mail and telephone communications is necessary for our national security.

The NSA needs complete top-to-bottom reform to stop the unconstitutional actions in which its out-of-control bureaucrats have engaged.

Undecided, not sure

QUESTION #2

TAKEOVER 2016 Presidential Straw Poll—Who is your preferred Republican candidate for President?

(Listed in alphabetical order)

Jeb Bush

Chris Christie

Ted Cruz

Mike Huckabee

Rand Paul