By Javier Manjarres The Republican field of Presidential hopefuls is now down to the Top three candidates. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have all won a primary contest leading into Florida’s ‘winner-take-all’ primary election on January 31st. With that said, we here at the Shark Tank believe that yet another totally unscientific poll [...]
Continue reading …Why is Marco Rubio Supporting the Protect IP Act? **UPDATE**- Rubio Drops Support of Protect IP Act
January 18, 2012 5 Comments
by Lone Shark The PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and its House counterpart, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have generated a huge backlash from the online community and numerous Internet businesses- over 7000 sites across the Internet have “gone black” to express their opposition to the legislation. Unfortunately, both of Florida’s U.S. Senators- Marco Rubio and Bill [...]
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By Javier Manjarres Is a political alliance between Senator Marco Rubio and Congressman Allen West just around the corner? Considering the partisan divide and lack of cooperation between the two Houses of Congress over the past year that has stalled efforts to pass legislation that would aid our economic recovery, such an alliance could help [...]
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By Javier Manjarres As 2011 comes to a close and the primary voting season begins, there are a couple of ‘hard to ignore’ sentiments that are being expressed by a growing number of Republicans. The first is that all of the candidates in the current field of Republican candidates are deficient in one or more [...]
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By Javier Manjarres It’s been well chronicled here at the Shark Tank that we are no fans of Congressman Ron Paul’s views on foreign policy-to all but his die hard fans, such an outlook on today’s geopolitical scene is naive and dangerous. However, we have defended his aggressiveness as it pertains to domestic spending, as [...]
Continue reading …Wasserman-Schultz Positions Herself Behind Giffords’ Inspirational Recovery
November 16, 2011 14 Comments
By Lone Shark Let’s put this disclaimer right up front- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is an American patriot who has undergone a harrowing ordeal and trial, and she is now in the process of making an inspirational recovery. We wish her nothing short of a full recovery and hope that she is one day able to [...]
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by Lone Shark There are few issues that so perfectly divide the general public and countless constituency groups along atypical political fault lines more so than does the issue of gaming and gambling. The disparate groups opposed to a gaming expansion have different reasons for doing so- some groups base their opposition on moral grounds, [...]
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By Javier Manjarres Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the blackest President/Presidential candidate of them all? That seems to be the burning question that numerous politicos and pundits are privately asking themselves, as businessman Herman Cain attempts to position himself to win the Republican nomination and face-off with President Barack Obama in the 2012 [...]
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by Javier Manjarres With Democrats and Republicans both aggressively courting the coveted Hispanic vote, the manner in which the candidates deal with illegal immigration could very well the deciding issue that most influences the 2012 general election. As we’ve stated time and again, the issue could be a winning one if Republicans played their hand [...]
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The FL Senate Race and The Lesser of Two Moderates
February 2, 2012 22 CommentsBy Javier Manjarres With the recent news that Adam Hasner has dropped out of the Republican U.S. Senate primary race in Florida, the field of candidates narrows, leaving two men standing. The focus will be primarily on Congressman Connie Mack as the frontrunner and presumptive nominee. Former Senator George LeMieux has been running a distant [...]
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