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tblue37

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32. Branding. He has already earned about $2 million giving speeches to conservative groups,

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #30)

Thu Oct 8, 2015, 02:00 PM

Oct 2015

as well as to other organizations (e.g., high schools!); therefore, like other pretend candidates for the GOP nomination, he is raising his national visibility and burnishing his RW cred so he can get more RW speaking gigs and charge higher fees.

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