Punch thrown as GOP Mackinac confab begins

[workinclasszero]

Source: Detroit Free Press

A huge Republican political gathering on Mackinac Island got under way Thursday night with a barroom incident in which a top official for presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio allegedly threw a punch at a Michigan consultant working for Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The alleged incident took place at Horn's Bar, a popular nightspot on Mackinac Island, which hosts the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, which is held every other year and has drawn six GOP presidential hopefuls this year.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/09/18/punch-thrown-gop-mackinac-confab-begins/72385606/

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Idiots on parade at the GOP gathering SMH

[jalan48]

1. They were working in the bar? Excellent.

[BlueJazz]

2. "Damnit! My guy is more stupid then your guy". "You're full of shit! My guy can barely walk and ,,,

..chew gum at the same time"

[corkhead]

3. Awesome! I am heading up there tomorrow for the weekend. It was planned before I found out

that we were going the same time as the convention.

I'll be the one in the Bernie shirt

[Enthusiast]

14. Cool! Yay, Bernie!

[PATRICK]

4. We said it about Bush

It is clear Rubio is drinking to much, likely to "fortify" his nerves and shaky style. He's a PR disaster waiting to happen, but at least he is in the right party for that to be entirely overlooked.

[n2doc]

5. musical accompaniment

[Reter]

6. The establishment GOPers have always been nasty to the Paul people

I seen this at a restaurant in 2007. There were a group of McCain or Romney people calling the group of Ron Paul supporters nut cases.

[justhanginon]

7. Kind of like the old "pot and kettle" saying. n/t

[Reter]

21. Yes, but the Paul people don't run the media and establishment like the neo-cons do

So I guess the neo-cons look worse, simply because there are 10 times as many. Even the other day you can see they are playing up Fiorona, Rubio, and Christie. Media said they did great. Then they said Trump, Carson, and Paul did poorly. Wanna know why? Because all three said the Iraq War was a mistake. Neo-cons can not have an anti-war candidate. They love war.

[SoapBox]

8. That's all pretty far north, eh?

I wish they would all just keep going...like to Canada.

Sounds like a real crazy fest.

[jwirr]

9. They just came up with a brilliant idea. One of their

debates should be a brawl with all 15 weighing in. Entertaining and as good as any other way for this bunch of idiots to decide who is the best candidate in their party.

[LongTomH]

18. How about a Malaysian Cage Match? Survivor gets the nomination!

[jwirr]

19. Sounds good to me.

[staggerleem]

10. So, is ANYBODY surprised by this news?

I'll bet, if there were a show of hands on that question, nationwide, I would not run out of fingers counting them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. I'm surprised there was no gunplay.

[workinclasszero]

13. IKR?

The NRA has a sad.

[jtuck004]

12. If I was locked in a bar with Rand Paul and Marco Rubio supporters, my elbow

would be bending, but not as result of throwing punches.

[Marie Marie]

15. What can I say?

They are all idiots..

[louis-t]

16. Yeah, every once in a while the GOP gathers up north

and leaves their collective stink on Mackinac Island.

[workinclasszero]

17. That...

sucks.

[awoke_in_2003]

20. One of these days

I am going to do Mackinac, even if it is in Michigan (native Buckeye here)