a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

Dammit

Bernie won't get the nomination, I don't think; but if he did, I legitimately think he would probably win the general against any of these fools.

Winning the nomination would certainly prove that Bernie had wide and deep support among the democratic base. Right there that gives him a good 40% of the vote. He'd be susceptible to being McGoverned by the Republicans, though, and the media would definitely echo that party line for them.

election fan fic

it's a nice fantasy, but the corpo-media-political complex simply would never permit him to be president.

also most pol dont want to vote for him

I don't think even Morbs is suggesting that Clinton isn't going to be the candidate? But it would be nice to have someone to publicly drag her back to the left.

the corpo-media-political complex won't even allow that

to have someone to publicly drag her back to the left.

until she's elected, right? I know after 2008 we don't believe lies from lying shitheads, right?

i mean, my God, Salon articles are already swooning over HilRod's "lefty" pronouncements so far.

http://www.fulwood-cadley.lancsngfl.ac.uk/images/library/Classes/Class%202/Song%20Collection/Pictures/Nursery%20Rhymes/mulberry%20bush.jpg

http://www.fulwood-cadley.lancsngfl.ac.uk/images/library/Classes/Class%202/Song%20Collection/Pictures/Nursery%20Rhymes/mulberry%20bush.jpg

Walker has true believer written all over him. He's not just pro-life; he ran for student council on an anti-abortion platform in college (he also promised to bring INXS and REM to campus). He doesn't just like Ronald Reagan; he and his wife got married on Reagan's birthday and hold an annual Reagan-themed anniversary dinner. Apparently he can't even pretend to be insincere about marriage equality.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831247/scott-walker-true-believer

honestly I can't see someone with this weak a chin getting into the White House (important commentary, I know):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/politics/scott-walker-promising-bold-leadership-faces-gop-discord-in-wisconsin.html?_r=0

i am physically repulsed by his limp jaw, it's true

he's a less cute version of Vincent Kartheiser/Pete Campbell

plus slightly crosseyed

it's amazing what a hot show can do; Kartheiser is reptilian.

I was about to say that Ted Cruz has even less of a chin than Walker, but then I GISed and huh, I guess his isn't bad. Why do I always think of him as chinless?

His droopy eyes make him look like a cartoon nebbish, and a weak chin goes along with that type.

"he ran for student council on an anti-abortion platform in college (he also promised to bring INXS and REM to campus)"

did he succeed? if not then how can we possibly trust him to run our country?

otm

Black metal-style logos for 2016 Presidential candidates (both teams)

https://twitter.com/BobbyJindal/status/613745877639802881

first response hall of fame

^ what was the first response? can't comprehend order of tweets due to awful new embedding/nesting system

"who isn't?"

so glad he's in, it's been a slow couple of days on the GOP-prez-candidate-announcement trail

welcome bobby!

I’m running for President of the United States of America. Join me: http://www.bobbyjindal.com/announcement/

join you bobby ok i will run for president too

gt it was this:

https://twitter.com/Treeee15/status/613746259812294656

you're right, twitter's new threading interface is just loathesome

idk if I can vote for you Marcos, how do you look in an oversized suit

welcome bobby digital

Tre` Lain ‏@Treeee15 1h1 hour ago
@BobbyJindal Are u fucking serious? I'm starting to think u might be on drugs . U just can't be this stupid

Jeb has seemed like a total moron so far, but Walker and Cruz are very weird looking. Real horse race I think.

I tuned into NPR the other afternoon for the first time in months and they were running not one but two completely content-free puff pieces on Rubio.

Like if I was running against him I'd just do a voiceover of whatever my message is over a repeating loop of him sipping off that water bottle for every ad.

jeb at one point seemed to have the invisible primary locked up but now ppl seem to be hedging, rubio seems like the only other conceivable establishment candidate, walkers too much of a true believer

Cruz surrogate Chumley (!) weighs in:

Another of Cruz's campaign co-chairs in the Palmetto State, state Rep. Bill Chumley (R), voted against opening debate on the flag. Chumley also told CNN on Tuesday night that he believed it more urgent to debate the fact that no one present at the massacre of nine black Charleston churchgoers was armed.

"We need to be focusing on the nine families that are left and see that this doesn’t happen again," Chumley said in the CNN interview. "These people sat in there, and waited their turn to be shot. That’s sad. But somebody in there with the means of self defense could have stopped this. And we’d have had less funerals than we’re having."

strikes the right tone

"people seem to be hedging in re. inevitable candidate" -- 2012 all over again.

these people sat in there, and waited their turn to be shot

GOP state representatives are a really deep bench of total fucking assholes, aren't they?

"people seem to be hedging in re. inevitable candidate" -- 2012 all over again.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, June 24, 2015 2:28 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the establishment was fully behind romney the whole time

^^ this

the diff is that in 2016 the establishment and the "Tea Party" and whatever you want to call Tenth Amendment dead enders and secessionists are all the same.

Yeah, all that claim means is that what "the establishment" wants is not by itself that important.

the establishment was fully behind romney the whole time

right, but the narrative was that voters were hedging.

xps don't think that's true. multiple & significant divisions, tensions, internal conflicts on the right

Yeah, all that claim means is that what "the establishment" wants is not by itself that important.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 3:05 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the establishment doesnt get its candidate through the gop primaries itll be the first time

hard to imagine where that narrative came from:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hnhI6-fxOGU/TwtKuSKLYUI/AAAAAAAAAa4/wlNLDCi8AnA/s1600/poll+collapse.png

The final graph from RCP is more impressive, even - he went under to Gingrich for a second time, and finally to Rick Santorum.