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

That day his 5th grade teacher gave him a D on a grammar assignment.

heh

"today is some of" is such a horrible trainwreck

that construction makes me think of "i can has..."

I can has presidency?

hmm how well did that strategy work out for Lincoln and the country can you remind me

― Οὖτις,

are you really questioning this as strategy? Border state revolt, likely northern Democratic revolt -- not sure what he could've done, especially as he kept a coalition together that was FAR more radical than he between 1865-1868.

Not entirely serious but civil war + dead president is kinda a weird example of an optimal outcome

Also disingenuous to suggest o and hillary had as much on the line w gay marriage as lincoln did w slavery, and neither had the foresight or instincts that lincoln did.

~results~

(sorry morbs)

Not entirely serious but civil war + dead president is kinda a weird example of an optimal outcome

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 26, 2015 10:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we are standing at the precipice of a truly moronic alternate history i can feel it

What if.. Robert Bork had been president in 1861?

http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/inline/2015/06/3047747-inline-i-8b-2016s-presidential-hopefuls-redesigned-as-black-metal-bands-copy.jpg

lol

What if.. Robert Bork had been president in 1861?

― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino),

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/176729/judge-bork-martinis-kathryn-jean-lopez

Right now, George Pataki is thinking 'Look at these schmoes - maybe I should run.'

'Look at these schmoes - maybe I should run. hey, I'M A SCHMOE TOO!'

god, i hope trump can keep this up for a few more weeks. having him in the GOP debates would be amazing

http://deadline.com/2015/06/nbc-donald-trump-cancels-miss-usa-miss-universe-1201461913/

The reporting is a little bit ambiguously worded, because while it's clear that they've dropped the pageants, it also states that it's keeping its relationship with the Mark Burnett company which produces Celebrity Apprentice.

yeah was wondering how this was going to work out:

The network said that it has already begun exploring ways to air future seasons of the reality series "Celebrity Apprentice" without Trump as host. Reality show producer Mark Burnett continues to work on that show. "The Apprentice," which Trump also hosted and does not feature celebrities, is on hiatus.

Aww man... just looking at that 2012 chart up aways... Jon Huntsman was the only likeable guy running in the GOP, of course he was universally hated. Funny cause if had switched to the Dems the DLC probably would have funded him all the way to Veep, you know there's a large Dem. constituency that wets itself at the idea of slightly more liberal Jack Kemp.

interesting

I wouldn't have expected the donor base to tilt so far - p much ensures she'll continue her lefty populist schtick

hey i need to go on the record somewhere as saying i think chris christie will win the nomination
i just need to say it. i need to be on the record, laughed out of town, humiliated, i need to elicit eventually-historically-ironic responses, like all the conversation in the first twenty minutes of titanic. i still just feel like people love a strident muscular guy, & that any variation from such in a democratic nominee will mean they can double down on it.

Muscular?

i agree that people gravitate toward really large brash confident loud people, but he really shot himself in the foot with the scandals before he even started.

The sphincter is a muscle.

people gravitate toward really large brash confident loud people

Really? I sure don't.

yeah me neither

but lots of people do

nobody has to debate the merits of this, really i would prefer it to be swept aside, for me to be cast out, left derelict & ruined but desperately clutching this post's bookmarkedmessageid so that one day i might wield it as proof. & muscular like muscular, not like "muscular", you know. i don't think anything matters anymore in terms of scandals, or like it does but just in this thin rhetorical sense of creating a dicey linguistic puzzle, solving which would demonstrate one's eligibility, proving one's power as a table-turner. like with jeb & iraq or whatever. nobody cares about iraq at all, but the fascination of how well he can walk the tightrope of not specifically bowing to its gravity is like a useful contest. christie just needs a bunch of material to adult-in-the-room over, i think, of which there is a bunch, & then he can be reassuring commanding dad president.

it would be really fun to walk on chris christie's back

We are in many respects an intensely superficial country and Chris Christie is an ugly, sweaty, loud-talking (and probably close-talking) fat man. He will never be president.

*prints this post*

Gaze intently at every face at the top of this thread (and add Jindal and Christie.) Can you picture ANY of them being president? I mean, GWB was an unlikely president (to me), but these guys and gal are a pretty amazing bunch...

Gaze intently at every face at the top of this thread (and add Jindal and Christie.) Can you picture ANY of them being president?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/17/article-2294821-18BDAEB9000005DC-441_306x423.jpg

There have been and probably will again be periods when an unattractive/unappealing/appallingly-grotesque person could be elected President, but I don't think this is one of those periods.

GOP base hates Christie, kinda a big problem

Christie has a 'big' problem.

i'd love to see a GOP roundtable debate without a moderator or any questions. just 10 candidates (or 15 or 20 or whatever they're up to now) shouting over each other and competing for attention for 2 hours

The scandals can serve (unless he's far more dextrous than anything else has shown) to paint him as petty. He'd rather they painted him as the wrong man to cross, but it would take a lot to make that stick at this point.

let's see who the true leader of the GOP is

i'd love to see a GOP roundtable debate without a moderator or any questions. just 10 candidates (or 15 or 20 or whatever they're up to now) shouting over each other and competing for attention for 2 hours

― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone),

how do you tell the difference

in my version a fistfight breaks out at the halfway point

between who?

a moderated and unmoderated GOP debate

The god of GOP candidates demands more sacrifices! More! Bring them to me so that I may feast!

lol

i imagine an involuntary eyeroll from lindsay graham could be like the assassination of archduke ferdinand

roy innis should run

they should have round-robin cage-match style debates

they should make them all stand on little poles out in the water, like on survivor. just to winnow it down a little. last five or six get to be real candidates. winner gets immunity for the next primary.

The official 'only 10 candidates' debate has an satellite linkup to an 11th podium in the cage, suspended by chains 8 feet over the floor. There are ladders.