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

"Best wishes" is a strange way to spell "fuck you".

"You have no clue about life" is the go-to, default grade school comeback when you have no time to think of something.

nagl to use it in writing when you have plenty of time to think of something

Oh to be the staffer in charge of printing shit off the internet for Mr. Trump each morning.

"Wait one moment, Verona."

*scribble, scribble*

"There. You make sure that gets back to that jackass, Mr. Jabar."

That's one way that I could see him creating a lot of trouble for himself: he picks a fight with the wrong person. Not another politician, but someone like Jabbar, a revered athlete and really kind of a gentle soul. (Not that Trump's 28% would necessarily revere Jabbar, but I'm sure there are fans among them.)

He called out Jphn McCain for like the one thing that everyone respects about John McCain? How is arguing with some Black Muslim going to cause him to lose any points with the sideshow that's supporting him right now?

I just think that once you direct your invective against someone who's not a politician, you run a risk (even when responding to a political editorial by Jabbar). People can have very protective feelings about childhood heroes. As I say: not necessarily Trump's 28%, but I'm sure some of them grew up watching Jabbar too. Beyond that 28%, I believe it's a risk--and if not Jabbar, some other non-politician.

As for McCain, that confused me at first, but he's always been viewed with suspicion within his party, and he lost the election that put Obama in office on top of that. I don't know if there's a lot of goodwill left for McCain within that party, or at least for the part that's with Trump right now.

Listen, man, McCain's been hearing that crap ever since he got back from Hanoi. He's been out there, busting his buns every night. Tell Trump to drag McConnell and Cornyn up and down the aisle, see how he likes it!

kareem's respected but i don't know about revered so much.

can we just start shooting

Here you go:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8_ENa7sVpug/SmBMCkrodeI/AAAAAAAAEZ0/-WqkHyWHIMY/s400/nba_jabbarhooks_800.jpg

nagl to use it in writing when you have plenty of time to think of something

This is not in fairness the mode in which Trump has ever depicted himself as working. Particularly not now - making America great again waits for no-one!

And (as one of the articles above mentions) it's paradoxically this that makes the fact that he's clearly the only candidate who writes his own twitter so valuable - he's taking time out of his busy day to talk to (not with) you about this issues that matter. Why, Abdul-Jabbar should frame that screenshot!

kareem's respected but i don't know about revered so much.

Long time since I followed basketball closely. I used to think of Jabbar as one of the most admirable superstar athletes out there: thoughtful, soft-spoken, very modest. I know there was some controversy early in his career--I vaguely remember a Sports Illustrated cover in the early '70s about his peripheral involvement with some nasty business--but I thought all of that was long in the past and he was a respected elder statesman of the game.

Think I also always felt a connection to him because he endured one of my worst fears: lost his entire album collection in a fire.

(Okay, you're actually making that point--respected, not revered.)

Anyway, forget Jabbar. The thing I get out of this--and I guess it was clear already with McCain and Kelly, but it seems even clearer now--is that Trump will strike back at anybody, full-force and without a second thought. And in trying to figure out what may bring him down, that strikes me as something that could. People who are convinced they're invincible do overstep.

I'm trying to think at this point who Trump could attack and have it actually hurt him. Not sure there is anyone living (Reagan obv choice amongst the dead).

Conservative Talk Radio.

Trump should challenge Putin to some sort of superhero style villain duel, like Kingpin vs. Dr. Doom or something.

http://i.imgur.com/HO3sy8w.jpg

"Go back to Univision!"
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTayWHs685P0FjLUBRCzngazVuNwiuV0oy2fJJu-7jtoE9j5Ys

rush kinda loves trump and i'm not sure anyone else in talk radio is untouchable. there'd be a large risk of alienating the audience; erickson faced blowback just for objecting to 'cuckservative'. i could imagine hannity at some point going after trump, he's a good little soldier.

I can't see Trump getting into a war with conservative talk radio really hurting him (also can't see him getting into that war). He's basically half declared war on Fox News to little impact.

Limbaugh is far from untouchable. His ratings have been in decline for a while now, and advertisers fled in droves after the whole Sandra Fluke thing. He's been moved to smaller stations in a lot of markets.

Would love to see Trump and Cheney go a few rounds.

Trump should buy Fox.

rush is in decline for sure and i'm not even sure it's all sandra fluke fallout, there's something else going on but i don't know what (maybe combination of audience literally dying off plus overcrowded market?), but he's still the king and i don't think we've moved past the days of a republican pol being able to slight him w/o having to apologize and genuflect to talent on loan from god within 24 hours.

Trump should buy Fox.

this would be funny/awesome but he doesn't have the money

Pretty sure when he's president he'll sell off the less successful parts of America. ie. Louisiania Purchase back to the French at an unbelievable rate.

Theoretical scenario. Behind the scenes, the party gets Nancy Reagan to speak out about Trump. (Can't see that she'd ever get involved.) Trump fires off something similar to the Jabbar letter. (Really can't see that he'd ever be that dumb--pretend for a second.) That would be a big problem for him, no?

xpost Trump: The only candidate committed to actually shrinking the border with Mexico.

Never mind. She's 94--beyond even hypothesis.

https://twitter.com/sinderbrand/status/639468706620420096

trump/carson/cruz up to 56% of the share with that one

that's national, but the numbers for SC and IA aren't that different

http://www.monmouth.edu/university/monmouth-university-poll-reports.aspx

still want to know what's up with Ben Carson's rocket jump

http://i.imgur.com/9pOTg3w.jpg

So, the two most popular candidates in the Republican race for president are as different as can be when in comes to personality and style. One is a monumental blowhard billionaire and the other is a diffident brain surgeon. But it’s not the way Trump and Carson speak or the style with which they present themselves that has the base so dazzled. These voters agree with the substance of what these two are saying. And they are both certifiable extremists.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/what-if-they-really-mean-what-they-say.html

increasingly thinking it's gonna be rubio, which should make hillary a little nervous

lol why would she be scared of a balding little boy

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/politics/republican-rnc-loyalty-pledge-donald-trump/index.html

I can only interpret this as Trump being absolutely sure he will win the nomination--can't see him signing it otherwise, unless he has no intention of honoring it.

lol it will not be rubio

i still think it will be jeb

yeah whenever i settle on a guy it isn't because i've been looking at their strengths as much as i've been looking at the other plausibles weaknesses. it's like trying to pick the nfc south.

i still think it will be jeb

Same here, but it seems he's doing everything in his power to make this not happen.

unless he has no intention of honoring it.

there's no way that's legally binding

Asked by Fox if Trump is right & he’s dropping out, Rick Perry responds: “A broken clock is right once a day.”

amazing

it's because he's NOT. RUNNING. you suckers!

And Rick Perry, having been in ROTC, knows that 7 p.m. is really 1900 hour.

http://worldlibertytv.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Dr.Abbey-with-Donald-trump-Jessie-Jackson-Al-Sharpton-James-Brown1.jpg

Magical.