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

Say no, Ben Carson. Just say no.

trump is about to bury himself as an anti-vaxxer

this thing is 3 HOURS????

No wonder you masochists like Michael Mann movies.

Trump has been kinda flailing tonight

But yeah the length of this is punishing

I think Trump has had too many of the wrong shots.

"I'm all for vaccines. But I'm also for freedom."

lol morbs

Did he just slap Carson's ass?

when you are as awesome as trump you don't need to prepare for these debates. you just walk on stage and be awesome.

You'd have to vaccinate me to put me on stage next to these nuts.

Vaccines are cures, jackass.

Pop Reagan quiz!

the nra ran an anti-bloomberg ad during this break??

In which film did Reagan co-star with a chimp?

A) Every Which Way But Loose
B) Monkey Trouble
C) Ed
D) Bedtime for Bonzo
E) All of Them

What should be renamed after Reagan?

A) Mt. Rushmore
B) The Washington Monument
C) The Vietnam Memorial
D)Bedtime for Bonzo
E) All of them

OMG, Thatcher on a bill!

I thought Christie was going to suggest Lurch.

Codename Twinkie.

Wait, the plane is really in the museum!? This is not CNN's doing? Everything has changed ...

as a tribute to Reagan's role in Kings Row, all the candidates will have a leg amputated while they sleep tonight.

I'm sure they built the museum around AF1.

The biggest thing inside Nixon's museum is his limo.

Where's the Rest of Carly?

Cruz is a psyyyyyyyycho.

Kill the terrorists
Repeal Obamacare
Defend Constitution .

Check check check.

He makes prosperity sound absolutely evil

The Addams family HAS been under-represented on currency. Morticia 4evs.

If I were going to chance a prediction, I think Carson may be the loser from tonight. Assuming any Republican voters were still watching, I can't imagine too many being happy with that answer he gave about telling Bush not to go into Afghanistan after 9/11.

Kasich and Walker were the only two people who were completely invisible up there. Have to believe they won't be around for long.

God, that Fiorina closing comment was hokey.

I faded out for the past several minutes. Just a white noise generator.

when in doubt, always end with the pledge of allegiance

I was in and out of the adjacent room listening, but I don't know, I must have missed parts. They're saying Walker helped himself tonight; I barely remember him speaking.

Chris Christie was 15 in 1980

Closing statements were pure SNL

Jon Daly posted this Carly gem:

https://instagram.com/p/7tnvqKGIq6/

Hottake crunchwrap, winners: fiorina, trump again, then paul and Christie (like from 1% to 2%)

goddam this was a mess. i feel like the heat was getting to these guys, all of them

one great moment of truth: trump saying that bush gave us obama because he was a disaster. of course it bricked. most amazing silence.

the vaccine segment between trump, carson and rand was legit the weirdest fucking thing i've seen on political television. i really can't believe i saw it. truly batshit

i lost track of how many of them promised to start a war in europe

the other nuances are frankly meaningless in light of the undeniable: all of these people are fantasists and maniacs and nothing they said promised anything except violence and misery to millions

all of these people are fantasists and maniacs and nothing they said promised anything except violence and misery to millions

this is kind of a beautifully written sentence

I agree!

on both points

One of the gawker live-bloggers posted a screengrab of it, but did anybody catch the audience member behind Tapper wearing a Rebel Flag tie?

https://www.facebook.com/jon.wurster/videos/10207646492179881/

Jon Wurster:
The least into a high-five any human has ever been.

https://vine.co/v/eU59mHr0b5P

http://carlyfiorina.org/

Still there

Just going thru all the live-blogging now, I dig this well-timed post from the Hillary campaign when the idiots were attacking the ability to speak spanish:

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/644320364387037184

Hillary Clinton
‏@HillaryClinton

La libertad incluye el derecho de hablar en cualquier idioma. Eso nos hace fuerte como país y es algo que debemos celebrar—no denigrar.

6:22 PM - 16 Sep 2015

They should just release this entire season on Netflix.

You all would certainly binge watch it.

"The anxiety is unbearable; I hope it lasts"

the vaccine segment between trump, carson and rand was legit the weirdest fucking thing i've seen on political television. i really can't believe i saw it. truly batshit

frankly it was uncomfortable to watch carson fumble over his response to this, i turned off the video before it even got to paul.