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

lol greenwald otm

they considered "he kept us safe, except for the people in the world trade center and the pentagon and the planes" but decided it was too long to fit

And the anthrax attacks.

I agree with Charles Pierce's general point about Fiorina, but surely you can at least credit her with a great, succinct answer on the Rolling Stone question. I'm sure Pierce would credit Hillary in a similar situation.

and letting Osama Bin Laden get away

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a great, succinct answer on the Rolling Stone question.

a question that is totally irrelevant to being president

I agree with Charles Pierce's general point about Fiorina, but surely you can at least credit her with a great, succinct answer on the Rolling Stone question. I'm sure Pierce would credit Hillary in a similar situation.

― clemenza,

It's not an equivalence though. I simply don't care how these guys do cosmetically. Their politics are abhorrent and will cost thousands of people their jobs and lives.

the only two people who came off like adults were Kasich and Rand Paul, the latter of whom didn't get applause once.

and Paul is a curly-haired grandma starver too

a curly-haired grandma starver who hires racists

The entire electoral process/rhetoric is totally irrelevant to being president.

This... thing... was the most watched CNN show ever. File under "stupidity porn."

most watched CNN show is not really much of an accomplishment considering the channel is more or less nonstop garbage

wtf I missed this

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ann-Coulter-s-f-ing-Jews-tweet-ripped-6511488.php

good ole ann. she should run!

I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan.

ann coulter is pretty racist

yeah twitter was all over that last night, trump/"cuckservative"/etc has kinda exposed and created an opportunity for this branch of conservativism that's a cunt hair away from being open white nationalism. feels kinda different from that old taki/derbyshire paleocon bigotry, though there are bridges between the two (eg gavin mcinnes).

But Fiorina's answer to that one specific question isn't just cosmetic--women, and how we treat women, is a huge issue in any campaign. She answered that question exactly how it should be answered: everyone, women especially, know exactly what Trump meant by his comment. To endorse her answer there doesn't mean you endorse everything, or even anything else, about her.

xxxps I think she's got a racist face and she is a racist woman.

balls otm

though i'd say the only diff between the old paleocon variety and the new jacks is age, and maybe the influence of places like 4chan

another bridge is breitbart editor katie mchugh

i watched w/ some friends and this guy creeped us all out, kinda figured he'd turn into a thing

http://www.reviewjournal.com/trending/the-feed/everyones-obsessed-the-hot-guy-the-gop-debate-poll

Coulter was actually pretty dead-on (there were a whole string of tweets, not just that one, and read in sequence they're a sharp critique of current Republican orthodoxy).

Hot for a Republican presidential debate, he's not stopping any traffic.

(He might be drawn by Mike Allred though?)

http://i.imgur.com/LFEJmc9.jpg

"Ooh, I like Jews, and I like fetuses. I like Reagen to enter a final plea..."

xp he looks like a butter sculpture of Henry Rollins

unnecessary xps

xp It's not really the sharpness of the critique there though?

it'd be great if american conservatism could calm down with the messianic christian shit at home and abroad but i don't think rediscovering its submerged WASP antisemitism is going to do it

Why not? It's reveled in its WASP nativism for years.

aw was hoping 'hot guy' was pftcommenter, he was there again too - https://vine.co/v/eU1657nO0Q9

just watched clips and selectively browsed the transcript, but fuck that vaccines-autism discussion with trump and the two doctors on stage was completely embarrassing horseshit, the scrambling carson did to avoid telling trump that he's completely wrong on the facts was so uncomfortable, whoever said carson is vying for a running mate spot w/ trump possibly otm

it was just surreal even carson/paul saying there is not vaccine-autism link but that we are "putting too much stuff into our kids" and should spread it out is bonkers horseshit

41% of reviewjournal.com readers think hot guy is "not at all" hot, while another 41% voted for "can we just move on?" NO WE CANNOT JUST MOVE ON.

CNN tracked him down after the debate, and unfortunately for those on Twitter, 24-year-old Greg Caruso would not reveal his relationship status. The Los Angeles man said he was an aspiring filmmaker and, no, he's not on social media. At least he said so.

Mediaite reported he was the son of billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso and is a Republican.

i love this debate crowd. 500 people, including your run of the mill son of a billionaire. actually, i guess that would put him in the top half of the top 1% of attendees, so that's about right.

saw a picture of that dude on twitter last night. he looks like the courtroom sketch of tom brady

he's definitely not hot imo

whoever said carson is vying for a running mate spot w/ trump possibly otm

that was me! it's probably not true at all, but i want to claim it so that it can later featured in ILX First Mentions.

marijuana conversation was embarrassing too though i guess it is expected, it will take a long time before anyone one in a national election says anything sensible about marijuana without the usual bullshit qualifications (paul surprisingly okay thought it was obv steeped in states right 10th amendment shit that is used to justify all kinds of horrible shit)

neither Trump nor Carson is going to be in the race a year from now

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I like the Jews, I like fetuses, I like Reagan, I like the nightlife, I like to boogie. I like to have a good time.

judging from my facebook feed anticipate a nice bump for fiorina though i haven't seen anyone turn on trump

Fiorina is going nowhere bc of her history at HP. debate was a stalemate. I'm almost sure Rubio will be the nominee. he didn't distinguish himself last night but he's trying not to peak early.

Dude peaked years ago

Radio Shack should offer Fiorina its CEO position imo

I don't think her history at HP will matter at all. She laid off a lot of people, but HP employs a lot of people. Romney put people out of business for a living and it barely stuck as a campaign issue.

someone should cut an attack ad of a couple people just trying to get an HP printer to work

yea people don't care if the businesses failed all they care about is that they are "businessmen" or "entrepreneurs"

I don't care if a biz fails so long as my dot matrix printer works

Romney put people out of business for a living and it barely stuck as a campaign issue

haha waht, his whole oblivious rich dude persona was precisely what sunk him

i think it was more the stuff he said (47%) and strapping his dog to his car (and that he's a mormon)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n3WPAYIVHBs/VfsD6i-d7dI/AAAAAAAAbfo/P9cWfDXlUQA/s640/Screenshot%2B2015-09-17%2Bat%2B11.17.23%2BAM.png