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

The other candidates were one-upping each other on their abortion outrage, and to my mind Trump is there to appeal to fiscal conservatives / social moderates who long for the days when being a Republican reflected one's seriousness in business but not religion.

i think peak trump already passed, but plateau trump can continue for a long time. there's been a backlash going on for a long time, but it's not important to the 35% or so of conservatives who are also xenophobic white supremacists.

i think peak trump already passed, but plateau trump can continue for a long time.

sorry. that was kind of approaching http://i.imgur.com/wieYmJw.jpg

https://web.archive.org/web/20061018180210/http://www.bernie.org/media/game/

It would be strange indeed if Pataki outlasted both Perry and Walker.

What is a "nervous vendor to @scottwalker"

538 six stages of doom thing re trump mentioned earlier seems pretty otm

Asked about the debate, Hillary is like: "Oh, I don't watch those silly things."

I can't stop watching this: https://vine.co/v/eUg9teiBPa5

http://vine.co/v/eUg9teiBPa5

Goddamit, how do you post a Vine loop?

ilx wont embed vines

(but it should)

http://giant.gfycat.com/AdolescentEvergreenElephantbeetle.gif

lol

i jumped back a little bit

https://media.giphy.com/media/l41lGydeN1fV0Z5Ic/giphy.gif

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-yob-rich-beeson-bar-punch

honestly this is exactly what I've been hoping for from this primary season

"I am hereby calling on Marco Rubio to fire Rich Beeson effective immediately"

duel at dawn or gtfo, cuckservatives

anyone post about Trump responding to guy who wants to 'get rid of' Muslims? Even Trump seemed a little taken aback, he gave a typically generic non-answer but even more so, if that makes sense.

I did here last night. According to Chris Hayes and a reporter, he ran out of the building instead of lingering as usual.

lol he did not seem taken aback at all and said "we need this question" and "we will be looking into a lot of things" and later tweeted that christians are treated like shit in this country

I didn't notice he was taken aback, not like McCain was.

xpost

Compare-contrast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRq6Y4NmB6U

yea the mccain thing is a very good contrast (but even that was totally fucked, lol "he's an arab" "no he's a decent family man")

I didn't give McCain then any points for doing what my loud neighbor would have said as a courtesy.

the curve one grades US pols on now runs lower than the Lincoln Tunnel

"You know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American."

Another poll this month pegged the number of Republicans overall who think Obama is a Muslim at 54 percent — higher than the 43 percent in the CNN poll. As we wrote, that figure was likely inflated. But it's also clear that a very significant portion of the GOP holds this view. And that's been the case unabated for years. (CNN's numbers are also on the high end historically, which could mean this perception is on the rise or simply that this poll is a little different.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/18/a-trump-questioner-called-obama-a-muslim-which-a-majority-of-trump-backers-believe/

Anything to distract from the fact that they worship the guy that pumped hundreds of millions of dollars directly to the mujahideen.

I wonder if in that actual plane Reagan signed off some arms to go to Bin Laden that would be pretty ironic.

the cake that Bud McFarlane took to the "moderate Iranian middlemen" was baked in there iirc

those kind of polls look horrifying but are generally meaningless, they're more effectively a measurement of how many ppl in the opposition party really really disapprove of the president then how many ppl believe whatever lunacy, cf bizarrely high numbers of democrats that would answer bush did 9/11 during his administration. although in this case i suspect the number who sincerely believe is higher if only cuz so many americans and esp so many republicans know fuck all about islam. i bet if the theory had gotten more press and the question had been polled a lot of republicans would've answered yes to did hillary kill vince foster.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/sources-scott-walkers-donors-are-circulating-rumor-about-cam#.heL9xdz46

Carly Fiorina's Dad worked for Nixon and later did this:

Sneed was part of a three-judge panel that replaced Whitewater special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske with Kenneth Starr in 1994.

waaaaht

rags to riches

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/18/top-rand-paul-aide-accuses-top-rubio-aide-of-punching-him-in-the-face/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tyree_Sneed,_III

I wonder if in that actual plane Reagan signed off some arms to go to Bin Laden that would be pretty ironic.

Probably

priceless:

"I look at our friends in the Latino community as people that ought to be voting Republican," the Ohio governor said at a campaign event, according to The Columbus Dispatch. "I mean, they're very strong family. We could all learn a little from them about the importance of family, couldn't we? Because they are great, they are God-fearing, hard-working folks. And a lot of them do jobs that they're willing to do."

"That's why, in a hotel, you leave a little tip, you know?"

He went on to talk about a hotel maid he met on a trip to Los Angeles, who wrote him a note saying, "I really want you to know that I care about your stay," according to the Los Angeles Times.

"Is that just the greatest thing?" he continued. "So, you know, we can learn a lot and she's Hispanic, 'cause I didn't know it at the time, but I met her in the hallway -- asked her if I could get a little more soap."

JFC

He left her a buck, he wants a return on investment, c'mon

he really thought this through

it's funny how great these GOP prez guys are at occasionally saying something that sounds reasonable or empathetic (Chris Christie's bit about drug treatment or NJ's solar program during the debate, for ex.) and immediately following it with the most tone-deaf, ignorant bullshit

I don't generally go around with a 'white privilege' stamp but holy shit I don't think there could be a better example.

"And a lot of them do jobs that they're willing to do."

Another poll this month pegged the number of Republicans overall who think Obama is a Muslim at 54 percent

Can we just call these guys Kluxervatives now

It'd be more interesting to know if these polling places rewrite this question every time or if they just use the same form they wrote up 7-8 years ago.

hopefully they consistently use the same phrase so that the results can be compared to each other across time