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

Castro?

Gore?

definitely someone depressing

I've always wondered. When we say "it's not rocket science," that means "it's not hard." But if you are a rocket scientist, then one presumes rocket science is (relatively) easy. So when faced with something easy, would you say "it is rocket science?"

definitely someone depressing

this is a long way out but my guess would be either someone from the House or someone from an otherwise safe seat (either governorship or senate). Booker's probably not a bad guess. Warren would be a stupid choice and I don't think she would do it either.

Clinton/Klobuchar '16

Not all day jobs are easy, even if there are repetitive parts

Julian Castro is totally gonna be VP

oh that guy, yeah he would make sense

would ostensibly put Texas in play, which would be a major headache for the GOP

they can send his twin brother out for double the fundraisers

Booker's star quality might not keep a significant swath of the party from noticing he's as enthusiastic a Wall Street whore as Clinton is

yeah Booker's awfl

a pick that will highlight GOPs racist hatred of immigrants is a way safer bet

what if Biden wants to run for VP (lol)

like George Clinton!

https://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/george-clinton-parliment-funkadelic-birthday-july-22.jpg

I would love the trolling potential of having a Castro on the ticket. From the party that brought you Hussein!

acc to twitter bobby j just demanded mcconnell follow boehner to exits

does he have hostages?

where does this guy get off, i don't get it

Fat chance. McConnell wasn't born with tear ducts.

Bobby J's about to end his presidential flirtation -- he needed some way to fill his time.

where does he get off? where indeed

im kinda diggin bobby jindals wife

lol

ethan otm

annoyed at the breathless version of myself itt. Real talk: conservative south Asian Americans are the worst, no matter how nice their hair is.

I like Claire McCaskill for generic D running mate

Terry McAuliffe's term as VA governor would still have a year to go in Jan of 2017 but I'm not clear if he had any particular attachment to VA in the first place

would ostensibly put Texas in play, which would be a major headache for the GOP
― Οὖτις, Friday, September 25, 2015 2:43 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Re: Castro, Texas has not shifted enough demographically to shift anywhere close to blue and might not for another 20 years. I think this is why it's a smart risk tot take to put him on the ticket. He's not going to get close to governor or senator seats in TX for a while, and by the time he did, he'd be old man Castro.

The risk with Castro now is his lack of national experience. A short stint as sec of hud and 4 years as mayor of a decent sized city will be a hard sell I think for some voters. IDK, if he's on the ticket w hillary, maybe she offsets it.

look how well the last 2 'inexperienced' presidents have excelled at stacking corpses. kid stuff when you have the $$$!

I'm not naive enough to believe that Castro would be anything other than a standard issue president on foreign policy someday.

Its a mystery to me why u think obama's body count is so massive

XP

i don't understand what the putative advantage of being a longtime D.C. streetwalker like Joe Biden, Rotten Rodham or ...Lindsey Graham? is supposed to be. They learn by doing. xp

just a few tens of thousands here n' there, Shakes, he has a stake in all the ongoing bloodbaths

You should maybe check the body counts of some of those conflicts over the course of o's tenure

Or are you blaming him for syria too

do we sing Rotten Rodham to the tune of Rockin' Robin?

let's go out on a limb and say hill gets the nom. Biden is not gonna be a veep. Sanders as veep doesn't sound likely. Warren is a double female ticket, too risky. Who goes on the ticket? Booker?

― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, September 25, 2015 3:17 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

leading candidates:
Bennet
Castro
Kaine

my choice is Neil deGrasse Tyson

Republican presidents are the only thing that get most Democrats angry and into the streets, aside from 100% useless "climate marches"

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:00 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"into the streets" lol. keep it ruh, doc.

P.S. suggest you stay in your lane/stick to what you know and direct your commentary to someone who hasn't marched under the ("useless" btw) they-think-it-means-something-other-than-Bureau of Land Management banner in the past year or gotten in a cop's face in the past month

"Biden's not getting in, would be a disaster and an embarrassment to anyone who doesn't follow Beltway politics."

actually anyone who follows Beltway politics thinks he's more likely to run than not

They trotted Biden out for that embarrassing Global Citizen concert today, to try to take some of that sweet young stuff from Uncle Bernie.

How about all this Valerie Jarrett leaking Hillary emails stuff? Other than to destroy HRC, what's the endgame here, do the DNC's bidding and bump her for Joe?

Bernie: White Liberals Like Him! (myself included)

But guess what, fools, white people have voted Republican in all but one of every election for the past 50 years, and Bill got them by just a single point plurality in '96. Unless and until he can a) get the attention of, b) get the trust of, and c) inspire Obama/Clinton-level turnout among blacks and hispanics who I'm sorry do not respond to a message about "income inequality" that resonates most with people like you (and me) - the highly-educated and otherwise relatively privileged but underpaid (or so our privilege insists) - a vote for Bernie is a vote for Jeb or whoever the backup plan turns out to be.

luckily for me i live in NY so i don't need to get out there to decide a close one

I mean, not that the gentry vs the aristocracy isn't a noble cause, but it's not exactly your ideal sales pitch to a much wider electorate

inspire Obama/Clinton-level turnout among blacks and hispanics who I'm sorry do not respond to a message about "income inequality" that resonates most with people like you (and me)

agree that any dem nom will need voters of color in late numbers, but disagree that Sanders talking about income inequality is not the right message. Considering who is most affected by racial pay gaps, it's a very strong message. Clinton has almost 25 years of campaigning and name recognition to her credit. Sanders, at least for most folks, just got here.

Yeah, if Sanders was actually campaigning against 'racial pay gaps', that would be a strong message.

Oh good its our weekly gabbneb shit dump

yeah NdGT seems like a really smart chill guy who would make a great vice president

guess what, fools!

Ta-nehisi Coates for veep. Though only if he'd still have time to write Black Panther.