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

considering how paranoid his base is about the illuminati doing population control i'm amazed he went there

god help me i'm still amused by trump just winging it and pulling shit out of his ass. "we're gonna have a fantastic economy"'.

there'll be money if you raise the payroll tax cap, you stupid fuck

He's somewhat tautological. How do the fix the economy? Have a great economy!

The one simple trick

lol christie walking a tightrope between dismissing and endorsing carson's batshit end medicare idea.

They still need to get half those people off the stage. So many are hanging around with 1% because of who's leading, and because of the 2012 taking-turns-in-the-lead craziness.

Someone will speak, and you've literally forgotten about him/her because they last spoke 30 minutes ago.

spoilers rand!

liberty thrives when your daddy's a rich congressman

yeah that many ppl on stage remains a disaster

god what a waste of time and energy

"I wanna talk to the folks at home"

carson "i just want to thank the audience"

The debate within the debate: whose parents sacrificed more.

I wish Ted had started seguing into Eminem lyrics

"You're such a lovely audience we'd love to take you home with us we'd love to take you home." - Bob Marley, I think

lol TRUMP

Oh god Ben go away

"Just for the record, Mr. Trump just made up every single thing he said."

That was great: "We come out here, and we do our thing."

bottom up!

"We're not here for ourselves..."

My 14-yr old son, at end of debate: "All these people say government shouldn't do anything, but they want to spend years of their lives leading our government. It makes no sense."

Is there still time for your 14 year old to throw his hat in the ring?

lol

If your son were to raise that troublesome detail at one of the debates, an apoplectic audience would converge on him as one and beat him senseless, and then the debate would resume.

It makes perfect sense to me. Who doesn't want to get paid to do nothing?

What does your son think about all these candidates complaining about too much government control and regulation while at the same time calling for new constitutional bans and restrictive laws?

He's pacing himself. There's only so much magical thinking a young man can let himself get exasperated by.

BTW, Carl Bernstein just now, on why this was a momentous night for the GOP: "The Democrats are now going to have to explain...why government should continue to exist!"

When it does nothing! Literally nothing at all!

like Teri Schiavo!

538:

Debate clock:

Rubio: 8:44
Fiorina: 8:37
Kasich: 8:06
Trump: 7:44
Cruz: 6:52
Christie: 6:30
Huckabee: 5:47
Carson: 5:28
Paul: 5:03
Bush: 4:56

Would like to be there for the next Bush strategy session.

they did seem like a bunch of puppies pushing their way in for some tit. i'm surprised bush is that low and kasich is that high though. could've predicted paul near the bottom and rubio and fiorina near the top. would've guess trump was lower also but more cuz i was slightly surprised he could disappear for stretches. i missed the 'french workweek' zinger jeb lobbed at rubio that apparently backfired.

Jeb's suit sure looked fucked up.

All those photos of Jeb! over the past few months looking unhappy and mildly exasperated, basically rolling his eyes as he stands in front of rooms full of voters, or frozen-faced with a thousand mile stare, are starting to look emblematic of his whole campaign. He's cooked.

Jeb and several of the others are playing a long game, each waiting for the others' faults to become more apparent than they already are. Rubio still looks quite green to me, certainly less wooden than Bush, but not much less canned, and he has yet to prove himself able to obtain more than about 15% in an old-leaning party that devotes a lot of energy to hating hispanics. That could change very quickly, but Bush, however weak in presentation or even theory of the case, has a whole lot of powder to keep dry and is still arguably the #1 candidate on paper.

rip jeb u will always have good apple brand devices so dont be too sad https://vine.co/v/erX66WYXx6p

3:30 mark: deer, headlights, etc.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000439490

Trump's hilarious a few seconds later (took me a couple of tries to hear what he was saying): "I told you they did not like each other..."

If Jeb! were not a Bush and not running for president, I'm sure I would find his palpable awkwardness endearing.

Please stay interested and hang around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpbQJW3ye6w

he's talking about Kasich, not Huckabee, right? the title of that vid confused me

haha Trump: nastiness gets him to the moral highground top, where he can safely accuse the people under him of being nasty to get ahead. What a dick.

That's how you win Josh. He's a winner.

Boorish swagger and a small million dollar loan is all it takes for the rancid cream to rise to the top.

new thread title

I know we hate all of these people, but if we had to pick one that was the most palateable based on this debate, who would it be? Kasich for me, followed by Rubio or Christie.

I was intrigued about the truth behind the Rubio tax plan since that exchange got pretty testy. Predictably, conservative outlets are claiming Rubio was right, Harwood had to change his claim (and Harwood did tweet a correction about lowest income earners, which is what Rubio started talking about) but Harwood wasn't asking about lowest income earners, the question was explicitly about middle income earners.

Also Jeb is just getting creepy now, with is "warm kiss" and Supergirl is hot. Yeesh, dad.

they were all fucking crazy and had no appeal