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

Looks like a winning ticket. One-Sock Baby / Two-Sock Baby '16! Make America Poopy Again.

I have been getting a lot of junk e-mails from John Kasich

Ben Carson, a Republican presidential hopeful, on Wednesday blasted Democrats’ various plans for debt-free or tuition-free college, saying they would hasten “the destruction of the nation.”

Speaking at Liberty University, Carson warned against the dangers of uninformed voters who would believe “propaganda” from “unscrupulous politicians and news media.”

“If they don’t really understand the financial situation of the country and somebody comes along and says, ‘free college for everybody,’ they’ll say, ‘oh, what a wonderful person,’” Carson said. “They have no idea that all you’re talking about is hastening the destruction of the nation.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/12/free-college-would-destroy-nation-ben-carson-says

school bad money good

Speaking at Liberty University = Profile in Courage

http://theslot.jezebel.com/look-away-from-jeb-bush-trying-to-chest-bump-someone-t-1742103242

Weird, I doubt it would bankrupt our country *if* the education they receive is worthwhile. In fact it would probably be the opposite.

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ah my neighborhood:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CToPL4TUcAEnK4y.jpg

What do they have against Slayer fans?

also, isn't that already an anti-Trump piece?

two Cuban-American Republicans fighting over who hates other Latinos more feels both totally predictable and bafflingly strange

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also, isn't that already an anti-Trump piece?

it obviously is, it's just been embellished

drawing dicks on things is the american way

Drawing dicks on things is the new flag pin. Look for candidates calling one another out for failing to do so.

Double credit for drawing Dick Cheney

So sucking dick with Slayer written across your forehead is a negative? Well there goes my Veterans Day celebration for next year.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxLqtxlIAAEH5Wc.jpg

^NSFanywhere really

looool

Bless you, forks. O brave intertubular world, in which if it can be imagined, someone has 'shopped it. Rule 34 and all. My nightmares are complete now.

http://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-black-lives-matter-154347747.html

I assume he was *this* close to saying "black lives don't matter"

carson has his own intelligence apparatus in syria, damn

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/664891597474111488

Great, article writer doesn't actually say if murder threats were a part or not. Maybe Christie thinks Tarantino is their main spokesman?

Tarantino hasn't called for the murder of cops either!

I know! However, ask every dickheaded police union spokesman of a major American city, and guess what they'll say

"that guy was resisting arrest"?

"there's a war on cops"?

GOP elites shocked that the GOP primary electorate likes the populist crazyballs candidates, round XVI

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/time-for-gop-panic-establishment-worried-carson-and-trump-might-win/2015/11/12/38ea88a6-895b-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html

Most sources attributed, this anonymous one was my favorite though. Hilary would not just win in a landslide vs. Trump or Carson but her Wall St. constituency would probably break her way too.

The apprehension among some party elites goes beyond electability, according to one Republican strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the worries.

“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,” this strategist said. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?”

The Mario kart banana slip noise automatically emerged out of the ether when I read that

dickheaded police union spokesman

but i repeat myself...

How stupid are the people of Iowa?" Trump said. "How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/12/donald-trump-delivers-95-minute-rant-on-everything-thats-wrong-in-this-race

http://youtu.be/RDrfE9I8_hs

someone needs to get trump some watermelons, and a sledgehammer.

that china video is a lovely work of art

http://images.washingtonpost.com/%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A//img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/files/2015/11/Belt.gif%26op%3Dnoop

http://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/files/2015/11/Belt.gif

Other Latinos

Guess this will text the theory that trump is gaffe proof

Test

He signed a book for an audience member and then threw it off the stage.

damn

Those two WaPo articles are appropriately bonkers. Prophesying a total "be careful what you wish for" GOP scenario, both for voters and for ... actually, Carson and "I'd rather be right and lose than wrong and win" or whatever he says Cruz seem so crazy they're unflappable. They're like Obi Wan deluded: if you strike me down I will be more powerful than ever, or whatever. Trump, I bet he'll keep campaigning even after he's out or loses, because no one will have the heart to tell him it's over.

poor poor establishment republicans

In that weird Trump speech he insists America needs an "unpredictable" president. Yeah, that's just what we need.

it's really too bad this is all shaking out a year from the election. these clowns (est. GOP, mainstream-ish conservative media) absolutely deserve to be dealing with this right down to the wire

it's really too bad this is all shaking out a year from the election. these clowns (est. GOP, mainstream-ish conservative media) absolutely deserve to be dealing with this right down to the wire

This is the part I find so baffling, is when political pros (and the journalists who worshipfully quote them) treat all this insane bullshit with so much urgency, like it's a problem that's got to be solved right now or we're all dooooooooooooommmmmed. The first primaries aren't for another 12 weeks. Let the games continue!

They're concerned about the framing of the debate; they want to be seen as a serious alternative to the options on the Democrat side of the election and if there's been a months-long run-up of nonsense and buffoonery before the Democrats and Republicans engage with each other, whoever the Republican candidate is will be painted with that brush, either in terms of their actual positions or what people will assume him to represent (I say him because we're pretty sure Fiorina isn't coming back, right?).

Like, if you spend all of college doing naked keg stands for every camera that comes your way, everyone will remember you as Naked Keg-Stander and possibly not take you as seriously as you might want them to later on.

well they shit the bed, now they gotta sleep in it

I don't disagree, but OTOH having two credible parties is kind of critical for the health of a 2-party system and the longer this persists, the worse it is for the entire country.

Especially when the less-credible party has a structural advantage in the legislature.

for now

idk what's gonna happen w the GOP tbh, neither party has been this adrift in my lifetime