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

wish Norman Mailer was still alive

kasich apparently unaware that something like 75 percent of russians are orthodox christian

One of the lol points in that NYT piece is how Bush is set up as the guy who can have his pick of foreign policy eminences and whose father probably gave Clarridge a few jobs when the father ran the CIA.

like, Clarridge is not more outrageous than Kristol, Wolfowitz, etc -- all Reagan-Bush people.

sounds like bobby j is done

It only took him six years

Just searched his name for a related news story. Nothing about dropping out, but I did learn that he had an "exorcism problem."

Exorcism is a solution not a problem

https://twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/666756346151325697

There are isolated cases where exorcism, by not becoming part of the solution, becomes part of the problem.

that should be an opening line of a trailer

that clarridge video is a taste of real evil

RIP Bobby J, kids table's gonna be lonely without you

otm @ "national security interest" being a divine right

Any chance they'll finally just pull the plug on the kids' table debate concept, with Jindal out and Graham and Pataki not even coming close to qualifying for the last one? Dunno if that would mean letting Christie and Huckabee back into the big one or cutting them loose with Santorum. I suppose it's more likely that they just shift around the bar for entry to the big one - Christie and Huck are going nowhere in this campaign but they have name recognition and might still be seen as worth it, ratings-wise? I have no idea what priorities are in play when they decide these things though.

tbh I have stopped giving a fuck about the debates on both sides - feels like nothing's at stake, just a lot of wheel spinning. how many more are there anyway?

jeff

i mean, like a dozen more at least

yer gonna miss Giuliani ripping off his Hillary mask, Shakey

again, why is graham even 'running'? he must hate being a senator

Jindal said "this is not my time"

everyone customize your own joke

Jindal 2020: Y'all Ready for This?

"this is not my the end times"

Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday expressed his support for a growing contingent of governors who are against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States — but he shared an incorrect graphic of the lower 48 states in the process.

Carson's campaign shared the botched map, which transposed much of New England above New Hampshire, on Twitter and Facebook.

http://a5.img.talkingpointsmemo.com/image/upload/w_652/yhjotf07bjc7i6zfk7cn.jpg

how does a map like this even get made? there are millions of maps of the United States out there. I'm willing to bet that not a single one looks like this. WTF

Vermont's the only one completely out of place, right? With the rest of NE scooted over a bit.

And boy, does #BC2DC16 ever just roll off the tongue like honey.

i guess it could have happened to anyone...and yet it has never happened to anyone, ever

If they had posted the correct map, they could've kept Maine within the borders.

Maybe there's a secret message to all this.

Vermont's the only one completely out of place, right? With the rest of NE scooted over a bit.

Vermont is the only New England state in the correct place!

carson has a great team working for him.

"let's see...the map won't fit, so i'll just photoshop some states around!"

This isn't right either... right? which transposed much of New England above New Hampshire

I mean, the only thing above New Hampshire is Maine.

Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Wednesday joined a growing contingent of governors who stood in a circle around a homeless man and pissed in his face. Carson's campaign shared a picture of the homeless man's face, which was missing an eye, had an ear where the nose should be, and was actually a picture of an unrelated woman. "I am a Spiderman who can fly and who has wizard powers," remarked Carson.

some scientists say that's what the country looks like

lol the map switches wyoming and colorado for some reason too

lmao @ that map

After this is all over, I hope that someone writes a very detailed book about Carson's campaign. For posterity.

There we go. That should fix things.

http://i.imgur.com/uu5HCDt.jpg

Can we redesign the United States too?

Vermont's the only one completely out of place, right? With the rest of NE scooted over a bit.

― pplains, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:51 AM (27 minutes ago

vermont is one of the most liberal states in the country. bernie sanders is one of their senators...

re: pplains's map: Take THAT, Canada! Whattya gonna do about it, send in the MOUNTIES?

Vermont's the only one completely out of place, right? With the rest of NE scooted over a bit.

― pplains, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 9:51 AM (27 minutes ago

vermont is one of the most liberal states in the country. bernie sanders is one of their senators...

― k3vin k., Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:19 AM (4 minutes ago)

wait sorry i misunderstood what you were talking about nvm

I'm waiting for the revelation that Ben Carson actually subscribes to an obscure fundamentalist reading of plate tectonics, in which New England is actually part of Europe that is in the process of slowly drifting back home.

I could almost buy into that.

xxpost It's an easy mistake to make, as the situation under discussion is outside the realm of believability.

xpost well yeah. God is going to shift the blue states into the Atlantic and then global warming will drown them.

@nytpolitics
Correction: Carson aides say he needs weekly foreign policy briefings to "make him smart"; didn't say he'd had them nyti.ms/1luGriz

zing

ha ha I need a gym membership to make me a hunk

Why does he need policy briefings to make himself smart? Isn't he a brain surgeon?

his aides are the best

also not very helpful apparently