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

Carson should have gotten a sideways dig in at Trump: "Believe me, my plans to defeat the Islamic State are effective."

"I've defeated the Islamic State before..."

"... and not just in a green room"

The five Radical Islams that I'm going to eliminate during my presidency are ISIS, Daesh, ISIL, the Islamic State, and ISIL.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/chris-christie-cant-believe-that-the-paris-attackers-werent-syrian-refugees/

ugh no

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/19/amid-republican-calls-for-force-hillary-clinton-will-present-her-plan-to-battle-isis/?_r=0

huh weird the link header said she was calling for ground troops, yet she is not actually quoted saying such

way to go NYT

sounds like carsonsplainin' to Muslims up there

hillsplainin' to come

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/19/bernie-sanders-to-invoke-roosevelt-in-speech-defining-his-vision-of-democratic-socialism/

lol: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/after-paris-we-should-look-to-chris-christie/2015/11/18/9077dbea-8d58-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html

Lennon as ISIS supporter is classick (is his wife advising Christie?)

Lennon, as bad a political thinker as he was a grammarian, never learned this: Countries, meaning nation-states, are, for all their shortcoming and dangers, indispensable for making self-government possible and secure.

shit, he's right, why didn't John learn this in school

Sanders RS interview

Clearly, one of the factors that influenced my life was the knowledge, as a kid, that my dad's family – and probably my mother's as well, but I knew more about my dad – that many members of his family were killed by Hitler. So what you learn, not intellectually when you're seven years of age, but it goes into your emotional, instinctual base, is that politics makes a difference. Hitler and the Nazis were elected to office in Germany. And 50 million people died in that war, including 6 million Jews.

That's why many African-Americans pay attention to politics in a different way. Politics meant that segregation and lynching existed in this country. And that's why African-Americans are very sensitive to what goes on in politics. And the same thing with Jewish people. That is how, instinctually, if you like, or emotionally, I gravitated into politics.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-20151118

george will is such a colossal dipshit

I read that column as Georgie-boy fishing for a job for his wife

^^ yep

For an example of pluperfect unseriousness, consider this Trump claim

"pluperfect unseriousness" eat my butt nerd

no candidate in the Republican field can match Christie’s combination of a prosecutor’s bearing and a governor’s executive temperament.

lmao

unreal, the fuck is he kidding.

who else but Chris Christie can combine the assholishness of a New Jersey prosecutor with the corruption of a New Jersey governor???

actually probably more than half the field but the point stands

lol

his whole brand, even to people who like him, is a redfaced prick. bearing? what

Will's belief that it strengthens his critique of Lennon to take a dig at the grammar in his lyrics is both touching and pathetic.

lol UMS

Aimless are you not familiar with the lyrical heights attained by Will's deep catalog of pop hits

his whole brand, even to people who like him, is a redfaced prick.

― goole, Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:31 PM

Christie's too!

Children are not working in factories and they're not working in the fields, but you have millions of families today who do not know how they're gonna feed their kids tonight. That's a fact. So many of these problems remain, maybe not as severe. But his vision is a vision that I share.

Including an "overthrow of the capitalist system"?

No, no, no. Now you're being provocative. If you follow my campaign, have you heard me talk about overthrowing the capitalist economic system?

No, I haven't.

little known fact: when composing his mellifluous prose, George Will listens exclusively to the grammatically correct song stylings of Orrin Hatch

He used to dig Springsteen:

In the course of a clumsy encomium, Will managed to contort the experience beyond recognition, ending in a burst of free market bluster: "If all Americans--in labor and management, who make steel or cars or shoes or textiles--made their products with as much energy and confidence as Springsteen and his merry band make music, there would be no need for Congress to be thinking about protectionism." In other words, if you find slapping bumpers onto compact cars less fulfilling than singing rock and roll songs in front of adoring masses, fuck off.

http://www.rockrap.com/archive/archiv17.html

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GeorgeWill.jpg

cover shot for Will's debut album "Where There's a Will, There's a Way"

Will to Power

looool

I Will

that one's only funny if you read it with a silly voice, sorry

Springsteen and his merry band

Just wanted to see that again.

http://usercontent1.hubimg.com/7497350.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/GeorgeWillLST.jpg

well done

Beautiful.

A+

I've Got My Own Column To Do

Skipping 7686 messages at this point....

surely we need a new thread?

good idea

keep thinking about that, then checking the number of candidates still in the field and going "nah, we're still on board the clown car." i guess eventually it might get down to more a beverly hillbillies car? i really didn't think anybody else was going to pack it in until iowa, but then jindal dropped and who knows, maybe graham, pataki and all-star gilmore will shortly decide it's "not their time."

Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

surely the clown car has taken a beating and needs to be traded in for a slightly newer model?

xpost

:)

was gonna go with busload but buttload seemed more appropriate somehow