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

we're comparing degrees of loathsome sacks of human garbage though

I wouldn't be surprised if Christie doesn't bother

then again, looks like he's set to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/25/report-chris-christie-to-announce-presidential-campaign-next-week/

If Bobby Jindal is going through with a run, then none of these clowns are taking it off the table.

Have to assume "I might get to be the next president" is low on the reasons a lot of these republicans are running this year

Piyush and Christie kinda similar really - once lauded as a new, different kind of "get things done" GOP governors w national potential who have seen their accomplishments fade and their approval ratings sink. If neither of them can make it on the national stage, where do they go from here? Nowhere to go but down, really - or out of sight racking up consulting fees.

xp

It's like American idol where winning means being tied to a shitty contract but competing just means lots of publicity

Spending the next 16 months compiling their Fox News audition tape and getting someone else to pay for it -- couldn't be a sweeter grift.

To that end, Fuckabee already had his own Fox show and left it to run. He's not going to win a single state this time.

otoh Fox give Sarah Palin the boot. Space is limited.

kinda wierd Palin *isn't* running. I mean at this point, why not?

Her leaving an elected office midterm to do fuck all probably hurt her chances even within the crazy base.

well she had already accomplished all of her goals in office

ie, she had put everything in the office in plastic bags and moved it to her house

I think Charles Pierce had that one right - running a full campaign rather than being parachuted in at the last minute would be too much like work.

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I do find Obama/Hillary crowing about this to be p disingenuous given their records

True. However, I suspect they were on board with the concept for a while before they were publicly on board with the concept, because they are politicians.

"However" sort of implies that that's a mitigating factor, but it surely ain't.

whither "leadership"

yeah i mean lincoln pretended he didnt want to end slavery for a long time and no one believed him not sure if ppl r still mad at him abt that

hmm how well did that strategy work out for Lincoln and the country can you remind me

slavery ended

i dunno, i figure obama was playing a long game and history will recognize that, as it largely has with lincoln

(not that obama can claim the same sort of credit, and not to claim that the liberations in question are equally momentous)

In an appearance on Sean Hannity's radio show on Friday, Cruz, who is running for president, made it clear he thought the rulings represented a sad moment for America.

"Today is some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history," Cruz said after Hannity asked how he was doing

poor guy

I wonder what the other dark hours were

That day his 5th grade teacher gave him a D on a grammar assignment.

heh

"today is some of" is such a horrible trainwreck

that construction makes me think of "i can has..."

I can has presidency?

hmm how well did that strategy work out for Lincoln and the country can you remind me

― Οὖτις,

are you really questioning this as strategy? Border state revolt, likely northern Democratic revolt -- not sure what he could've done, especially as he kept a coalition together that was FAR more radical than he between 1865-1868.

Not entirely serious but civil war + dead president is kinda a weird example of an optimal outcome

Also disingenuous to suggest o and hillary had as much on the line w gay marriage as lincoln did w slavery, and neither had the foresight or instincts that lincoln did.

~results~

(sorry morbs)

Not entirely serious but civil war + dead president is kinda a weird example of an optimal outcome

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we are standing at the precipice of a truly moronic alternate history i can feel it

What if.. Robert Bork had been president in 1861?

http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/inline/2015/06/3047747-inline-i-8b-2016s-presidential-hopefuls-redesigned-as-black-metal-bands-copy.jpg

lol

What if.. Robert Bork had been president in 1861?

― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino),

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/176729/judge-bork-martinis-kathryn-jean-lopez

Right now, George Pataki is thinking 'Look at these schmoes - maybe I should run.'

'Look at these schmoes - maybe I should run. hey, I'M A SCHMOE TOO!'

god, i hope trump can keep this up for a few more weeks. having him in the GOP debates would be amazing

http://deadline.com/2015/06/nbc-donald-trump-cancels-miss-usa-miss-universe-1201461913/

The reporting is a little bit ambiguously worded, because while it's clear that they've dropped the pageants, it also states that it's keeping its relationship with the Mark Burnett company which produces Celebrity Apprentice.

yeah was wondering how this was going to work out:

The network said that it has already begun exploring ways to air future seasons of the reality series "Celebrity Apprentice" without Trump as host. Reality show producer Mark Burnett continues to work on that show. "The Apprentice," which Trump also hosted and does not feature celebrities, is on hiatus.

Aww man... just looking at that 2012 chart up aways... Jon Huntsman was the only likeable guy running in the GOP, of course he was universally hated. Funny cause if had switched to the Dems the DLC probably would have funded him all the way to Veep, you know there's a large Dem. constituency that wets itself at the idea of slightly more liberal Jack Kemp.

interesting

I wouldn't have expected the donor base to tilt so far - p much ensures she'll continue her lefty populist schtick

hey i need to go on the record somewhere as saying i think chris christie will win the nomination
i just need to say it. i need to be on the record, laughed out of town, humiliated, i need to elicit eventually-historically-ironic responses, like all the conversation in the first twenty minutes of titanic. i still just feel like people love a strident muscular guy, & that any variation from such in a democratic nominee will mean they can double down on it.

Muscular?