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US President 2016 - the Great Horse Race

providing they pick a decent candidate.
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And who might that be? In the crowd this year there is not one who inspires the kind of confidence Romney did.
 
Sarpedon said:
providing they pick a decent candidate.
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And who might that be? In the crowd this year there is not one who inspires the kind of confidence Romney did.
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Bill Kristol thinks that if Hillary gets the Democrat nod, then the Republicans should run Dick Cheney against her, as if he had not already served two terms as president. I think they should take his advice, I would love to see them shoot themselves in the foot again.
 
Tigers! said:
lpetrich said:
In recent decades, politicians have started running for US President earlier and earlier. Here's how far it's gone: two days after 2012 Election Day
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Put your handicapper out to stud. He is obviously incompetent.
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In 2006, a few days after the Congressional elections, Tom Vilsack announced that he was running for the Democratic nomination in 2008. He was an unknown that went nowhere. I don't think that the candidates with a more realistic shot will be formally announcing that far in advance, but it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually came to that.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15635323/ns/politics/t/iowa-governor-announces-white-house-bid/#.VTEKi7l0w5s
 
I'm pretty sure that Hillary starting running for 2016 about five minutes after she finished her hissy fit and grudgingly conded defeat back in the 2008 primaries.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
I'm pretty sure that Hillary starting running for 2016 about five minutes after she finished her hissy fit and grudgingly conded defeat back in the 2008 primaries.
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You may be right, but I was thinking in terms of formal announcements.
 
No one else in the Democrat Party would come anywhere close to defeating her this time around. It will be Bill's cheated on wife against whoever the GOP put up against her.
 
Is there a method to Rand Paul’s temper tantrums? Amanda Marcotte proposes that there is, to get the news media from asking him about issues that he does not like to discuss.
It’s the libertarian thing: Paul gets fussy and starts throwing his pacifiers any time someone prods him over what exactly he means by this “libertarian” thing. Whether it’s when they’re prodding to find out where his supposed libertarianism conflicts with the Republican Party platform or whether it’s when they’re exposing the hypocrisy of a “libertarian” who opposes abortion rights and legalized same-sex marriage, Paul gets angry and insists that their job is to simply glide over any of these friction points.
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She suspects that he wants to be all things to all Republicans, even all voters.

Oh boy, 18 months of hearing conservatives gripe that Hillary Clinton parts her hair wrong
The 2012 election was relatively muted on this front, so many may have forgotten how bad the right gets during the campaign season. The strategy is what I call the “scandal a day” strategy: Every day they dig up something, no matter how silly or inconsequential, to get completely hepped up over in hopes that the mainstream media will pick it up. It doesn’t matter if 90% or 95% of the crap they get worked up over is ignored. As long as they can get some of these stories into the media, they can create the illusion of scandal where none exists, or at least make the public so tired of hearing the target’s name that they decline to turn out for elections. ...

This process gets uglier when a Clinton is in the mix, because the Clintons are really the people that conservatives perfected this strategy with. A lot of people blame the Clintons for this—their secretiveness, their above-it-all behavior—but while that doesn’t help, it’s not really the reason. It’s a timing thing. The Clinton campaign was the first of the cable news era and the Clinton presidency was the first time that conservatives realized that need to fill the 24/7 news cycle made mainstream journalists more willing to talk about faux scandals than they would be if their only barometer was whether or a story actually mattered.
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I remember how they hated Bill Clinton as some sort of left-wing ogre who was just about to send them to Alaskan prison camps for supposedly being enemies of the American people.

Ted Cruz reminds us why knock-offs suck, with his wannabe conservative Obama act
But like a Christian rock song that has the right structure but is lacking any semblance of the grit or soul that sells real rock music, Cruz may hit some of the biographical marks of Obama but he’s utterly lacking Obama’s charm. Instead, his announcement that he’s running for president is making people cringe, because they are not looking forward to many months of wondering how he seems to always be on the verge of ejaculating. ...

Was he masturbating and someone startled him and his face just got stuck that way? It seems so. ...

But at least photoshop enthusiasts have an endless number of pictures to use when grafting his face onto the naked bodies of male porn stars.
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However, Did Ted Cruz Actually Ejaculate into a Cup? Some Thoughts on How We Cover Politics
Libby Anne criticizes Amanda Marcotte about this:
I understand people making fun of politician’s looks in private. I don’t understand why people think it is appropriate to do so on major online news and culture outlets like Raw Story, where Marcotte writes.

Besides, isn’t this making fun of someone for their looks? Aren’t we not supposed to do things like that? How is this all that different from bullying?
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Then AM posted Ted Cruz probably doesn’t listen to any music, except humming tunelessly to himself
From this quote, we learn a couple of things. First, Ted Cruz does not listen to music, any kind of music. People who listen to music don’t talk about music this way...

Second of all, we learn from this that Cruz probably conceived his children by ejaculating joylessly into a cup and handing it over to his wife and, when she blanched, saying, “Do you want to be the First Lady or not? Don’t worry. We only have to make two. Just enough for the photos.”
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Libby Anne slammed that also.
How is this not obviously inappropriate? ... This is petty, and it is pointless, and it feels like middle school.
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lpetrich said:
Is there a method to Rand Paul’s temper tantrums? Amanda Marcotte proposes that there is, to get the news media from asking him about issues that he does not like to discuss.
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Well duh. If you listen you'll notice that reasonable questions are asked and then he gets angry and turns the table, pretty much like a right-wing AM radio host. This is impressive to the right-wing supporters (not standing down against the liberal media), but the general populace won't find it nice at all.
 
I think I finally found a candidate for the Republican nomination who stands out as better than the rest of the pack.

Hillary Clinton as the GOP candidate for the presidency.

Now who will the Democrats run against her?
 
Well now we know who the conservolibertarians want as their useful idiot in the White House:

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/04/20/koch-brothers-signal-support-for-scott-walker/

Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican presidential nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. On Monday, at a fund-raising event in Manhattan for the New York State Republican Party, David Koch told donors that he and his brother, who oversee one of the biggest private political organizations in the country, believed that Mr. Walker was the Republican Party’s best hope for recapturing the White House.
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I have been hearing some bad things about Clinton lately, about her cover up about the Benghazi affair. I think if that's true she's not suited to the top job.
 
Its springtime in Washington for Ted Cruz
Tea party's happy (not gay!)
Slashing services and income tax,
Look out here come the theocrats!

(Apologies to Mel Brooks)
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
angelo said:
I have been hearing some bad things about Clinton lately, about her cover up about the Benghazi affair. I think if that's true she's not suited to the top job.
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You are kidding right?
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Well Benghazi is the worst ever terrorist attack on Americans, and there has been no investigation whatsoever into the tragic loss of 4 American citizens. If I remember correctly that is the most Americans ever killed in a terrorist attack. Certainly the most killed in a Muslim country, and the fact that there has been no hearings on the debacle is troubling, don't you think?
 
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