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pangstrom posted:Palin in an Anglerfish Ted Cruz could have been Blobfish
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 20:51 |
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 23:41 |
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Alter Ego posted:Ted Cruz could have been Blobfish The Lowest Common Denominator in Jokes Department insists that be reserved for Chris Christie.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 20:52 |
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Christie's already Pufferfish. He got a name. You can't have two names, duh
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 20:53 |
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Alter Ego posted:Christie's already Pufferfish. He got a name. You can't have two names, duh Whoops, missed that. Guess I got too caught up in fish tales.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 20:56 |
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Fishconsin is the lowest effort codename. Might as well have gone with "Ahfuckitfish".
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 21:04 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Fishconsin is the lowest effort codename. Might as well have gone with "Ahfuckitfish". Ahfuckitfish was McCaine's.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 21:08 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Fishconsin is the lowest effort codename. Might as well have gone with "Ahfuckitfish". And it's not as if there's any lack of Paul Ryan fish material. It's almost as if the Romney campaign was full of unimaginative hacks....
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 21:09 |
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:Which book is this? Guessing double down but is "Obamans" really the language they use?
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 21:17 |
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All republicans are flounder.
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# ? Nov 1, 2013 21:47 |
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Deteriorata posted:The article seems to suggest it was Daley's idea, at least, without input from Obama. It may have been something Daley would have suggested to Obama had the numbers worked, but was quietly dropped when it didn't.
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 09:03 |
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Oh my, and who ended up getting replaced after all?
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 15:30 |
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Fun article in the NYT about the growing (and bitter) rivalry between two of the GOP's fresher faces expected to compete in 2016quote:Republican Rivalry Simmers as Paths and Styles Diverge
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 15:35 |
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Joementum posted:And it's not as if there's any lack of Paul Ryan fish material. Wasn't aware that Ryan was into bass to mouth.
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 16:04 |
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FMguru posted:Ooooh, this should be fun. Both of them will spend the next two years trying to top each other with dumb stunts (filibusters, shutdowns, calls for impeachement, etc.) to show that they are True Blue Real Deal Fightin' Conservative and the other guy is a squish. Rand Paul having to prove his evangelical bona fides will be source of much laughs, too (will he speak in tongues? handle snakes? tell a story about a time he drove out demons with his prayers?)
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# ? Nov 2, 2013 17:22 |
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Alter Ego posted:Christie's already Pufferfish. He got a name. You can't have two names, duh After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!" HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Nov 3, 2013 |
# ? Nov 3, 2013 01:44 |
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Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. Wasn't he already known as the guy who screams and curses at people 99% of the time?
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 01:45 |
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ThirdPartyView posted:Wasn't he already known as the guy who screams and curses at people 99% of the time? Teachers especially. It's kind of his "thing". They also always happen to be women.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 01:47 |
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Joementum posted:Teachers especially. It's kind of his "thing". They also always happen to be women.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 01:51 |
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It boggles me that people actually like that in a governor.Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!"
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 01:59 |
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Lycus posted:I can't stop looking at that woman next to him and her malevolent smile. That's his wife, Mary Pat Foster Christie.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 02:01 |
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Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!" Aside: I'm glad someone finally installed a mobile interface that was worse than iOS 7.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 02:04 |
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Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him I am pretty sure what you did to that segue is banned by international treaties.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 02:21 |
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At least 2 Democratic VP potentials have the ability to royally wreck GOP poo poo. Castro putting Texas into play is one of them. The other is Brian Sweitzer, he of the veto branding iron, locking down the west. He is such a showman that Hillary could win the general without crossing the Mississippi.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 16:35 |
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Vice Presidential candidates don't meaningfully affect polling or election results, including in their home states.quote:Vice-presidential picks have had at most a small influence on modern presidential elections. They have not provided a consistent boost to the ticket in pre-election polling—and Ryan’s pick did not give Romney one. They also have provided, at best, a very modest boost to the ticket on Election Day, both overall and in their home states. Political science studies have confirmed this over the years. The question was not whether Ryan himself would matter but how his selection might have affected broader aspects of messaging and strategy — both Romney’s and Obama’s — and thereby shifted the dynamics of the race. Also too, Schweitzer was scared out of even running for Senate in his home state because of some shady PAC deals. He's basically waiting to get an appointment to Interior in a future administration at this point.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 16:42 |
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Thanks for not using the word "game-samers".
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 16:48 |
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Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!" That will help with the Republican base, as Republicans have an arbitrary hatred (because they're rear end in a top hat bullies) of public school teachers.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 16:51 |
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The last vice presidential pick who helped carry an otherwise unusual state for the party was Al Gore in 1992/6, and even then Clinton likely would have won in TN anyway. I get the feeling that if VP nominations mattered so much, we'd see picks in battleground states every election. Instead most in the past 30 years have come from safely blue/red states and have been mostly about image and/or broadening a candidate's appeal.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 16:55 |
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Julian Castro does not put Texas in play in 2016, that's just not how it works. Few people outside of Bexar County particularly care who the mayor of San Antonio is, and marginally-increased Democratic voter turnout in San Antonio isn't going to push the needle in Texas anytime soon. People seriously overestimate Battleground Texas and the situation on the ground there. Texas is changing, but not fast enough to give Hillary Clinton or whomever more than ~44-45% of the vote in 2016.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:07 |
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Patter Song posted:Julian Castro does not put Texas in play in 2016, that's just not how it works. Few people outside of Bexar County particularly care who the mayor of San Antonio is, and marginally-increased Democratic voter turnout in San Antonio isn't going to push the needle in Texas anytime soon. Yeah, I think there has to be some massive "get Hispanic voters registered and caring about voting" event in Texas as a necessary intermediate step to converting demographic potential into electoral potential, and it hasn't happened yet. Whether a really good campaign for Senate or Governor by an appealing candidate like one of the Castro brothers could catalyze this remains to be seen. So for now, Texas demographics is the "sleeping Democratic giant" like all the factories and industry making cars and sheet metal in America Yamamoto saw when he visited the country pre WWII.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:15 |
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Newt Gingrich thinks that Chris Christie is too fat and too egotistical.quote:A presidential candidate himself in 2012, Gingrich also said the cautious Mitt Romney would have never selected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for his running mate. He called Christie a “wild prosecutor with a huge body and a huge ego,” and said the governor would have overshadowed Romney on the campaign trail.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:36 |
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I think Chris Christie might have a hard time playing the adult in the room with the lineup we've got brewing. Cruz pushes the crazy train so far right he makes his colleagues look sane. Add in a few more troglodytes like Santorum and Perry, and you'll see us settle on "serious about the budget/civil liberties" candidates Paul and/or Rand. Chris Christie will be consigned to 2016's Huntsman.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:42 |
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Don't sell Christie short, he can be both of the adults in the room at the same time by volume.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:44 |
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Highspeeddub posted:After today Christie will also be known as the guy who shouts at teachers when they ask him a legitimate question. This NJ teacher asked him why he called New Jersey public schools 'failure factories' when public schools in that state have consistently ranked in the top ten in the nation for years. Christie wagged his finger at her and shouted, "What do you people want? Just do your jobs!" This is why Christie will never be President.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 17:45 |
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TheBalor posted:Chris Christie will be consigned to 2016's Huntsman. Let's not go overboard here. Christie's going to have top tier money and full name recognition, and if Huntsman ever got to that point he would have been a serious player.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:07 |
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jeffersonlives posted:Let's not go overboard here. Christie's going to have top tier money and full name recognition, and if Huntsman ever got to that point he would have been a serious player. Fair enough, and no election is exactly a repeat of another. Still, I do feel that if the expected gain materialize in the house and senate, the base will see it as a vindication of their attacks on all untrue scotsmen. They're not going to be in the mood to be told that they need to let someone like Christie take the ball home.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:10 |
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TheBalor posted:They're not going to be in the mood to be told that they need to let someone like Christie take the ball home. Much like 2012, and 2008, and 2000, and 1988/92. The base can whine all they like, but when Christie dumps $20m onto the Iowa airwaves we'll see how they fare. And Christie is actually a somewhat base-friendlier candidate than Romney, McCain, and the Bushes were.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:15 |
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TheBalor posted:Fair enough, and no election is exactly a repeat of another. Still, I do feel that if the expected gain materialize in the house and senate, the base will see it as a vindication of their attacks on all untrue scotsmen. They're not going to be in the mood to be told that they need to let someone like Christie take the ball home. They're not going to be in the mood no matter what happens, but it's been a very long time since the Republican base actually got the guy they wanted in a presidential primary, and it isn't like they haven't tried.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:16 |
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Joementum posted:Newt Gingrich thinks that Chris Christie is too fat and too egotistical. Please oh wise mr. Gingrich, tell us more of these men with bloated ego's and ditto bodies.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:25 |
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The VP may not bring you votes, but they can certainly drive them away. Exhibit A: Sarah Palin.
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# ? Nov 3, 2013 18:28 |
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Joementum posted:Much like 2012, and 2008, and 2000, and 1988/92. The base can whine all they like, but when Christie dumps $20m onto the Iowa airwaves we'll see how they fare. The rise of the Tea Party, as much as it was a 100% astroturfed rebranding of the GOP base cosplaying as recently-energized common sense independents, poses a threat because it's convinced a number of Republican base voters to identify themselves as free-thinkin' independents who aren't beholden to the corrupt and compromised GOP. The base could move in all kinds of weird directions in 2016, and that's a particular problem for the GOP because their viable electoral window just keeps getting narrower and narrower. Pretty much everything has to break right for them to win a Presidential election in the current demographic environment, and an erratic base in the last thing they need.
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