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Nameless_Steve posted:Just imagine Scott Brown, dejectedly walking along the highway in the pouring rain, attempting to thumb it with no success. Sad piano music plays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VinOIVqWWWA
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Cliff Racer posted:I find Brown a more credible candidate than Warren, not sure why people think she'd run, let alone get the nomination, let alone win the general. He can't win a statewide election. Why would he be a viable nation-wide candidate? He upset a bad candidate to win a special election that no one showed up to, then got humiliated by someone with no political experience, then pulled up stakes and went to New Hampshire--only to eat poo poo once again in another Senate election. Plus, didn't he just re-sign with Fox?
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Joementum posted:If you've got a 35 year old dog, congrats! Box turtles live up to 35 years.
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I was thinking more along the lines of this when I read that comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rccD1EWenio
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The X-man cometh posted:Box turtles live up to 35 years. I don't think Mitch McConnell wants to run though.
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computer parts posted:I don't think Mitch McConnell wants to run though. Yeah really, if McConnell got elected president he might have to actually, you know, do something.
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Cliff Racer posted:He's a purebred so I'm sure its around somewhere. Great, thats just what we need, a president who's inbred.
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Joementum posted:(Jeb's) highest degree is a BA in Latin American Studies from UT Austin. How the hell did this happen when Dubya went to both Yale and Harvard?
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George Pataki spent the day touring New Hampshire. He's a Yale and Columbia grad, for what it's worth.
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Joementum posted:George Pataki spent the day touring New Hampshire. He's a Yale and Columbia grad, for what it's worth. George Pataki, Jesus, he's old enough to have been a proposed presidential candidate on NYPD Blue. Edit: Holy poo poo, he's only 69? Wow.
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If Pataki runs, I think it's only fair that Rudy gives it another shot so they can debate each other.
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Cigar Aficionado posted:How the hell did this happen when Dubya went to both Yale and Harvard? I might be misremembering, but if I'm remembering right Jeb wasn't initially interested in going into politics. He taught ESL as a highschooler and was interested in doing business in Latin America. Plus he'd fallen in love with a Mexican woman so flying off to New England probably wasn't on his to-do list.
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Joementum posted:There's a non-zero chance that Scott Brown is the Republican nominee and Professor Warren is the Democratic nominee. Newt Gingrich will finally get his Lincoln-Douglas debates!
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Joementum posted:His highest degree is a BA in Latin American Studies from UT Austin. We have the same degree!
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Joementum posted:George Pataki spent the day touring New Hampshire. He's a Yale and Columbia grad, for what it's worth. Pataki hasn't been politically relevant for years, and he was governor of a state where you can't be insane. He'll get shredded by the primary meat grinder.
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Alter Ego posted:pulled up stakes and went to New Hampshire--only to eat poo poo once again in another Senate election. All these non-starters making noises about running in 2016 makes me think we're entering a new age where has-beens circle around a Presidential run just to draw attention to themselves and boost their profile and maybe catch on with a deep-pocketed sugar daddy or get a Fox media gig or maybe bump their speaker's fees. 2012 saw a lot of base-enthusiast True Conservative "book tour candidates" looking to boost their Q-levels and propel themselves up the right wing media ladder by a rung or two, 2016 may see faded Establishment types doing the same thing.
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I don't know why everybody is so down on Scott Browns chances, he just needs to buy more trucks.
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Pong Daddy posted:I don't know why everybody is so down on Scott Browns chances, he just needs to buy more trucks. In the future, Detroit's industry will be solely financed by Scott Brown's carpetbaggery.
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If he runs again he will officially be the white Alan Keyes. Only slightly less crazy, of course.
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Bill Kristol believes it's 1968 once again and the Silent Majority is longing for a Nixon. So at least we know that's not the case.
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ufarn posted:Wasn't Nixon (D-MO) mentioned as a VP pick at one point? He was, then Ferguson happened. Joementum posted:Bill Kristol believes it's 1968 once again and the Silent Majority is longing for a Nixon. I actually thought of this last night while watching someone's shop burn to the ground on MSNBC. If Ferguson swells into a nationwide thing, look for the next Republican Presidential candidate to run on a "law and order" platform, just like Tricky Dick did.
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Alter Ego posted:He was, then Ferguson happened. Rand Paul has an awesome plan for defeating ISIS, but you'll have to elect him before he'll tell you what it is.
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Joementum posted:Bill Kristol believes it's 1968 once again and the Silent Majority is longing for a Nixon. I just read Nixonland (and wasn't old enough to watch the events described firsthand) last summer so watching all of this happen is simultaneously fascinating, horrifying, and disappointing.
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Alter Ego posted:If he runs again he will officially be the white Alan Keyes. I still remember my fundie high school physics teacher telling me that Keyes had real momentum. I think this was in the lead up to his race against Obama for Senate. He was a super nice guy and a great teacher, but for some reason he just really liked reading the Drudge report. His starry-eyed belief in Alan Keyes was just one of the most precious things, and something you don't usually see outside of Ron Paul's supporters and Jon Huntsman's supporter. With the stomping Keyes got there, and then Obama's ascendancy it's just gotten funnier and funnier to me over the years.
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ufarn posted:Jeez, that avatar-post combination is not unsettling in the slightest. I AM NOT A CROOK'S HEAD! 
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Chadderbox posted:I just read Nixonland (and wasn't old enough to watch the events described firsthand) last summer so watching all of this happen is simultaneously fascinating, horrifying, and disappointing. It's morbidly amusing (not being stuck in America might help here) that the Ferguson unrest has nothing on the 1960s but the conservative reaction to it is and will be just as hysteric as it was back then. Additionally you are going to be completely lacking any members of the political class even trying their hand at a rational approach into the matter. Reading Nixonland the greatest surprise was probably reading all these liberal politicians actually having sober opinions on the unrest and trying to pivot it into a discussion on racism and poverty.
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Antti posted:It's morbidly amusing (not being stuck in America might help here) that the Ferguson unrest has nothing on the 1960s but the conservative reaction to it is and will be just as hysteric as it was back then. It's fairly similar in intensity to 1940s race riots, however. Though the main difference there is that roving bands of white people started a fair number of those.
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computer parts posted:It's fairly similar in intensity to 1940s race riots, however. As opposed to now when the bands of white people causing riots are dispatched from police control?
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duz posted:As opposed to now when the bands of white people causing riots are dispatched from police control? Yes, because those were a factor in the 40s too.
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Joementum posted:George Pataki spent the day touring New Hampshire. He's a Yale and Columbia grad, for what it's worth. I was really disappointed this wasn't a story about George Takei.
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Cheekio posted:I was really disappointed this wasn't a story about George Takei. Brad Takei would be the best First Lady.
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computer parts posted:It's fairly similar in intensity to 1940s race riots, however. Ah, yeah, stuff like the Zoot Suit Riots is oft forgotten. I only learned about them reading The Good War and that was a few months ago!
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It appears that Elizabeth Warren recently visited Israel and met with Netanyahu. So I definitely would never vote for her in a Democratic primary if she were to run for president.
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Math Debater posted:It appears that Elizabeth Warren recently visited Israel and met with Netanyahu. So I definitely would never vote for her in a Democratic primary if she were to run for president. The following is the list of electable presidential candidates meeting Math Debator's minimal criteria:
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ComradeCosmobot posted:The following is the list of electable presidential candidates meeting Math Debator's minimal criteria: I love seeing far left purity tests just as much as far right purity tests. They're both so precious. 
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Yeah I'm disappointed she didn't drive a railroad spike through his head too, but c'est la vie.
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You don't kill people you don't know. That's a rule.
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