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Joementum posted:By the way, the event in that Ted Cruz photo was hosted by Jack Kimball. Who is Jack Kimball? Well, he's a former NH state GOP chair and he's got some stuff he'd like to share with you. Well of course you invade New Hampshire first. That way you bring the nation to it's knees by controlling all the...um...stuff(?) that New Hampshire produces for the rest of the country!
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Gyges posted:Well of course you invade New Hampshire first. That way you bring the nation to it's knees by controlling all the...um...stuff(?) that New Hampshire produces for the rest of the country! You have to go after all the true freedom fighters so they can't put up a scrappy, Red Dawn-esque resistance
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uncurable mlady posted:You have to go after all the true freedom fighters so they can't put up a scrappy, Red Dawn-esque resistance
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Please ... PLEASE  http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/25/gov-snyder-dc-talk-military-issues/70438024/
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Please ... PLEASE What is this, the year of the bland midwestern GOP governors? You've got Walker, possibly Kasich, and now maybe even Snyder? Just have Branstad run, and you'd have them all (except for Rauner, I guess).
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Speaking of, how would Branstad pulling a Harkin and winning Iowa with no chance at anything else gently caress up the GOP primary? Who would it impact the most? Obviously Huck if he runs.
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Gygaxian posted:What is this, the year of the bland midwestern GOP governors? You've got Walker, possibly Kasich, and now maybe even Snyder? Just have Branstad run, and you'd have them all (except for Rauner, I guess).
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Gygaxian posted:What is this, the year of the bland midwestern GOP governors? You've got Walker, possibly Kasich, and now maybe even Snyder? Just have Branstad run, and you'd have them all (except for Rauner, I guess). and Pence! Aliquid posted:Speaking of, how would Branstad pulling a Harkin and winning Iowa with no chance at anything else gently caress up the GOP primary? Who would it impact the most? Obviously Huck if he runs. Any of the socons whose plan to win is 1. Win Iowa 2. Skip New Hampshire 3. Win South Carolina 4. ??? 5. Nomination! So Cruz, Santorum, Carson, Perry, Paul to some extent.
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Oh of course Perry, how could I forget. He's actually running a respectable retail campaign there, and in 2012 even won some of the more rural counties.
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Pinterest Mom posted:So Cruz, Santorum, Carson, Perry, Paul to some extent. Paul's actually polling third in NH according to the latest poll. Cruz is in fifth, but that's still a joke because #4 is Donald Trump. Perry's currently polling even with Bobby Jindal.
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Sir Tonk posted:What is it with *young* Republicans and constantly talking about obsessively working out while also being a 160 pound stick figure dork?
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^^^^^^^ Fun fact! The dude who produced this 2014 campaign ad is the same who produced the Pete Hoekstra Debbiespenditnow superbowl ad in 2012 and included this amazing gem of a gif.  The only thing missing now is the weird, out of place easy listening jazz saxophone music. Gygaxian posted:What is this, the year of the bland midwestern GOP governors? You've got Walker, possibly Kasich, and now maybe even Snyder? Just have Branstad run, and you'd have them all (except for Rauner, I guess). Oh no, even Branstad looks compromised. When revealed he owns a Blackberry, Branstad insisted he doesn't even have an email address, he's never sent or received an email ever. http://www.kcci.com/news/branstad-answers-questions-about-his-blackberry-email-use/32033370 HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Mar 28, 2015 |
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This is from the article on not rich enough fundraisers Meg posted earlier, and I think this paragraph needs to stand alone:quote:But there is a palpable angst among mid-level fundraisers and donors that their rank has been permanently downgraded. One longtime bundler recently fielded a call from a dispirited executive on his yacht, who complained, “We just don’t count anymore.”
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I think I get high off of presidential elections because the alternative, crushing depression, is just too much like every day politics.
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Shageletic posted:This is from the article on not rich enough fundraisers Meg posted earlier, and I think this paragraph needs to stand alone: Lifestyles of the Rich But Not Quite Rich Enough
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The struggles of the 2-5%
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Sir Tonk posted:Lifestyles of the Rich But Not Quite Rich Enough It really is pretty drat scary when the politicians are not even listening to these guys though. edit: most of these not wealthy enough guys are the people who run for mayor or city council in our communities. at least when their money mattered, so do the local issues they cared about. radical meme fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Mar 28, 2015 |
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The X-man cometh posted:The struggles of the 2-5% The 2% don't have a yacht. This is strictly a 0.1% vs 0.01% problem.
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Pinterest Mom posted:The 2% don't have a yacht. This is strictly a 0.1% vs 0.01% problem. http://www.theonion.com/articles/widening-gap-between-rich-and-superrich-threatenin,1688/ From 1996 if you'd believe that. http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-are-americas-rich-falling-behind-the-s,14165/ Loel fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 28, 2015 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:^^^^^^^ Fun fact! The dude who produced this 2014 campaign ad is the same who produced the Pete Hoekstra Debbiespenditnow superbowl ad in 2012 and included this amazing gem of a gif. I saw that guy give a talk on political marketing. He was awful.
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Pinterest Mom posted:The 2% don't have a yacht. This is strictly a 0.1% vs 0.01% problem. Was gonna post exactly this. I can assure you that I can't afford a yacht, just a smallish cabin cruiser.
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oldswitcheroo posted:I saw that guy give a talk on political marketing. He was awful. I can't stand listening to him talk. He has less than zero public speaking skills. He needs hours of coaching to do short advertising spots, and listening to him for any length of time is painful. quote:https://youtu.be/Hoa2mXmgi2I
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Pinterest Mom posted:The 2% don't have a yacht. This is strictly a 0.1% vs 0.01% problem. Yeah top 5% income is like 100k? Something like that. Still pretty well off compared to most americans, but not nearly in the level of influential political bundler.
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Rubio is going to officially announce on April 13, a week after Rand's announcement. Also, I updated the OP.
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Joementum posted:Also, I updated the OP. It is a good OP. I particularly like how CNN didn't take Lindsey Graham seriously enough to include him in their 11-minute video parody about the number of implausible candidates.
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Joementum posted:Rubio is going to officially announce on April 13, a week after Rand's announcement. So is he also keeping his word and declaring his decision not to run for re-election as Florida's jr Senator on April 13?
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Kellsterik posted:I believe that is what they tell you. I'm an eagle scout, and knew several others. It doesn't prepare you for poo poo.
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Scott Walker's qualifications to be president: - Eagle Scout - Really loving hates unions
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DaveWoo posted:- Really loving hates unions Worked for Reagan.
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DaveWoo posted:Scott Walker's qualifications to be president: - Faced union protestors who are just like ISIS.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:I can't stand listening to him talk. He has less than zero public speaking skills. He needs hours of coaching to do short advertising spots, and listening to him for any length of time is painful. As someone who does a good bit of door knocking come election time, I really wanted to punch him when he talked about how his ad spots had won elections.
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OctoberBlues posted:Ted Cruz seems to have a very wide head from front to back... I remember when Romney ran, a lot of us comic geeks here compared him to The Smiler from the Transmetropilitan comics. I take it back; Cruz is The Smiler. At any moment, Cruz looks like he's going to become Large Marge while shrieking at Paul Reubens in a truck.
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Gygaxian posted:What is this, the year of the bland midwestern GOP governors? You've got Walker, possibly Kasich, and now maybe even Snyder? Just have Branstad run, and you'd have them all (except for Rauner, I guess). Bland midwestern GOP Governors with presidential aspirations? I know he's been out of office for the better part of a decade, but I think you're forgetting best in class. Tim Pawlenty. And in all seriousness, he kind of terrifies me a little as a GOP option. Thoroughly vetted and at one point the establishment choice for VP (08), who has gone a good decade without saying anything terribly embarrassing in public on political issues or during his own campaign (I think? I don't know. I can only sit through about three minutes of his appearances before I doze off) and seems to be the only one with the potential to unite the populist, religious and financial wings of the GOP. Populist-Son of a Widower (The Good Kind Of Single Parent) grew up lower-middle class, first in his family to college, and then to law (both at his public state university! Not one of these Ivy League Schools like those elitists Cruz and Obama and Hillary or even spendy private universities like Rand or Walker). He's like Obama to the white lower/middle/upper-but-not1% class! He's also in favor of a minimum wage hike-which he someone managed to espouse without being fired from his job (below). Also manages to discuss populism without coming off as incredibly racist. Which the GOP has struggled with. Bleugh People indeed. Religious- No big deal. Converted from Catholicism to being an evangelical with the help of his personal pastor.... who happens to be the head of one of the nation's largest evangelical church organizations. I'm sure every GOP candidate has similar ties to a group. A group that totally didn't feel slighted by a ticket last year that was comprised of a Mormon and an Objectivist. Financial-Executive Experience, Corporate? Yup. Executive Experience, Political? Yup. Serving as CEO of a lobbying group whose rotating board has included essentially every C-level staffer from the Insurance, Credit and Financial Services industry during his tenure? Yup. Didn't get fired or rebuked for advocating a minimum wage increase? Indeed (Giving rise to my theory that the $ of the GOP would gladly trade Tax Cuts/CapGains reform for minimum wage, and the Dems wouldn't blink before signing it). He's thoroughly lacking in charisma, which was what was blamed for his quick exit in 2012 (rather than inexperience, a lack of organization and a complete lack of funding)... but the deep pockets of his recent business partners could fund a cannily managed campaign in which his dullness is a part of the virtuous package as he runs himself as the "Sam's Club Republican against the Country Club Republicans". If Jeb hiccups or Walker implodes before things get going too heavily, he's about the most appealing establishment draftee who could still win over the Tea Party. What people thought Perry was in 2012, just without the opiates and baggage. And I'm now officially a leftie getting my Arzy on about the General while Arkaneing for this cycle's Huntsman. Woo.
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