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Hollismason posted:Clinton's going to testify pretty soon right? So that's going to be a pretty poo poo show. Thursday. I hope she goes off.
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Kro-Bar posted:I don't think anyone cares, but Jim Webb is thinking about making an independent run. Did they get a quote from his greatest political enemy?
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Oct 19, 2015 22:36
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zoux posted:He said Muslims were bad. Also, he's black and a brain surgeon so "see we like smart black people, we're totally not racist!" is probably the id of the people that support him despite the fact that nearly everything that comes out of his mouth is lunacy.
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zoux posted:Thursday. I hope she goes off. She'll be cagey, but looking to attack weak arguments and make her case that the whole thing is a political show. She's probably spent a lot of time since the debate preparing for this, so she should be very ready.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:37
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Trump hasn't really opened fire on Carson quite yet, and I imagine once he starts, Trump will start running away with the lead. Trump is like the archetypical bully, just making GBS threads on everyone and feeding off their attempts to cordially swat back. Carson says terrible poo poo but is really soft spoken and not great at speaking to crowds. Trump is probably going to go after him for being weak/low energy and talk poo poo about brain surgery.
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Lote posted:Did they get a quote from his greatest political enemy? I hear the AP left a voicemail but he wasn't around to talk to.
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Kro-Bar posted:I don't think anyone cares, but Jim Webb is thinking about making an independent run. I wonder if he could gently caress up Virginia for the Dems. It would be truly pathetic if he couldn't.
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WELCOME TO GRIDLOCK COUNTRY YOU LIVE HERE NOW AND YOU LOVE IT GET A BEER FROM THE FRIDGE AND STAY A WHILE http://thehill.com/policy/defense/257360-boehner-to-sign-defense-bill-sparking-showdown-with-obama quote:House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced on Monday that he will sign the 2016 defense policy bill on Tuesday, setting into motion the 10 days the president will have to veto the legislation, which he says he will do.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:42
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If Trump actually won the nomination, I think the only real unknown for the election would be whether it is an epic disaster for the GOP down the ballot, or if the voters will compartmentalize the clown show at the top as a separate thing. I think it would really freak people out and drive turnout for the Dems.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:43
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Webb barely beat George Allen after he called a young man a monkey on camera. I don't think he has much of a base here, but Obama only won VA in 2012 by 100,000 votes so anything is possible.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:43
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FAUXTON posted:Trump hasn't really opened fire on Carson quite yet, and I imagine once he starts, Trump will start running away with the lead. Trump is like the archetypical bully, just making GBS threads on everyone and feeding off their attempts to cordially swat back. Carson says terrible poo poo but is really soft spoken and not great at speaking to crowds. Trump is probably going to go after him for being weak/low energy and talk poo poo about brain surgery. Trump tried, but Carson's support is pretty deep among evangelical wingnuts and has more credibility than Trump about those issues and with the "i'm a doctor" issue. Trump tried calling him a bad doctor and it didn't go over well.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:47
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PostNouveau posted:I wonder if he could gently caress up Virginia for the Dems. It would be truly pathetic if he couldn't. It's not clear to me he would draw more support from Dems than Republicans. Either way though it would be a big deal because he'd be running in the center of both candidates so he'd be drawing votes in the states most likely to decide the election, not the least.
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Maarek posted:Webb barely beat George Allen after he called a young man a monkey on camera. I don't think he has much of a base here, but Obama only won VA in 2012 by 100,000 votes so anything is possible. Does he even have high name recognition here? He last heavily campaigned in VA in 2006, was kinda low-profile as a Senator, and hasn't done gently caress-all since then. I don't really think he has a real huge following.
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What if Webb actually ends up splitting the GOP vote instead. The guy is probably a better candidate than Jeb loving Bush.
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evilweasel posted:Trump tried, but Carson's support is pretty deep among evangelical wingnuts and has more credibility than Trump about those issues and with the "i'm a doctor" issue. Trump tried calling him a bad doctor and it didn't go over well. Low Energy worked well against Bush and Carson is practically comatose in comparison. On the other hand, the evangelicals backing him could just see that as another mark of godliness. Carson's an Adventist, so his credibility on all things 4Jesus is fairly unimpeachable, so I'm hoping it comes down to whether the GOP is led around by theocratic assholes or secular assholes because you know that's going to be a messy breakup.
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Jackson Taus posted:Does he even have high name recognition here? He last heavily campaigned in VA in 2006, was kinda low-profile as a Senator, and hasn't done gently caress-all since then. I don't really think he has a real huge following. He doesn't. He's also pissed off a lot of active Democrats in the state who worked hard to get him into office when he decided he was bored of the Senate after one term, so I wouldn't be worried about him being a factor in VA.
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Oct 19, 2015 23:03
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FAUXTON posted:Low Energy worked well against Bush and Carson is practically comatose in comparison. On the other hand, the evangelicals backing him could just see that as another mark of godliness. Carson's an Adventist, so his credibility on all things 4Jesus is fairly unimpeachable, so I'm hoping it comes down to whether the GOP is led around by theocratic assholes or secular assholes because you know that's going to be a messy breakup. Low energy worked because nobody really likes Jeb! rather than because it was such a compelling attack. It was basically something Trump picked out of a hat to bully him with and his cowering and wetting his pants at the insults did the rest.
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Oct 19, 2015 23:04
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FAUXTON posted:Low Energy worked well against Bush and Carson is practically comatose in comparison. I dunno; even a racist blowhard like Trump probably realizes that calling a prominent black GOP figure lazy is something better implied than shouted outright.
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seiferguy posted:Also, he's black and a brain surgeon so "see we like smart black people, we're totally not racist!" is probably the id of the people that support him despite the fact that nearly everything that comes out of his mouth is lunacy. pretty much. He has credential in a higly qualified field as a great brain surgeon (which makes him appear intelligent in all things to the base and gives his uncle tom phrases credence) and he says poo poo that huckleberry says but in a gentler way.
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blue squares posted:People seriously hate this kid. It's insane. It's a combination of racists, bitter nerds that feel that he's a shittier nerd and how dare he get any sort of publicity for his weak rear end clock when their high school hobbies didn't get them anything, and both.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I dunno; even a racist blowhard like Trump probably realizes that calling a prominent black GOP figure lazy is something better implied than shouted outright. This is Trump we're talking about.
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No way Carson has the chops to survive long enough in the spotlight to get the nom, just look at whatever the hell happened to Fiorina Still, Carson scares me way more than Trump does because he'd be the biggest industry puppet since Reagen, only he'd be an evangelical one at that. Dude is already so far out of the his depth that he can't see the shore anymore and the real stuff hasn't even started. I hope Trump goes full Jeb! on him and doesn't let him spin away from the stupid poo poo he's said Save us, Trump-san  edit - and yeah I have zero doubt that Trump wouldn't take a hit if he did some blatant race attacks on Carson. Trump isn't relying on the evangelical vote and won't get it from Carson no matter what, so he'd just be solidifying his hold on the crazies and possibly bringing even more in Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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seiferguy posted:Dori Monson has been a skid mark on Seattle Radio for as long as I can remember, but I've never heard of him doing something as awful as this. I hate this guy so much. He is alive and Mike Webb is dead. We live in the worst alternate universe.
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Oct 19, 2015 23:12
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nachos posted:What if Webb actually ends up splitting the GOP vote instead. The guy is probably a better candidate than Jeb loving Bush. Not a chance. Webb is pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-Obamacare, pro-labor, anti-Iraq war, a staunch advocate for reforming the criminal justice system, and believes global warming is a thing and that the EPA should do something about it.. The voters he's trying to court (socially liberal but like guns and the military) don't exist. The fact that he has actual legislative experience would put the nail in his coffin for GOP voters.
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Epic High Five posted:Save us, Trump-san
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He's an idiot if he runs third party. What does he even expect to do other than gently caress over the country with a Trump presidency?
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Epic High Five posted:No way Carson has the chops to survive long enough in the spotlight to get the nom, just look at whatever the hell happened to Fiorina Reagan knew how to appeal to people outside his bubble. Carson only appeals to the wingnut crowd.
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Oct 19, 2015 23:14
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Kro-Bar posted:I don't think anyone cares, but Jim Webb is thinking about making an independent run. quote:Webb is a true maverick, and has held ideas at odds with his party’s on everything from climate change to affirmative action to women’s rights, to LGBT rights, to guns, to abortion, to fossil fuel and more.
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I think Webb could be a real asset in another person's administration, so I think running independent and biting your thumb at the DNC (as much as they deserve it) is a dumb move That said, I think he'd steal more Republican votes than Democratic ones, though he wouldn't steal much of either I wonder if the Dems are going to be smart and hammer away at the fact that coal jobs went up under Obama (because it now takes more manpower to extract less coal because we're running out), or if they'll be dumb and say something like, "we're running out of coal you need to move on"
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Radish posted:He's an idiot if he runs third party. What does he even expect to do other than gently caress over the country with a Trump presidency? lol, no one I've spoken to here even knows who the hell he is, and that's after seeing him whine and complain in the debate. Webb wouldn't get more than 5,000 votes in a general election.
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Oct 19, 2015 23:20
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SumYungGui posted:Is it possible to laugh, cry and drink liquor all at the same time? If there's one thing this thread has proven time and again, it's yes.
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Radish posted:It's a combination of racists, bitter nerds that feel that he's a shittier nerd and how dare he get any sort of publicity for his weak rear end clock when their high school hobbies didn't get them anything, and both. It is a lovely clock that really any middle schooler could make, but if you make a lovely clock and then get arrested and treated like a criminal for going to school while Muslim, I say you get a free pass and we can pretend it was cool. I'm completely OK with that.
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FAUXTON posted:This is Trump we're talking about. His ability to make the narrative of the primaries be whatever he wishes it to be is unreal. He will find a way to make it work.
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Gravel Gravy posted:He's a Republican. His actual voting record would suggest otherwise quote:Supports Roe v. Wade and abortion rights. (Jun 2006)
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Oct 19, 2015 23:36
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So is the article a crock of poo poo or did he reverse his previous stances on the aforementioned issues?
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I don't want Jim Webb to kill me with a grenade.
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SumYungGui posted:Is it possible to laugh, cry and drink liquor all at the same time? Sure it is. I live in Michigan, I do it all the time.
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SumYungGui posted:Is it possible to laugh, cry and drink liquor all at the same time? Ask John Boehner
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Jim Webb 2016: I'll murder you if you don't vote for me
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