Full Battle Rattle posted:

This could be a good David Lynch type thing. The nomination is announced. He's got it locked. He stares up in horror. How many times is this? 10? 100? He can't remember. It just keeps happening. And when he begs, pleads, the audience not to give him the nomination again the audience politely chuckles as though they just heard a folksy anecdote. By the end of the six hour run time there's a totally placid Charlie Rose getting screamed at by a man who's stuck like a needle in the record of time.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

There needs to be a sitcom where mitt is forever trapped into running for president against his will.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

This could be a good David Lynch type thing. The nomination is announced. He's got it locked. He stares up in horror. How many times is this? 10? 100? He can't remember. It just keeps happening. And when he begs, pleads, the audience not to give him the nomination again the audience politely chuckles as though they just heard a folksy anecdote. By the end of the six hour run time there's a totally placid Charlie Rose getting screamed at by a man who's stuck like a needle in the record of time.

pangstrom posted:

Write up that up in 500-1000 words and McSweeney's will publish it.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

This could be a good David Lynch type thing. The nomination is announced. He's got it locked. He stares up in horror. How many times is this? 10? 100? He can't remember. It just keeps happening. And when he begs, pleads, the audience not to give him the nomination again the audience politely chuckles as though they just heard a folksy anecdote. By the end of the six hour run time there's a totally placid Charlie Rose getting screamed at by a man who's stuck like a needle in the record of time.

pangstrom posted:

Write up that up in 500-1000 words and McSweeney's will publish it.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

Oh dear god, I thought you said 5 - 10 THOUSAND. I have almost 3,000 words of a tale of unearthly horror and Mitt Romney.

Pook Good Mook posted:

Someone on FARK started signing fake letters from Mitt,

"Human emotions,
Mitt Romney."

Joementum posted:

McConnell called Rand Paul, "the most credible candidate for Us president since Henry Clay" at his Fancy Farm speech today. Now that is how you pander to a home state audience.

Joementum posted:

It's also fitting because Rand probably doesn't want to go back to full slavery, but he might be open to a compromise somewhere in the middle.

Joementum posted:

McConnell called Rand Paul, "the most credible candidate for Us president since Henry Clay" at his Fancy Farm speech today. Now that is how you pander to a home state audience.

CaptainCarrot posted:

ahahahaha

Clay lost all three times he was nominated. Also, I'm betting people know as much about Clay in Kentucky as they do about Jefferson in Virginia, if that, so very few people are going to have much idea who he's talking about anyway.

quote:

Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon turned conservative sensation, is taking a major step toward a 2016 presidential bid by forming a political action committee and selecting the man who would run his campaign, The Washington Times has learned.

Emerging from two-days of meetings with supporters in Palm Beach, Fla., Dr. Carson told the Times on Friday morning he has selected Houston businessman Terry Giles to be his 2016 campaign chairman should he run and approved the formation of a PAC called One Nation.

“Now is the time to start all of the appropriate exploration and investigation, and put down the structure that is necessary,” Dr. Carson said in a phone interview.

Asked about the likelihood he will run for president in 2016, Dr. Carson said: “I would say we are definitely a step or two closer than we were a year ago.”

He said the outcome of the 2014 elections in which Republicans are trying to seize control of the Senate would be a major factor, and that his new PAC would try to support candidates with similar viewpoints as his.

“Obviously we are very interested in what happens in November,” he said. “And if the people also continue to show strong desire for me to run, obviously that would be an important factor too.”

“In the meantime, we will focus our attention on helping those candidates who understand the change we need in our nation, and how to lead toward the healing our of nation,” he said.

Dr. Carson, a popular Washington Times columnist, huddled for two days with about two dozen prominent strategists, potential fund-raisers and supporters in Palm Beach to study all of the “ramifications of a run and make sure all of that is fully understood.”

Among those attending the private meetings were Mr. Giles, TV and radio personality Armstrong Williams, and political email and fund-raising strategist Mike Murray. During the strategy sessions, Dr. Carson asked Mr. Giles, a friend for over two deacdes, to serve as his campaign chairman if he runs.

“Basically if Dr. Carson decides to go forward, I’ve been asked to chair the campaign and make a full commitment during the period of time leading up to a decision and during the election cycle,” Mr. Giles told the Times.

ufarn posted:

Are we on track to the best GOP primary in American history?

Shear Modulus posted:

Is Herman Cain running again?

Shear Modulus posted:

Is Herman Cain running again?

ufarn posted:

Are we on track to the best GOP primary in American history?

Tatum Girlparts posted:

No, they got a new, even crazier, one who probably won't be undone by not being able to keep his dick in his pants so the focus would be 100% on how dumb and insane he is. This is Cain 2.0.

De Nomolos posted:

West says he's running for Senate if Rubio runs, btw.

Zwabu posted:

Is there, um... some kind of logic behind this?

Zwabu posted:

Is there, um... some kind of logic behind this?

DynamicSloth posted:

I assume he means if Rubio runs for President, although my very quick read of the Florida Division of Elections FAQ looks to me like there is nothing preventing Rubio from appearing on the ballot for both offices simultaneously (unlike the present Kentucky law).

DynamicSloth posted:

I assume he means if Rubio runs for President, although my very quick read of the Florida Division of Elections FAQ looks to me like there is nothing preventing Rubio from appearing on the ballot for both offices simultaneously (unlike the present Kentucky law).

dilbertschalter posted:

Rubio has said if he runs for President he won't simultaneously run for Senate, more as dig at Paul than anything else.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

ReindeerF posted:

Man what if West runs. How will GOP primary voters know which black dude to vote for so they can say that they voted for a black dude as a sort of racial cover? Carson West sounds like a drivetime DJ. So does Carson Cain.

DynamicSloth posted:

Then Rubio is an idiot, a Senate seat is a stupid thing to throw away over a process dig that no who isn't a wonk will care about.

Tatum Girlparts posted:

No, they got a new, even crazier, one who probably won't be undone by not being able to keep his dick in his pants so the focus would be 100% on how dumb and insane he is. This is Cain 2.0.

comes along bort posted:

vote for a black dude. Good one.