Cheekio posted:

Cory Brooker confirms via Reddit he's not running for President, well, at least I guess he confirms he's running for a Senate Seat first. With numerous spelling and grammar mistakes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ahk5u/i_am_cory_booker_mayor_of_newark_new_jersey_and/c8xgp1v


Nothing like drunkenly redditing to improve your chances at high office.

Joementum posted:

If the Democrats want to ensure the vote of Jewish millionaire farmers from Vermont, I have a Vice Presidential candidate suggestion for them.

comes along bort posted:

Gob Bluth Gavin Newsom is too slick to not be thinking of something after taking over for Jerry Brown.

mcmagic posted:

I'm going to say (having pulled this directly out of my rear end) that there is about a 40% chance he's gay. Though if that rumor is going to hurt his primary candidacy more than his awful economic policies will I'm all for it being spread.

SedanChair posted:

This is well in character for you, but what response are you hoping to elicit? "Get crushed by a city bus, you gently caress?"

Look at you, you are stuffing racial equality into the toilet for the sake of your precious establishment. You're literally a person who brings Rush Limbaugh's critiques of liberals into reality. You are worse than a god-damned Dixiecrat, at least they had the guts to spell out their contempt for black people.

Joementum posted:

Adar is right to mention Christie, but Scott Walker is perhaps even more dangerous, and yes, he's running. And I believe America is just silly enough to gives the Bush family a third shot.

Alter Ego posted:

Yep. The right did it with Goldwater in '64--they can do it again. Give the loonies their day in the sun, and then when they get absolutely curbstomped, get back to business.

radical meme posted:

It's not exactly news that Rick Santorum intends to make another run at the nomination but he's now adopting a more populist tone, even though it comes off as pretty insincere. The past few weeks he's said the GOP has to stop being the party of the 1% and the GOP needs to pay more attention to the American worker, not just the job creators, which sounds all well and good. But apparently last Thursday he said:


So we are just one big, happy, class free society here in the U.S. of A. I think I'm gonna stroll on over to the Koch mansion with a six pack and see if they want to watch the baseball game on their big screen.

Foo posted:

Dumb question about the thread title but it's been bothering me for a while: I know who Sen. Agua Bottle is but who is Sen. Aqua Buddha?

DynamicSloth posted:

A sitting VP has only been elected to the Presidency twice in American history (barring cases where they first ascended through the President's death) once in 1796 and once in 1988.

notthegoatseguy posted:

Hell, even when a Bush does carry New Hampshire, it isn't by much. HW Bush was the incumbent President in 1992 and he only got 53% of the vote in the primary against Pat loving Robertson.

Hedera Helix posted:

I would say that seeing him run in the 2016 primaries, then losing, would be quite the treat, but that would also mean that the people of Wisconsin would continue to be stuck with him. There isn't a good outcome for this, is there?

ReindeerF posted:

Let us also not forget his brilliant stewardship of the Gore 2000 campaign.

Kenlon posted:

What? How the hell does that make any goddamn sense?

quote:

As you know, Barack Obama has very little in common with the average black American. He is not a descendant of slaves, like Dr. Carson. He was never part of the civil rights movement, he was educated in exclusive private schools, and he grew up in an economically comfortable family in Hawaii, not in one of the poorest areas of Detroit, like Ben Carson.

Alter Ego posted:

I firmly believe Biden won't run. He's going to be 74 by the time 2016 rolls around. Even Reagan wasn't that old when he ran the first time in 1980.

Karl Sharks posted:

Ahahaha, a citizen grand jury?

Lost For Words posted:

Dr.Zeppelin posted:

On the other hand, it seems like rich people writing hundreds of identically-sized checks that are very obviously going to the same place seems like it would generate a lot more public backlash than writing one single large check to an innocent-sounding sham social welfare organization.

Skwirl posted:

I really hope it's Denver, just to see all the old fat white men trying to cope with the altitude.

Edit: Why does it have to be a Red or Swing state? The 2004 Republican convention took place in New York City and the 2012 Democratic convention was in Charlotte, North Carolina.

De Nomolos posted:

And their only prior statewide officeholder not going to jail left the party.

StarMagician posted:

http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

ComradeCosmobot posted:

They also secured effective control of the Texas government until 2018.

Chantilly Say posted:

Nixon was more charismatic--you could even honestly say significantly more--than Cruz is, and I say that on this basis: Imagine President Cruz's foreign policy.

sullat posted:

Isn't he the guy that wrote a novel about "totally not Clinton, honest" being a pedophile? Don't imagine he has many friends amongst the Clinton machine these days.

FAUXTON posted:

I don't know, let's see how she handled it in 2008, under similar circ-

Oh.

Hm.

Brian Schweitzer posted:

“I don’t know why you lost the election, Mitt, but I know this: I was watching you on TV and I didn’t see the Mitt Romney that I knew,” Schweitzer said. “You are a fun guy and you’re easy-going and Obama is not. I’ve been in the room with him a little, too. He’s stiff as a board and you’ve got it going on.”

Joementum posted:

Romney's VP vetting team, not the secret service, but yes.

Rob Portman = Filet-o-Fish
Tim Pawlenty = Lakefish
Marco Rubio = Pescado (which is just Spanish for "fish")
Paul Ryan = Fishconsin
Chris Christie = Pufferfish

PsychoInternetHawk posted:

Well it's not BURN ALL DOWN SMASH THE CAPITALIST OPPRESSORS so I guess she's pretty much Ayn Rand

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

I mean, don't get me wrong, the idea of another Bush being president is genuinely horrific and if it happens we should all start gargling with Dran-O, but it's not The End Of Democracy.

New Division posted:

I will not vote for Hillary under any circumstances. I simply refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils anymore.

SedanChair posted:

So we're electing Clinton entirely to avoid the pro-theocratic judges I take it? I can accept that.

My Imaginary GF posted:

Thing is, Nixon didn't have a papal network on his team to assist.

Joementum posted:

Let's quickly check in with the Bill Kristol.



Well, his streak of being wrong about everything doesn't appear like it will be broken any time soon.

Pharmaskittle posted:

I saw my first Carson '16 bumper sticker last week in Mississippi.