OneThousandMonkeys posted:

If the litmus test of a GOP candidate is that he is charismatic but still abominable on the issues, I mean what are we doing? Handing out points for second-best?

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Can someone explain this seemingly bizarre reference to me?

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Maybe she sensed our weariness; whether by plan or coincidence, Susan chose the perfect opportunity to attempt an escape. She suddenly leapt up and ran for the door, despite the many hands holding her down. This burst of action served to revive the tired group of students and they soon had her restrained once again, this time half kneeling and half standing. Alice, a student leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, entered the room for the first time, brandishing a crucifix. Running out of options, UCF had turned to a rival campus Christian group for spiritual tactics. The preacher had denied our request for assistance and recommended that we not confront the demon; his suggestion was a little late. I still wonder if the good preacher was too settled to be roused from bed, or if this supposed expert doubted his own ability to confront whatever harassed Susan.

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

Bush is "competent," "statesmanlike," "outside the echo chamber," and "never used coded language to divide Americans?" This is about more than how he merely appears, and is also rubbish.

Alter Ego posted:

Now I know why we haven't seen much of Arkane.

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

amounting to "Bush ruined the party by hiring neocons and pandering to fundamentalists"

ufarn posted:

He can probably put the time and money into the exercise and nutrition regimen, if he decides to run. He'd probably write a book about it to help with approvals.

Not exactly The Audacity of Hope nor Dreams of My Father, but it's not a bad thing to have behind you.

Joementum posted:

Nonsense posted:

Chris Christie is an idiot and he will not win the nomination sorry nobody is going to praise your conservative genius.

notthegoatseguy posted:

Kennedy and FDR prove pretty much nothing since their illnesses, or at least the extent of their illnesses, weren't publicized. FDR has very few known photographs of him in a wheelchair and the Secret Service was pretty aggressive in that regard.

SilentD posted:

Kennedy wasn't a very good president and wouldn't be remembered so fondly had people not seen him get his head blown off.

Joementum posted:

Hillary is going to testify to Congress on the 20th about the Benghazi attack.

So look for that to be a complete poo poo show.

Naet posted:

Schweitzer is a really charismatic guy, though. His low name recognition in 2012 doesn't mean that much. If he enters the ring, he'll be noticed.

jeffersonlives posted:

I think it's much more likely that it's internal NJ politics than national chess stuff. Could be his Newark opponents (several of whom were quoted on the record), could be one of the other machines that doesn't like him, could be a union move, could be Lautenberg, could be Christie, could be another state Democratic contender for those primaries, etc.

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Booker says he will consult with Democrat Frank Lautenberg, the 88-year-old senator whose term is up in 2014 and is the oldest serving senator.

"It would be a privilege, an honor, to continue his legacy of service," Booker said.

Lautenberg spokesman Caley Gray said in a statement that the senator was focused on disaster relief and gun control and did not have time to talk about "political distractions."

Joementum posted:

Oh for gently caress sake.


Any of the dozen people in this story could have done something about this, but nope. We get a Cory Booker Heroically Rescues Freezing Dog story instead.

cheese posted:

Ask Mitt 'Mittens' Romney how well the "double down on Benghazi as a scandal" attack angle worked. It didn't work then, and it won't work in 3 years. Hillary should be so lucky that the Republicans count on her involvement in the Benghazi "scandal" as their silver bullet to kill her campaign.

FMguru posted:

The answer:
Long publishing lead times had Bush writing his book last fall, before the election. Between the writing and the publication the GOP shifted hard on immigration, and now instead of being a liberalizer on immigration, Jeb looks like a hard-liner. And now he has to go out on a book tour for this suddenly-toxic policy.

Oops.

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But I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good--a positive good.

watt par posted:

Did he hike his pants up to his nipples because he lost a bet with someone?

DynamicSloth posted:

The Reince Priebus dream team supposedly put their heads together to come up with a solution to this whole losing the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 elections thing, this and paying Karl Rove's lost couch change to people to go to minorities and tell them how swell the GOP is is literally all he came up with.

Joementum posted:

1972.

glowing-fish posted:

1964

The Entire Universe posted:

I'm not saying she's lazy, I'm saying she doesn't have the kind of relation to electoral politics that's a de facto requirement these days. It's not like she sits around doing nothing, she just hasn't ever taken an elected office.

The Warszawa posted:

Speaking of "are there racists in positions of power and influence" ...

rscott posted:

I was just telling a friend of mine that Christie was unelectable because he was fat and all the other republicans hate him, then she told me he was having a press conference for his lap band surgery and I pretty much went, "welp". Hope the rest of the republicans hate him enough because someone like him in the White House kind of scares me.

Alter Ego posted:

Christie never survives a Republican primary, even without weight issues. He has a hair-trigger temper and that Jersey Shore BS doesn't fly anywhere but New Jersey.

He will inevitably flip out on one of his Tea Party opponents in a debate when they bring up the fact that he acted like a human being during the cleanup for Hurricane Sandy.