bartlebyshop posted:

I'm guessing he wants a Goldwater for Democrats, who loses the race he's most famous for but whose policy positions quickly become mainstream within the party and cause a sea change in the base.

CCKeane posted:

Sorry if this has been posted around, but Christie is going to announce.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/25/417458360/christie-to-announce-tuesday-that-hes-running-for-president

I am very, very eager for Christie and Trump to share a debate stage.

Indie Rocktopus posted:

- Trump is impervious to scandal, and he doesn't seem be hurt by gaffes. He's said repulsive things, even by Republican standards, and reporters have made it very clear his supposed fortune is mostly bullshit - but every single time he's gets called out, he refuses to back off, and instead doubles down on his position in the most pompous and insincere way possible. And then he gets away with it. Bush got smacked from the left and the conservative faithful for his moronic, indecisive statements on Iraq because there's no correct way to answer that question - the war was a fiasco and Bush is inextricably associated with it, but he's not allowed to ever admit the Republican party was ever wrong about anything. Trump can just brag about he would have dropped nukes on all of 'em plus North Korea, but you can't call him on that, allowing him to completely sidestep a contentious issue that's doing major damage to the other candidates. You can point out that Trump's fortune is mostly nonexistent, and he'll just start screaming about the hugest most luxurious hotels and casinos until people just accept his claims. You could find out he was running a dog-fighting ring, and he'd say he was forced to by market conditions and anyway he was only meeting the public's demand.

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This is the whole thing about fact-checking Donald Trump: He is un-fact-checkable. That's his gift and his angle. As he made clear today, he says whatever he wants for as long as he wants, because, why not? If I sat down with him and said that he was wrong on GDP or wrong on premiums, he would call me a hater and a loser and disparage my dog or something. Who knows? Who knows?!

Grey Fox posted:

To be fair, Harry probably feels threatened by Ted's ability to be an even bigger turd in the punchbowl than him.

Powered Descent posted:

I realize I'm getting WAY ahead of things here, but I'm curious which states all of you would consider to be "swing states" this time around.

I've been playing around with the electoral map on good ol' 270 To Win and I'm having trouble coming up with a plausible scenario where the blue team's starting line is any lower than about 240 electoral votes. More realistic scenarios tend to hand the victory to the Dems even before putting big states like Ohio and Florida in one column or the other.

This is about as generous as I can be about putting states in the Swing category:



Any differing opinions on states to include or leave out of the "swing" category?

Gravel Gravy posted:

My IQ is high,
Like really, super high score,
You're all just haters.

AceRimmer posted:

Let's do it!

code:

Vice President of the United States
Rick Perry

Department of State
Marco Rubio

Department of the Treasury
Bobby Jindal

Department of Defense
Rick Santorum

Department of Justice
Carly Fiorina

Department of the Interior
Scott Walker
 
Department of Agriculture
Mike Huckabee
 
Department of Commerce
John Kasich

Department of Labor
Rand Paul

Department of Health and Human Services
Chris Christie
 
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ben Carson
 
Department of Transportation
Ted Cruz

Full Battle Rattle posted:

He's killing it. His crowd might legitimately be bigger than anything Bernie's got, if he really is at 11,000.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

This is hopefully good news, but isn't it more of a USPol/MidEast Thread issue?

Iron Crowned posted:

I thought compromise means that I get everything I want, and you get nothing that you want

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Chafee



http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/55a663fde4b0c5f0322bd272?ir=Politics

gradenko_2000 posted:

I think switching over to the metric system would require ratification across states that wouldn't ever ever happen?

Shifty Pony posted:

because some dumbass is going to answer with some atrocity like bologna and cheese and we really don't want that fucker anywhere near State Dinners.

JT Jag posted:

Actually most if the thread has been making fun of the latest thing that a Republican candidate has said. Like at least 75% I'd guess.

Joementum posted:

Josh Lyman posted:

This guy on MSNBC said Rubio had hundreds of unbound delegates. What?

mannerup posted:

while this is going on

https://twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/status/756279863133278208

The Glumslinger posted:

"I will present the facts truthfully and clearly"

Politifacts rated this statements mostly false true

Zaphod42 posted:

This is awful, but Hillary is going to loving eviscerate this guy in a 1-on-1

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

trump will def have a heart attack in the next 8 years

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

what kind of weirdo knows enough about tim kaine to know what church he goes to

magiccarpet posted:

the alt right wished and wished and wished

and hillary got the sniffles

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

Hillary Monsanto-AlSaud

Sheng-ji Yang posted: