Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

The republican side will be a free for all and very entertaining.

Also, depressing.

Are You a Scott Walker Conservative? Why Wisconsin’s governor may be Chris Christie’s toughest competition in 2016.
Add his name to the hat I guess.

lot of smartish conservatives been pegging him as a dark horse for a while. anyone ever heard him speak?

wonder what a president biden would actually be like.

BFD, obvs. Also, ice cream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kVBGeQeR4

(I know he cultivates that image to a degree. Crossed my mind, though.)

haha, that's perfect!

I heard him speaking about his 240m worth of self reliance medicaid plan on npr and the dude was as charismatic as an envelope

ie scott walker

Walker is against abortion in all cases. Buh bye.

Bernie does some talkin'

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/27/bernie_sanders_why_i_might_run_in_2016/

More Gillibrand in the NYT today

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/07/us/politics/new-yorks-junior-senator-doggedly-refusing-to-play-the-part.html

She's a strong VP candidate at worst

"worst" certainly applies to this robot

Man, it hasn't more than a 15-20% chance of happening if that, but great doomsday entertainment would be watching this guy and HRC eat each other alive in the general election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/us/politics/rand-pauls-mixed-inheritance.html

And I think there really would be acts of murder and cannibalism between their supporters.

It's still HILLARY!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-2016-hillary-clinton-has-commanding-lead-over-democrats-gop-race-wide-open/

rising w/ core Republicans

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/far_right_learning_to_love_christie/

i'm kinda excited to vote for hillary

christie's gonna crush the gop field. he's a formidable hrc opponent, too.

that's p much like getting excited about the last Elders of Krypton election

more like getting excited about the most recent elders of zion election

how can you be excited to vote for Hillary?

http://media.tumblr.com/042655ca89c6fb997aebd8e4add3f557/tumblr_inline_mmtk6fBpMd1qz4rgp.jpg

Mordy in regal white coif presents Palin, Christie and Jeb Bush to The Clinton Foundation

obv it will be HISTORY to have a female sockpuppet presiding over endtimes

Dennis Perrin and his jokes.

http://i43.tinypic.com/16hosok.gif

if you meet me in DC i think i can get hold of Dennis, alfred

how can you be excited to vote for Hillary?

I like her personally, I'm excited to vote for a woman for POTUS, I think she'll hew closely to my beliefs about foreign affairs, she's kinda an ass-kicker which I appreciate, etc.

why do you think she is an "ass kicker"?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/1/23/1358956313048/Hillary-Clinton-testifies-011.jpg

idk, she's just a badass. i like her. i'll enjoy voting for her.

seriously dreading this election

Any other candidates with airports named after them? Didn't think so.

every POTUS henceforth will hew closely to yr beliefs about foreign affairs, I read it in Revelations

not least because even though i'm usually a 'hold my nose and vote for the democrat' guy i don't know that i can bring myself to vote for anyone who voted for the iraq war

so you say but obama has been a bit of a disappointment in that area xp

i'm voting whoever cranks up Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. I'm guessing Line N.

also ya know i like voting for a winner

I am not excited about this election.

I'm bored by this thread.

http://youcouldfeelthesky.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/farside-wendell-im-not-content.jpg

it will be interesting to see what kind of policy angles she'll emphasize en route to election, she's got no particular causes or goals that are near and dear to her (afaict). given her history there's little to indicate that she'd go for soak-the-rich populism or addressing climate change, and healthcare's now pretty much off the table, so what does that leave for a legislative agenda? more MOR proto-rightwing shit, I imagine.

http://jennifermeaton.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/yay__its_my_turn.png

finally, an Iron Lady of our own

Sully vs his readers.

generally loathe Sully, but he's right on this point

We've had dozens of mediocrities or just passably competent presidents and only a very few great ones. Presidents rarely leave office as popular as when they entered it. I don't see any reason why HRC would not fit comfortably into this long tradition. I'm willing to bet she'd outshine Gerald Ford, Warren Harding and Franklin Pierce.

i doubt it

we had a couple worse presidents than Warren Harding, like the one who succeeded him.

remember the common 2008 theory that the dangerous flipside to the overwhelming youth support of Obama was that when, inevitably, he ended up disappointing people it might alienate young people from politics?

did anyone ever follow up on that with research on voter enthusiasm (with a focus on young voters with high enthusiasm for obama back then vs. their political involvement now, for example)?

all i have is anecdotal evidence because in the runup to the 2008 election i was in a public policy program with lots of politics nerds, and then immediately moved to DC. i don't really have a good feel for how the average young voter in 2008 feels now.

harding granted amnesty to radicals who had been persecuted during the red scare, signed the first child care legislation ever passed by congress, and tried to pass an anti-lynching bill. he's way overdue for reassessment.

except Aimless, none of those guys moved us closer to extinction through inaction. She would.

(so will anyone else who can be elected)

Official Statement from Neil Young:

"Donald Trump was not authorized to use "Rockin' In The Free World" in his presidential candidacy announcement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America."

Lol

We have a thread for that btw

I say we keep this thread going until all the Republicans have finished announcing.

Vice President Joe Biden has still not ruled out a 2016 presidential run and will make his intentions known by Aug. 1, according to two Democratic sources who have been in contact with his family. While the loss of his son, Beau Biden, last month paused any political planning by the vice president, the sources tell U.S. News that family members have indicated a White House run is still a possibility. He plans to announce his decision sometime prior to the beginning of August. Dick Harpootlian, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, says Biden previously indicated to him he would likely make up his mind in July.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/06/17/joe-biden-hasnt-ruled-out-a-2016-run-will-decide-by-august

He's been doing that for 27 years, and I still don't view him as more than a personable talking head on the MacNeil/Lehrer newshour.

Warren > Bernie > Chafee > HillaryDynasty > JebDynasty > the scary ones.

I was thinking that surely it hurts Chafee to have crossed the floor but then Reagan switched allegiance too (earlier in his career). Also Rick Perry.

We've got a new thread, crew:

a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

Mods, close this one, please...?

not the same topic

but i need to stop anyway

scenes from marco rubio's snapchat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJZuT5AUYAEqeYd.jpg

Not casting stones, but these Iowa photos kill me.

http://i.imgur.com/18Ui4Bf.png

guys, we've got a thread for this already. I don't wanna look at Walker and HRC more than I must.

Hillary/key party

Karl did it first.

i'm not sure what's so funny about those photos. middle-aged women in iowa can't be concerned about world events?

furniture

the # of people

well first of all, it sure is bright outside on that incredible night.

talking about ISIS when you do not have a professional sports team

cabinetry

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ruNJw24v--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1338816080334214179.jpg

guess this is just how u do it now

tuck in your stomach, buddy

that's the little walk/run you do when you're crossing the street but it changes to the "don't walk" sign halfway and there are a bunch of cars waiting for you

wope, wope, wope, wope, wope

or when the microwave timer is going off and you have company and you have considerable distance to cover

wope wope wope

"Talking ISIS with Folks in Iowa" my second favorite Billy Bragg album.

hahahaha

irl lol

that scott walker pose is the exact thing i do when i cut farts with gusto in my house

well first of all, it sure is bright outside on that incredible night.

dude it's summer

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/620664029644750848

nice

hey he loves cutting stuff

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/1/11/Roberto.jpg/240px-Roberto.jpg

this didn't come out as planned but whatever

http://38.media.tumblr.com/bac78626b4572fd2639bbcee69b3d06f/tumblr_nrign7u71v1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

Should we not have locked this thread by now?

a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

It's hard to believe this Minion meme on a t-shirt loser got embarrassed by Trump at every step.

https://i.imgur.com/3WWFsq1.png