I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

not particularly impressive imo. you want an impressive record you look at someone like Waxman, you look at people that get bills through committees, or people that actually *head* committees - Sanders is not that guy and Frank is largely correct as to why.

I mean being effective in Congress is about working the system, literally. It's building and exploiting relationships, seniority, arm-twisting, vote-counting, committee hearings, navigating intra-party squabbles, all that stuff. Things Sanders waves away with his "revolution", which he doesn't even have Obama numbers/organization to back up.

at least i get to vote for feingold

― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, February 5, 2016 5:35 PM (34 minutes ago)

feingold is still young, maybe we can draft him in 8 years

xp Its not like Sanders even had to deal with diverse constituents either since Vermont is crackerville usa

feingold's 62!

he mooted a run once, and abandoned the prospect. i suspect he just ain't interested.

oh wow why did i think he was like in his early 50s

he's kind of youthful-seeming, i guess. i'm surprised that he's 62, too! but he is.

Is Ted Cruz the biggest nerd to ever make a serious run at the Republican presidential nomination?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mcie4Nasw

He's the worst kind of nerd too: rich, vindictive, evangelical.

I really hope he wins the nom so I can savor the spectacle of him being wedgied into oblivion in the general

yah the rich, vindictive, preachy seems accurate. feel like he might be scarily more palatable if he had a beard and glasses.

ted cruz honestly makes me think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EO9y4rGxvk

Cruz reminds me of:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_Mm4qUue--/196qxycq0lk1djpg.jpg

i find the ILX confidence that an 8-year Democratic prez is being elected in the fall to be touchingly amusing.

also a personal source confirms that BS has done a pretaped SNL bit with LD.

uh who has said HRC and Sanders would be elected twice

feingold is still young, maybe we can draft him in 8 years

― k3vin k., Friday, February 5, 2016 6:12 PM

k3vin is hoping for a Dem hope after an eight-year Cuban administration.

well i'm just assuming that if a democrat does win this election, which seems likely, then that same person is likely to have the nomination in 2020

you might wanna factor in the actuarial tables with this pair.

It is kinda creepy that Poppy Bush is the only one-term president many of you can remember.

I'll put money on hillary being a one term prez. Altho who the GOP could field to beat her is nightmarish to consider.

Hell, I'm so old I even remember a half term prez.

It is kinda creepy that Poppy Bush is the only one-term president many of you can remember.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius),

http://parterre.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Its_obvious_youre_not_a_woman.jpg

"It's obvious you're not a woman."

man your Mankiewicz pathology has metastasized into a rolling non sequitur

so has your age obsession

it is a cold, cruel, unfeeling age

robert maynard's question at 9:45 is a hoot! lust and Playboy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuaPct7gH1w

the '70s were wack

http://i.imgur.com/xTQzTXK.gif

there are still moderate republicans but they never get much higher than, like, the city council level

my stepfather, who will turn 80 in june, just became a democrat

http://cdn2.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/week-in-review-emma-watson-jelena.gif

it took 20 years to make it official, but yeah

If Clinton and Schumer are in charge next year, it'll be a smooth transition for him.

so has your age obsession

HMMMMM? You mean being old enough to know that "Reagan was a political genius" is horseshit, sonny?

terruhr

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

god hearing his voice again, arhghghghhghghghghg
it's pavlovian, i can't deal with this.

the PAC name "Right to Rise" is one of the most incredible aesthetic feats in modern politics imo

A firefight on sexism/Clinton/Sanders broke out on a famed gay writer's FB wall, and my God it made me not want to live much more than even these threads. tabes showed up in good form.

HMMMMM? You mean being old enough to know that "Reagan was a political genius" is horseshit, sonny?

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius),

I will keep doing, but not worth it!

I don't remember the GHWB years at all. I don't think I knew who was President until the 1996 election.

ford was the first person i really remember. i mean i knew nixon's face and who he was but i remember seeing ford talk on t.v. and chevy made him a human for us. and then of course the 1976 thing was such a huge year for me as a kid. me and neighborhood kids got in the paper for writing carter grafitti on the sidewalk. election fever. bicentennial hoohah. and then carter just looked sadder and more tired on t.v. every year. but we had billy to keep us entertained.

i was a big bush supporter in 1992

and then carter just looked sadder and more tired on t.v. every year.

See, that's the Carter I personally remember. Everyone always went on about his big smile and pearly teeth, but I only knew him as

http://i.imgur.com/VQ62zDs.jpg

^^ Know what the context is of that photo? Answering questions about the Iran hostage crisis? No. Addressing concerns about Three Mile Island? No....

... He's officially announcing that he will run for a second term in 1980.

this is the Jimmy C I remember. jumping jimmy carter, they called him.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1382607/original.jpg

do you guys know what gerald ford's real name was? NO GOOGLING.

Leslie.

He was a guy named Leslie.

leslie . . . king? something like that

Leslie Lynch King Jr.!

good job ford nerds.

I don't remember the GHWB years at all. I don't think I knew who was President until the 1996 election.

― example (crüt), Saturday, February 6, 2016 1:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not much worth remembering, other than his classic "no new taxes" gaffe, Iraq War, and that he liked making short people feel bad.