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

on keeping Sanders honest, from the left

(OTM re "I am not a pacifist")

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Keeping-Bernie-Honest-Support-for-Sanders-Has-to-Be-Critical-20160211-0010.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66fyBz2GhCA&feature=youtu.be

bernie looks exactly the same at 45 as he does at 74 lol

I always say this, which ensures I'll be right 17% of the time: tonight's debate (yes, another one) could be nasty. Maybe Trump-Cruz, probably Bush-Rubio, undoubtedly Bush-Trump. I also think there's an 82% chance that Carson will make it to the podium within 15 seconds of his name being called.

Rubio has probably been advised not to adhere so close to the script, so faced with the prospect of having to impromptu speak, he will probably fake laryngitis and communicate only with exaggerated facial expressions.

also why has nobody pulled Trump's wig off and thrown it into the audience yet, let's fight theatre with theatre

Scalia's death is the first thing that has made a primary-season debate tempting to watch.

Three or four hours after the fact, have to believe they're all going to step lightly around this--gushing tributes, acknowledgement of the impact on the election, but careful not to appear too political. Which will last one day.

Cruz has already commented on Obama not being allowed to nom the replacement

tho not surprising that he, the hated stepchild of the GOP, would be the one to say it so abruptly

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013.

Jeffrey Toobin's been hyping him on CNN the past hour.

Scalia's death is the first thing that has made a primary-season debate tempting to watch.

otm

Lol "allowed"

doesn't seem super smart to obstruct a SC nominee and then spend an entire election year fighting against the first woman major party nominee over Roe

http://i.imgur.com/PiYlbgM.png

Justice Roberts, when pressed for comment:

"When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'"

er, where do they ask that anymore? turkey?

btw how do circuit judges get confirmed 97-0 when the parties 'have never been so polarized'?

because bullshit, that's how

THEY MADE IT OUT ONSTAGE OKAY.

Not meant to be funny, but it was--CBS brings all six onstage at the same time.

lool

none of these people know how to speak. it's so sad to listen to.

lets dispel with the idea that justice scalia didn't know what he was doing he knew exactly what he was doing graaaahhh

Former Rehnquist clerk Ted Cruz was sonned about Anthony Kennedy's nomination vs confirmation

"I ONLY TELL THE TRUTH, LOBBYISTS!" - THE TRUMP

In case you missed it, Trump accused the audience of being lobbyists for Jeb.

Kasich: "If he were to nominate somebody, let's have him pick somebody that is gonna have unanimous approval and such widespread approval across the country that this could happen without a lot of recrimination."

That person is nonexistent, and Kasich knows this (because two seconds earlier he said "the country is so divided.")

Going on, "I would like the president just for once here to put the country first."

You mean like a Republican president would be doing in his shoes?

"THERE WERE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!" - The Trump

GOP debate is some jerry springer rn

this trump/jeb thing is pretty beautiful tbh, trump wildly self-destructing while, bafflingly, being sorta the only OTM guy on the whole stage

jeb: my mom is one of the strongest people on earth.

trump: she should be running.

SNAP

Audience as 7th debater is great.

(xpost) I caught that line and laughed.

I don't know...Does Trump really want to spend the whole night with the crowd, I mean lobbyists, booing him en masse?

I probably would vote for Barbara Bush in a GOP primary.

who is this audience even in the bag for

this audience is insane

they'll boo pretty much anybody and then cheer them wildly 3 seconds later

the most likely frontrunner for the republican nomination at this pt has now loudly denounced GWB at a debate for lying the country into Iraq and letting 9/11 happen

"Moon everybody"? I think these two guys really do hate each other.

I think Dem moles have been passing bottles of hooch around in the audience.

the most likely frontrunner for the republican nomination at this pt has now loudly denounced GWB at a debate for lying the country into Iraq and letting 9/11 happen

― Mordy, Saturday, February 13, 2016 9:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the most fascinating primary season of my lifetime. it's just fucking nuts. i can't say that enough.

yup

it's just fucking weird that the supposed "moderate" GOP candidate -- the one that seems, possibly, marginally palatable to centrists, is the one (sort of) defending the invasion of iraq, while a bigoted demagogue celebrity leading the race is loudly condemning same.

i mean i know trump is in a grand (?) tradition, but folks in that tradition seldom gets anywhere near the nomination-- often they're so marginal they're locked out of the debates.

actually, aside from the baseline xenophobia and anti-intellectualism, trump seems to confound some of the usual categories. you'd expect him to be an isolationist, for instance, and sometimes he makes out like one, but more often he's reflexively macho and belligerent.

trump and cruz yelling at each other about women's health

Ronald Reagan "didn't tear down people like Donald does -- he tore down the Berlin Wall."

this is pretty great

Have any of the other debates been cages matches like this?

I constantly shake my head in amazement watching Trump during these debates.

Marco Rubio yelling about block grants and Nikki Haley