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

i know this thread moves fast but come on

hahaha barely an hour before that link was reposted

wtf @ this, from a time.com post:

If Robby Mook manages Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, former journalist David Brock rules the external Clinton machine. ...

All the pushback on misleading news reports that Bernie Sanders won the Latino vote (he didn’t) in Nevada, trackers following Sanders catching his every gaffe like when he yelled “English, only!” into a mic at a Nevada event or pushing polling showing Clinton winning amongst African Americans in South Carolina—those all come from from Brock.

http://time.com/4214020/david-brock-correct-record-media-matters-hillary-clinton/

the author just tweeted they are working on a correction (how long does it take jeez)

never forget that this was a man who wrote a book called Blinded by the Right.

It's good that our media is relying more and more on the "Telephone Game" model of information dissemination.

jesus christ

the author of that paragraph is jay newton-small but yeah brock is a piece of work.

do you think that was an intentional lie or a mistake

it's hard to imagine that anyone could be following this campaign at all and think that sanders would say something like that. and even if they thought they had heard he did, printing it without checking up on it.

Hitchens on Brock's book: "I wanted to take an extra shower after trudging through this dismally written, pick-nose, spiteful and furtive little book. It glitters with malice and the more cowardly kind of "disclosure"; it’s a dank, filthy tissue turned inside out."

I can't believe how much that guy twisted the story of Sanders beating up a roomful of immigrants while screaming "ENGLISH ONLY!"

the paragraph kind of reads like a list of three "misleading news reports" but it's not clear, probably a mistake (most things are stupidity rather than malice)

A. Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism overt, subtle that were detrimental. Fortunately Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism.

lol

I would probably take the Fiorina insult over the Carson but either way we can agree that this young man shows promise as he ventures into the longer form.

they missed the one where he insulted charles krauthamer for being disabled, that was a sharp one

i'm guessing nobody copy-edited this post since it is full of run-on sentences

yeah, the sentence in question was even sort of hard to follow

I laughed hardest at the Perry insult. And speaking of which, how does "Vote Perry - The Charges Were Dropped!" grab you as a campaign slogan?

Charles Krauthammer: “should be fired”
Bill Kristol: “a sad case”, “always wrong”

stopped clock etc.

@dick_nixon
It was a goal of mine 40 years ago, along with Gov. Connally, to perhaps start a third party. You can now understand why.

erick erickson is mad, sweating and nude

http://theresurgent.com/rick-perry-for-president/

this is a perrin sock Twitter account right xp

xps how did he miss a Jeb! insult? too many to count?

also WWEism makes politics just a little bit gayer

Yeah, much like many other aspects, it would just foreground such previously obscured subtext

no Mordakins, but since you're receptive,

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/701533590027276288

"Cruz certainly has an odd face – it looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint"

keep being you, matt

second favorite description of cruz's smug mug, from this satire ~

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/bernie-sanders-is-the-worst-presidential-candidate.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

"the religious zealot who looks like a shitty caricature of Bela Lugosi drawn on a deflated leather sack"

He looks like a bust of Alfred A. Neuman that someone made out of extra-wet balogna and dropped off a bridge.

it's funny how cruz is still beating rubio in national polls but over the last week or so everyone kinda just accepted to freeze him out as a non-candidate

And adding to that:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431771/donald-trump-conservatives-principles-must-unite-stop-him

^URLs read in the voice of Frankenstein's monster

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We have to win.

Okay, I'm following your argument so far...

Rubio would likely win.

... Nope, lost me.

Well he has to say that.

I mean there is no article if at the end of the day they're going to lose whomever is nominated.

Then he'd have to get a real job.

@AP
BREAKING: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid endorses Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

@ggreenwald
I hope this will put an end to people unfairly claiming she's the Establishment Candidate.

xp: Oh I know, I'm just saying that as an outsider, recognizing full well that I am not the target audience, I would think these people were much less crazy if their rhetoric was framed as "Rubio represents our best chance to win" rather than "Rubio is likely to win" given that Rubio is, well... Rubio.

That NRO post reads like an essay from a high school junior.

afaik cruz still has not been endorsed by a single one of his colleagues in the Senate. he's being frozen out for the simple reason that everyone hates him. to god be the glory.

yeah everyone hates him but everyone hated him a month ago too. even the media isn't giving him benefit of the doubt anymore, it's just like, objectively everyone hates him, he's not gonna win, get out of here dude.

ha yeah the chatter all takes it for granted that the "establishment" will never except Cruz, and he can't beat Trump, ergo his campaign is dead

he also killed a lot of people in northern california in the late 60s and early 70s

via Greenwald, a Trump-hatin' conservative warns the Dems that he could beat them

At this point it’s possible that Trump will secure the Republican nomination in three weeks. After Florida and Ohio vote, Trump will turn his attention to the general election. He’ll be free to hone his message and adapt to the new environment. His most likely opponent, however, may still be embroiled in a contested primary. Fueled by small dollar contributions, Bernie Sanders is unlikely to leave the Democratic race any time soon. So Hillary will be running against both Bernie and Trump. And Trump will have time to figure out which lines against her work and which do not. He will use his earned media to define Clinton as weak on immigration, trade, foreign policy, and fitness for office. If past is prologue, Trump’s attacks will be loud, nasty, over the top. And they’ll work.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/7-reasons-democrats-should-be-terrified-of-donald-trump/

meh

If Trump were to win I might have to give up the internet in the interest of my mental health.

An amusement in this -- I think your second paragraph undercuts your first:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-running-mate-pick-opinion-219692

“My first job was with Jesse Helms,” said Juleanna Glover, presenting her conservative credentials. “I lived with Phyllis Schlafly. I worked for Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, Bill Kristol, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, Dick Cheney and spent half my career with John Ashcroft.”

And her views on Trump?

“He is inherently dangerous to the national interest,” she said. “Trump as the nominee is destructive, and anyone who would seriously consider being his vice president is an accomplice to that destruction.”

cruz shut down the fucking government to prove a pointless point. theres no way he's getting out of the race to help anyone.

Clinton’s Lead Is Surmountable - it is super early and i wouldn't put much stock in national polling this early

Trump’s Positions are Popular - they are not, really

Trump Will Have Months to Find and Occupy the Political Center - sure i guess

Hillary Clinton is a Terrible Presidential Candidate - sure but so is trump

The Country Wants Change - doesn't mean they want trump

Michael Bloomberg’s Entry into the Race Would Help Trump - there are no indications that he will actually enter this race

Global Chaos Helps Trump - there is not really evidence of this, esp in a matchup w/ a former secretary of state?