Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

he looks like a pervert. sounds like a pervert.

greasy weaselly used car salesman vibe

http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/__NEW/x_dc_mtp_fbnixonsweat_11101.video-260x195.jpg

haha yes

actual 1960 button

http://worthopedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumbnails2/1/0307/01/1_ffc944110851d8c92ef82551ac6e6196.jpg

Yeah, in the George W. "would be a good guy to have a beer with" category, NOBODY wants to have a beer with Ted Cruz.

if the beer were a brown ale he'd deport it

lol sigh

Sarah Kendzior ‏@sarahkendzior 46m46 minutes ago
2016 prediction: winner of presidential race will be relative of previous president; win announced on TV by relative of previous TV anchor

Ted Cruz strikes me as the type of politician whose following is mainly people who aren't stupid, but who hated school and struggled with it, who are basically ignorant about anything beyond their own experiences. They are both insecure and extremely resentful about that. They love Ted Cruz because he has all sorts of really-smart-person credentials and he thinks just like they do so his existence is hugely validating for them. You can travel pretty far on that ticket, but not to a presidency.

The Cruz that emerges from the New Yorker profile I recognize from guys I've met: sons of Cuban parents who resent anyone looking as if he or she got a free ride despite knowing (and their parents' boring them with the stories) that their parents got the most generous refugee package in the history of U.S. immigration. He's also supposedly one of the best lawyers to argue before SCOTUS in a generation.

his anti-immigration shit is just amazing given his background

see it every day

Alcoholics and ex smokers are the biggest scolds.

He's also supposedly one of the best lawyers to argue before SCOTUS in a generation.

I was thinking about this the other day. I've read on several occasions about how smart he's alleged to be, but this procedural backfire last weekend seems like a dummkopf's move, Bachmannesque or Rickperryish. Some long game in the works?

Plenty of presidents were good lawyers.

he must realize that a ton of his support is from racist "he's one of the GOOD immigrants!" assholes. I suppose he's power-hungry enough to not care but it's got to bug him on some level. giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's not a sociopath, which perhaps I shouldn't.

have they even established he can run for president, what with the whole born-in-Alberta thing?

i have no doubt he's a brilliant lawyer. being a brilliant politician is a largely different set of skills.

doesn't matter anyway.

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jeb gonna be pre-si-dent.

Jeb Bush is a colorless campaigner. He won in Florida the first time against the tree stump of a lieutenant governor briefly governor after his beloved predecessor, the second at the peak of his superior older bro's popularity.

*after the death of his beloved predecessor

I have never seen Jeb speak/campaign etc. I'm curious about his skills in comparison to Romney and McCain who were both never going to overcome their limitations as old white bores.

He is undoubtedly the harder worker of the two, but he's as charmless as a copy machine and is crippled by (a) turning Florida into a lab for No Child Left behind (b) speaking fluent Spanish.

holy shit he is stiff as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIB0aTmm-s8

it is really not fun to listen to jeb talk

my reporter friend who covered state politics in the mid 2000s said Jeb was the sort of guy who'd respond to emails at 2 a.m. -- it wasn't staff -- and was well informed on anything; he had impressive command of state infrastructure. But the guy was a Trojan horse for the Codina family: a plutocrat with a good memory basically.

he's like a bad first-time guest lecturer at a community college

I mean, George W. Bush was a vivid campaigner in '04. It's impossible to imagine Jeb getting riled up except getting his table mixed up with mine at the Coral Gables Hillstone.

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

haha agree w/all comparisons to pieces of furniture

Dubya was a horrible monster of a president but there is no denying he had that avuncular aw shucks I'm-just-a-regular guy aura.

also...

there's Terri Schiavo, which I will never let anyone forget.

lol I forgot that was in Florida. You guys have the weirdest cause celebres - Schiavo, Elian Gonzalez

jeb bush isn't crippled by speaking spanish! he's not going to be the president, but it isn't because of that.

that action proved Bush was a menace and didn't believe in modest conservatism

jeb bush is crippled by being made out of styrofoam

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he wasn't born, he was extruded

i can't confirm that, but it sounds right.

sr was kinda styrofoamy tho no?

not the same.

Sr. had the bitter, steely anger of a career cloak-n-dagger plutocrat, Jeb looks like a plushtoy by comparison

also Sr.'s competition was a midget with a funny name.

sr. had a good vibe for being bitter/steely angry, based on his poorly-concealed irritation with reagan.

Sr. always puts me in mind of Burroughs injunction about building up a "kind, avuncular, benevolent" image (altho obviously that applies to Reagan too)

Reagan didn't irritate him -- Reagan's asshole Fed Society staff did.

does everyone remember how peevish and childish Poppy got when criticized? His English would collapse like a sea wall.

c'mon, everyone. amend the 22nd amendment -- just this one time.

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

for the memories. for the lolz.

^^ that Bush could speak Spanish too, fwiw.

watching that while Sugah Daddy is playing is disturbing

he spoke Spanish like Geir speaks rhythm.

i want to have a beer with w, right now.

He speaks English like that too, bough. Xp

voting Jeb/Cruz in 2016 then leaving the country for good. so long suckas!