Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

then we'll all be able to directly invest money into our favorite elected corporations, and finally the market will be free

Pitchfork vs Koch Bros

having a corporation be in charge of the country wld be genuinely fascinating im ready for this historic experiment

voting apple btw they have the best combination of empathy, vision, and efficiency while still understanding (tbf like all corporations and everyone) that rich ppl are better than poor

We did try corporation rule from the 1870s through 1932.

voting apple because their campaign would offer anyone who voted for them 20% off their next Apple purchase over $1000

oh man, the corporate synergies that would be possible...bipartisan corporate synergy

"Going forward, we will leverage the Constitution as we make a good faith effort to connect with targets!"

I doubt it's going to be J. Bush.

idk the one w the money tends to win

like who do you see out-spending Jeb?

McKinley.

Surely brownie meant:

"Going forward, we will leverage the Constitution as we make a good faith effort to connect with Target!"

Scott Walker is carefully positioning himself as the alternative to Jeb that the wingnuts will embrace, who the Big Money republicans can still work with. That strategy might possibly work, but it all depends on the wingnuts coming through for him and they prefer to scavenge shinier objects.

if Jeb Bush is the nominee he will eventually sound like Scott Walker.

there was no difference between Romney and Cain and Gingrich and the other morons last time around.

No real difference b/w Obama and HRC for that matter.

mmm I can think of a couple differences

or are you strictly talking policy+rhetoric

i.e. death threats against the Republic.

finally the elites will get to just pick who they want.

Sorry but LOL this has been the way it's been for a long long long time.

sure but now they are abandoning even the pretense of requiring the approval of the masses

jeb will be the nominee

sure but now they are abandoning even the pretense of requiring the approval of the masses

People are always making the pretense accusation, though; I wouldn't be surprised if it's been around for centuries. I mean, the whole Electoral College thing is a deliberate obstacle before the masses.

something called the Three-Fifths Clause too iirc

I can't imagine they would nominate Walker; he might be their fantasy candidate but he has no chance in hell of wining the general election (just like Bernie Sanders doesn't have a chance).

finding more than a handful of presidential elections that weren't picked and more or less decided by elites might be kind of challenging

they may have all been picked and decided by elites, but usually there's some rabble-rousing involved. neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.

walker seems very not ready for primetime from what ive seen, hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him as far as navigating the actual campaign

neither Jeb nor Hillary can raise any rabble.

IDK, Hillary seems to have a strong following among the Tumblr set.

Also the PUMAs from 2008 are probably still around.

http://luckovich.blog.ajc.com/2015/03/10/311-luckovich-hillarys-pen-pal/

hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him

may i introduce you to a coupla presidents named Bush

plz plz 'shop a photo of Thrillary in a NASCAR jacket with all her corp pimps' logos on it.

Hillary's email circus is actually making me excited about the election. This issue won't take her down.

sometimes i trick myself into thinking that lots of people are disappointed with the way the democratic side of this is shaping up, but then i see polls like this:

http://i.imgur.com/hLr7KvD.jpg

http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/15110_nbc-wsj_march_poll_3-9-15_release.pdf

i guess it's more accurate to say that lots of people ARE disappointed (21% of likely democratic voters is a large number), but not enough to make a difference.

I'd be surprised to hear that a majority of Republicans would favour their past (and future) Clown Car Season to a nice smooth coronation.

"disappointment" is a helluva drug

The week before the email story broke Hillary pocketed $300,000 for a Silicon Valley speech she gave to “women in technology.” Her campaign—no matter what the pundits say, and however she may pay for it, she has one—spun it as a preview of her 2016 ‘message.’ If so, she has a mountain of work to do. A month after the president struck a new and widely applauded populist chord in his State of the Union, Clinton managed to sound like the old consensus-seeking Obama. She actually vowed to restore bipartisanship in words so corny it hurt to hear them: “I’d like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, get them into a nice warm purple space where everybody is talking and where we’re actually trying to solve problems.”

She recited the usual Democratic economic litany but took care not to offend the odd technology billionaire who might be listening. Given the venue, one might expect as much, but weeks later she offered up the same riff, worse actually, at an Emily’s List gala where she called for a “new participation age” and for America to “help more people start small businesses and invest in the…entrepreneurs that will create the new jobs of tomorrow.” Also, Hillary said she’d cut “red tape.”

The Emily’s List audience was worshipful and Hillary tried her hardest to be more spontaneous and “real.” That meant two lame pantsuit jokes, another about her hair and one about the color of that Internet dress. Talking about Sen. Barbara Mikulski she said, “We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues … for hardworking families they’re one and the same.” Listening to it all a second time, I felt bad for her.

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/15/hillarys_meritocracy_problem_the_gop_will_paint_her_as_an_elitist_and_the_right_can_make_that_charge_stick/

“We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues.

- Abraham Lincoln

The uniting color she's thinking of is not purple it's green.

hillary clinton is the fucking worst and this campaign is going to be terrible

no, the fucking worst is going to be all your friends who don't really follow politics and are #ReadyForHillary

No doubt about it, this is gonna be a grim campaign, akin to bush v. Dukakis

Yoo-hoo! Hillary!

Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html

i'm so #readyforhillary

figures, it's been awhile since she hugged Mrs Arafat

they kissed, bro

suha isn't so bad tho, she was just married to a monster

i just think that it's about time the US has a female president and all the better that she's the better half of the US's greatest POTUS administration since 1969

I don't think michelle Obama is gonna run tho

do u really feel like michelle is heavily involved in the obama wh?