Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

i never cease to find that amazing xp

people are stupid. and they like someone who is stupid, JUST LIKE THEM

see, I don't think he is truly stupid. Never did.

Whatever happens it will be incredibly entertaining to watch.

Who was it here who characterized the successive surges of the 2012 non-Romneys as the "Angry Birds trajectory"? So apt. Perry, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum...

Conservative salivation over Cruz is delightful and life-sustaining. The dude is so obviously non palatable to the country as a whole. Yet because conservatives feel like they've been served milquetoast moderates without success, they're saying, why not try an election where they get the hard-line nominee they want? To which I say, yes, please. This nifty chart has him to the right of Goldwater: here. Please PLEASE GO THERE.

these ppl are not conservatives, they are 16th-century crackpots.

sorry if i don't find "entertainment" trumping the spectacle of Jeb-Hil's double-sealing of America's doom.

These people are just all so smart, I wish we could elect them all president.

as Bubba and Bamster have proven, you can be smart and a fucking criminal president.

So many smart criminals, I wish we could ellect them all president.

http://i.imgur.com/gykJie9.gif

still feels deeply weird to be contemplating another bush in the white house, would've seemed downright impossible eight years ago. otoh that's probably what some ppl said in 2000.

Nah ppl dumb as rocks, W could win again if he ran today.

HRC's political obituaries were written in 2008. Tot Nixon, again.

being a bush is gonna be a major liability for jeb, also prob being jeb

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/25/yes-ted-cruz-is-a-hypocrite-for-going-on-obamacare/?tid=pm_opinions_pop

With Cruz’s wife, Heidi, stepping away temporarily from her job at Goldman Sachs, the Cruz family has to get its insurance somewhere, and the Texas senator has decided that “somewhere” is HealthCare.gov. Thanks to a Republican amendment to the law, the federal government can only offer members of Congress and their staffs insurance that requires going through Obamacare exchanges. Cruz will, however, reject the 75 percent employer contribution that the federal government decided to continue offering to all members and their staffs.

Liberals quickly lobbed accusations of hypocrisy. Conservatives argued back that Cruz is just following the law, like a man who pays income tax even though he believes it is unconstitutional or who follows gun control laws that he doesn’t support.

But this isn’t a case of following the law or not. The law does not require Cruz to get health insurance on the exchanges. Instead of going through the exchanges, he could have paid the tax penalty for not having insurance, “likely cheaper than buying an insurance plan,” but at the cost of being uninsured. Or his wife could have applied to COBRA and extended her benefits from Goldman Sachs for up to 18 months, though she would have to pay all of the premium. Or he could bypass the exchanges and buy insurance directly from a private insurer. Sure, he’d have to spend time navigating the market himself, but I’m sure the Princeton graduate can figure it out.

Each of these options would cost Cruz time, money or both. But several Republican representatives already have purchased insurance without going through the exchanges, so it is clearly possible. Yes, Cruz would have to purchase a plan that meets minimum standards established under Obamacare, but anyone who thinks that someone with his resources would otherwise buy a plan with excessive co-pays or skimpy coverage is fooling themselves. And Cruz is rejecting the government’s employer contribution, even though he is entitled to it as a member of Congress. That is thousands of dollars a year, and accepting it would still be following the law. So Cruz clearly has already made the decision to spend lots of money to make a symbolic stand. Why not follow through on that and avoid the Obamacare exchanges?

fun w/ Sidney Blumenthal and a Georgian billionaire

http://gawker.com/did-clintons-backdoor-adviser-illegally-lobby-for-putin-1693111549

@ggreenwald
Harry Reid on why Hillary should be President: "Women are much more patient" & "not combative"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/harry-reid-hopes-to-ensure-democrats-success-as-tenure-winds-down.html

i'll be ordering them lots of Sbarro's pizzas

The lease is signed: Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters will work out of 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights, according to a source familiar with the deal. The campaign will occupy two full floors of the office building, which is close to 12 subways lines and a dozen bus lines, and will be taking them as is – no buildout. On its website, the building markets it as “Modern Offices. Brooklyn Cool.” The Clinton team’s neighbors in the building will be Morgan Stanley and the office of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. The clock on Clinton’s official announcement is now officially ticking. FEC rules state that you have 15 days between conducting campaign activities and filing a campaign committee.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-campaign-headquarters-brooklyn-116649.html

tim @ kfc.gov

for presidetn!!!!!!!!!!

Dug this up on some throwback Google shit, a very unilluminating experience: http://archives.timesleader.com/2000/2000_12/2000_07_09_SANTORUM_PLEDGES_TO_TRY_TO_GET__100_000_FROM_FEDS_HEADED_HAZLETO.html

Paul announces tom'w, enjoy yourselves

lol rand is announcing at the "Galt House"

so glad Paul's here to take our country back, so tired of people taking my country and not returning it

well HRC will be "making change," so hopefully you'll get fries with that.

We can listen to Paul's zingers on our own, ok?

lol

How long will the ron paul, libertarian false narrative keep up? Dude has been flip flopping left and right on key libertarian issues lately but facts can't get in the way of a good media narrative

Paul's official announcement video was yanked by YouTube after WMG slapped a copyright claim on it (he used a John Rich song). New Rand Paul campaign slogan: Property is theft!

C'mon, dude doesn't stand a chance with the wingnuts unless he talks about more money for defense. xpost

yikes. don't really care about the rand paul yelling at reporters "story" that will be forgotten about in approximately 3 days, but lol at his responsee:

Paul told Kelly that "interviews are difficult"

"...I do lose my cool"

"...I’d rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a lazy boy chair."

...Paul said that he doesn't believe people want a president who will "roll over and take it."

...Paul said that he may be thin-skinned, but that he responds to male and female reporters in the same manner.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/megyn-kelly-rand-testy

also i fully support the nickname of "teste" for rand paul

rand ball more like amirite

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/08/media/rand-paul-savannah-guthrie/

"I think I've been universally short tempered and testy with both male and female reporters. I'll own up to that," he said.

If you point out how he has changed his views on certain subjects, and ask him to explain that, he calls that a reporter "editorializing". He used that word on the Today show with Guthrie and in the CNN interview. He is being consistent with that defense...

man I dunno about the rest of you but if Cruz really already has $31 million this is gonna be *real* entertaining

and he doesn't spend a dime on hair care

Cruz's various million dollar pacs according to a Bloomberg Politics article

Each of the super-PACs—Keep the Promise and three “sub-super-PACs” dubbed Keep the Promise I, Keep the Promise II and Keep the Promise III—will be controlled by a different donor family, and will likely develop different specialities, such as data mining, television advertising and polling, the strategist said.

Keep the Promise IV-Dissing Fellow Candidates; Keep the Promise V-Insulting Mainstream Liberal Media

this is an oldie, but what in the actual fuck

he didn't think Obama's views on marriage could "get any gayer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wi7bmXFU70

Lol @ randy accepting bitcoin. Hope he gets nailed for accepting drug money or something

Lincoln Chafee goes exploring

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/09/politics/lincoln-chafee-2016-presidential-plans/index.html

I want to watch a late in the first term rand paul press conference in the white house where he just swears at reporters and challenges a couple to fisticuffs

‏@ZekeJMiller
Huckabee hits Obama for “Using his precious time in the Oval Office to call people up to congratulate them for being gay”

So glad Huckabee quit his Fox tv show to eventually not run for president.

the idea of obama calling people up to congratulate them on their gayness is good and funny

mike huckabee hates gay people so much it's almost quaint

*bass solo*

You guys write for @seinfeldtoday?

http://i.imgur.com/jwHf2KR.png

lmaooooo

i was just the 666th rt of that -_-

we all got to play our part building "the wall"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCRO2htWAAAWYUI.jpg

im so excited