Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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Dude really sells Maumee hard at the end, there.

Woah, I was in Toledo today.

Ships in night.

http://i.imgur.com/HV0Tz3q.jpg

there it is folks

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

lol this site has some good stuff

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the post-Obamacare era

we are year 2 POE

Restoring the American Dream would require buying a lot of hard to find parts. I say we settle for a new coat of paint.

http://i.imgur.com/lS3BPQE.png

http://i.imgur.com/X1hS6SC.png

lol

"we live in a country that allows us to experience life lessons" is killing me

he looks so sleepy

Uh, leaving aside the obvious precedent of FDR, Winston Churchill, an heroic figure in the conservative pantheon if ever there was one, cheerfully negotiated with Stalin on numerous occasions.

not cheerfully

b-but... they served brandy!

the united states negotiates with dictators like every day, many of our closest allies are dictatorships

like, he fought negotiations at every level until FDR realized that Winston was out for the British Empire and nothing else

a bit like Rubio and the American Empire

wait a minute, i've totally seen this before.

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

or i just made that up, one of the two.

lol

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

obummer doesnt know shit about negotiating, i freak out just trying to obtain a sip water btw

If a front-runner eats a burrito but no one hears it...

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

... wait, let me think of another direction to go with that.

Haha holy crap at the amazing font(s) on the Iran nuclear weapons one

only 90s kids will understand

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lol

Not really into all these candidates being born in the 1970s.

All presidents should have been born between 1909 and 1924. No more, no less.

I want to vote for Rubio, but since he's not the son or spouse of a former president i'm just not comfortable

I had to look up Rubio's bio to confirm that the 'holy shit this psycho is my age' stage of life has been reached.

All presidents should have been born between 1909 and 1924. No more, no less.

― pplains, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 4:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Interestingly, while this criterion admits JFK, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush I, you could extend your range forward to 1945 and change nothing - the only 'serious' nominees born between the second Coolidge term and FDR's death are, I think, John McCain, Fritz Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and Ross Perot. I believe Mondale is the only Korean War vet to ever get the nod, which sort of sums up the whole forgotten/silent generation thing. Having twelve years in a row of popular geezer presidents sort of blocked them out of the picture, though really it's amazing the Republicans were still fielding a WW2 hero in 1996. Should have gone with...uh... Arlen Specter, I guess.

someone made a whole hillary font and ppl have being joshing around on twitter with it

http://i.imgur.com/7w4SufD.png

I just threw up in my mind.

Just what I needed, a nominee who's on to me.

Having twelve years in a row of popular geezer presidents ...

This country will very likely never have a president born in the 1930s. Likewise, odds are getting slimmer we'll have one from the 1950s.

We'll see if Jeb, Huck, Ben Carson and Rick Perry mention that in their opening day speeches.

http://i.imgur.com/CGoGwq2.gif

Excellent.

It is weird to think about that generation thing. We had 16 years of Clinton (b. 1946) and Bush II (b. 1946). If say Romney (b. 1947) had been elected in 2008, and then Hillary (b. 1947) in 2016 we could have conceivably seen 32 straight years of presidents from the same mini-generation.

lost opportunity, b 1949

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.436738!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/alg-springsteen-obama-jpg.jpg

my fave candidate this time is a year too young (b '82), but I'm sure the Supreme Court would vote to seat him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=460FZat2U6A

http://time.com/3823064/elizabeth-warren-2015-time-100

Beautiful.

Ah, sorry - didn't spot that it's a writer's credit.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/04/20/koch-brothers-signal-support-for-scott-walker/

just expressin opinionz and stuff in teh political process

Great news. What a clusterfuck this is gonna be.

Tried to think of a fitting remark about Santorum and loss of traction, but nothing oozed out.

lol koch bros getting ready to line the pockets of scott walkers campaign consultants for no reason

for ppl so interested in politics they have really very little feel for it its quite something

rebranding/pig+lipstick etc: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/politics/hillary-clintons-quest-to-prove-her-populist-edge-is-as-strong-as-elizabeth-warrens.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0