Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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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

some clumsy stuff trying to co-opt/neutralize Warren cited there

imo its at least a good sign that she feels the need to acknowledge anyone to her left

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_04/a_loud_n_proud_christian_right055264.php

Republican proto-candidates for president trooped to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s big 2015 cattle call and were loud ‘n’ proud as ever in their commitment to the culture wars.

same 'ol, same 'ol here

meant to post this 2-week-old Taibbi piece on the reportorial/editorial predictability of reacting to the fakery of candidates like "populist" Grandma Fraud:

Hillary's first official week as a presidential candidate went exactly as her handlers must have hoped.

At launch she talked a streak of anti-elitist rhetoric that was taken seriously for a few days, until the punditry took the temperature of her populism and declared to it be the right kind: the fake kind, the purely strategic kind.

The congoscenti even seemed to applaud Clinton for sounding enough like Elizabeth Warren to preclude the necessity of the actual Elizabeth Warren running for president, Warren being the wrong kind of populist, the real kind....

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/campaign-2016-hillary-clintons-fake-populism-is-a-hit-20150416

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce his plans to seek the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, presenting a liberal challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Sanders, an independent who describes himself as a "democratic socialist," will follow a formal statement with a major campaign kickoff in his home state in several weeks. Two people familiar with his announcement spoke to The Associated Press under condition of anonymity to describe internal planning.

anyone why know why Sanders is doing this at this particular moment? seems kinda random.

this is really gonna force clinton to tack left and answer some difficult questions

lol

god, this country

do you mean this week, or in this campaign? The crown is practically on HRC's head already, if the former.

xp

if he lasts to the NY primary, i suppose i'll vote for him, tho he's not a socialist and he has the same shot at the office that i do.

our votes are meaningless anyway, might as well vote for him

haha I will totally vote for him in a CA primary if it comes to that

I meant this cycle

xp

anyone why know why Sanders is doing this at this particular moment? seems kinda random.

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:38 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i love bernie he is such an awesome grumpy loon

total institution in vermont he is beloved shows up for every little fn event, ive seen him at tiny a local parade and a hippie music festival and an art opening just to mention a few

Its pretty legit that at age 73 he's like 'fuck it lets waste a shitload of time in iowa, I got a point to prove'

"fuck it ive got a point to prove" is m/l his whole reason for being

i mean he calls himself a socialist and is in the us senate lol

its funny cause is is so not vermont hes all grumpy and has a heavy old school new york accent but they love him anyway

total institution in vermont he is beloved shows up for every little fn event, ive seen him at tiny a local parade and a hippie music festival and an art opening just to mention a few

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 5:45 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a thing i've never thought about, where east coast national reps are prob more visible and expected to be part of the community, whereas the idea of seeing jeff merkley at the rose festival is just bizarre to me

but then i guess ron wyden literally bumped me with his shopping cart at the grocery store a couple years back so whatever

yeah obvs its somewhat a function of the size of the state and distance from DC but also some politicians are just much more into retail politics than others, its a great approach to getting reelected tbh, in this particular case vermont is just very tiny and has no citizens

generally its house reps who are more the retail politics types

vermont has more senators than reps tho lol

defazio is pretty active in PDX yeah

Hillary once shouted down a primary challenger to Bill in the middle of the Park Plaza food court. Both of them becoming presidents of the United States was the last thing I could've fathomed.

bills rise to power is a pretty unrealistic journey

#bilderberg