Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

and if they did this wld all be a lot sadder and funnier than it is, like hes exactly ron paul of the left

reminds me of when dean was running and it wld just make me think of montpelier like u realize the state he was govenor ofs capital has three streets

like theres prob as many ppl within two miles of where i sit now as there are in vermont

plucky underdog ted cruz netted like 10x that much money after his announcement

i look forward to bernies campaign just because he is close to my heart not because it matters

I can't tell if Bernie is the real deal or just a left-wing troll. Taibbi seems to think he's for real, and he's usually pretty damn cynical, but I don't know...

I thought Dean's entire campaign was vaporware from day 1 so I wasn't surprised when he tanked; what I was surprised about was people latching onto The Scream as the reason why his campaign flopped.

bernie is way too much of a weirdo to have any impact amongst anyone who doesnt already totally agree with him

like he is a literally grumpy old man

yeah that's the Big Lie of our political era for sure

xps

he is not national candidate material

OTOH Dean Scream was the day after my birthday, it was like a belated present full of lol so I can't be too mad at it

it was a magic bullet for the Democlican Establishment and the Beltway Pigs.

and Dean wasn't even all that liberal.

they'd kill a leftist who got near the nomination.

reminds me of when dean was running and it wld just make me think of montpelier like u realize the state he was govenor ofs capital has three streets

We have six streets here, and it still weirds me out that the guy who used to go jogging around town wearing a shirt that said THE GOV on it got elected President of the United States of America.

little rock is literally 100x bigger than montpelier!

Ok, we have 12 streets.

Population: 7,755 (2013)
Population: 197,357 (2013)

(~25x)

Have warmer feelijgs for Dean now; he'd make a better prez now than he would've then.

but the rise of bill clinton was very improbable to be sure

wait I had no idea Montpelier was that small

like, that is less than half the size of my home town

Montpelier: Population 7,855

all right you got me. I honestly was expecting a number over five digits.

lol u didnt believe meeeeee

the dean scream wasn't even THAT bad

http://i.imgur.com/rzu1Jsx.jpg

p much fits under where it say montpelier there

v cute lil town btw

Add in East Montpelier and you get over 10K.

the Scream was total bullshit.... at least the nomination then went to Frankenkerry, who made no gaffes at all on the stump that year.

is there a McDonalds there?

ya

hm, sounds nice

Add in East Montpelier and you get over 10K.

― pplains, Monday, May 11, 2015 4:13 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh fine just add in e montpelier throw in barre too who cares

http://i.imgur.com/u59ZkLE.jpg

lmao

When I first met my wife, the news was all about Al Gore endorsing Dean.

By the time she left for back home, it was just after the Dean scream.

But boy, what a January that was!

what a cute little place.

http://i.imgur.com/MtE8pV3.png

fantastic location for beer nerds tho lol smh

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

the critical battleground city of montpelier

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

there she blows

even the state capitol is smaller than I imagined.

http://i.imgur.com/lYcumt3.jpg

lol

Board of Estimate

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/683/Newh15.jpg

nice

http://watchdog.org/217942/christie-nj-expense-account/

the joeks the joeks

http://i.imgur.com/u59ZkLE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6iYyTRR.jpg

Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM 5m5 minutes ago
Jeb Bush says he "misheard the question" about invading Iraq, doesn't clarify further.

o jeb

You go to interviews with the questions you hear.

is jeb really 'the smart one'?

everything i've seen so far suggests he's a terrible politician; at best he's so rusty he's decomposed. at least his brother knew how to campaign.

yeah being smart and being a good politician dont necessarily always correlate

Jeb Bush says he "misheard the question" about invading Iraq, doesn't clarify further.

tbh, i totally believe that. it doesn't matter - he fucked up - but the way he answered the question suggested that he thought he was being asked if he supported invading Iraq at the time:

"Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?" Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked Bush in a sit-down interview.

"I would have," Bush said.

"And so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody," he added. "And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got."

and the reference to hillary clinton supports that as well, because hopefully he has heard that hillary reversed her stance on the war (in her most recent book, at least - she didn't change her stance in time for the 2008 primary obv)

http://i.imgur.com/EN9lmws.jpg

again, it doesn't matter either way, because he already fucked up. if it does turn out to be hillary vs jeb, she can say that he still supports the war, even to this day, and his only defense will be a confusing explanation that he misheard the question or something, which will make no sense to anyone a year from now when everyone's forgotten the original question, how it was stated, and exactly how he answered it.