Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

hasn't being out of office for 6-1/2 years sent GWB's poll numbers zooming? "hey he's laffin' it up with Bill Clinton, everyone likes him"

i knew there was something missing in my life in 2012!

increased approval is standard for ex presidents but it wont be hard to remind ppl what a bummer he was

clinton wld be overjoyed to have the general come down to brand bush v brand clinton btw

yeah, was gonna say. remembering the 90s is generally a more pleasant experience than remembering the 00s

Wonder if Bill will sneak some debate advice to Jeb like he did for Mitt.

well, except for the people who got thrown off welfare or bought paper houses. xp

just talking abt as an election srategy, obvs bill clinton is one of histories greatest monsters irl

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/598193075085783040

okay maybe the designer they hired was onto something after all

hell, i'll make some of those for you all for $3.

such a power move to be mononymous enough to brand yourself by a single letter and yet still pretend it's all about giving other people/states/causes representation.

we all need a brand to follow

Huckabee's design team in full panic mode

ok i'm back. now who's next?

http://i.imgur.com/ZJiiFI0.jpg

lmao

they can't use anything that uses his last name because it just tempts people to think of fuckabee

xpost lol

You forget that the previous governor's name was Jim "Guy" Tucker. You wanna talk about slips of the tongue.

Yeah, GWB is going to be an enormous albatross for Jeb.

"And our next question is for Governor... Bush? Of the Asshole Bushes?"

lol

and as if on cue:
Calling in to Sean Hannity’s syndicated radio show, [Jeb] Bush said he had misunderstood a question that one of Mr. Hannity’s Fox News colleagues, Megyn Kelly, had asked him in an interview shown on Sunday and Monday nights.

“I interpreted the question wrong, I guess,” Mr. Bush said. “I was talking about, given what people knew then.”

The attempt at mopping-up was quick, but it did not bring the controversy to an immediate end: When Mr. Hannity asked about the 2003 Iraq invasion again, in yes-or-no fashion, Mr. Bush said he did not know what the answer would have been, saying, “That’s a hypothetical.” Then, he seemed to go out of his way to absolve his brother, former President George W. Bush, who ordered the invasion: “Mistakes were made, as they always are in life,” Mr. Bush said.

this is the best u can do J.E.B.

apparently jeb also told someone at an event this afternoon that speculating on what he would do, given the information he has now, would be a "disservice" to the troops who have already served.

"If we are going to get into hypotheticals, I think it does a lot of disservice for a lot of people who sacrificed a lot," Bush said, according to Chalian's tweets.

"Going back in time, does a disservice for them," he said, according to Chalian.

Who could've thought Presidentin' would be so darn hard!

"I don't want to have to tell those people they died for nothing... (please don't make me say it)"

going back in time wld be extremely tight actually

to me the best response is prob "i wldve invaded north korea instead"

then at least ppl know that when u go back in time they will still sacrifice

I guess it's cool to make people die for no good reason, as long as everyone is too polite to talk about it

xp

"i wldve invaded a very cool to invade country that i will prob still invade if... you make me the next president of the united states! and if u dont ill never tell u which country it is it could be any of them and there are more than one hundred"

a good debate question wld be "which country will u invade if elected president"

No fair invading Grenada again, though. It's paid its dues.

they would all say Iran

if you could invade any central american country, which one would you choose and why?

Walmart-Clinton pledges to save Rwanda this time

candidates lining up for this one

Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM 2m2 minutes ago
Rand Paul to Jeb Bush: "invading Iraq was a mistake" — even as a hypothetical

Talking Points Memo ‏@TPM 24h24 hours ago
Chris Christie: I wouldn't have invaded Iraq knowing what we know now

is someone gonna punch a hole in that "knowing what we know now" cuz um there were a bunch of us who knew BACK THEN that it was a stupid fucking idea

but we were all unpatriotic terrorist-sympathizing dangerously naive idjits

and/or professional weapons inspectors

sad lol

indulging the convenient collective amnesia of "mistakes were made/what we know now" media narrative infuriates me so much - as if there are not very specific people to blame for that war, and as if everyone who went along with it shouldn't have to admit that they were either too gullible or too cowardly to stop it.

otm

Most of us were there during those horrible months in 2002 and 2003. Of course We Didn't Know if Saddam had nukes or bio weapons -- that was never the point! He had nothing do with 9-11, the sanctions were working, and what was the bloody rush? Plenty of countries own nukes, and only has used them iirc.

We also knew then and now that you are more likely to be killed by your own furniture than a terrorist plot.

also that invading north korea wldve been a lot cooler

think of the "24" episodes it could have inspired! K-Suth glowering about a foot rest falling on a child's head.

y'know invading North Korea probably would've gone more smoothly

The invasion went great, occupation the issue

eh we coulda left that to South Korea