Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

A particularly apt quote from Krugman regarding Jeb Bush's policy advisors:

Simply raising questions about the orthodoxies of the moment leads to excommunication, from which there is no coming back. So the only “experts” left standing are those who made all the approved mistakes.

bizarre to see Clinton trying to move in on Warren's territory at the same time Jeb Bush is going after, like, Huckabee's

not really?

one does craven more smoothly than the other

Clearly part of the current GOP would-be contender charm offensive: http://www.examiner.com/article/george-w-bush-to-college-grads-you-don-t-have-to-be-too-smart-to-be-president

jeb doesn't want anyone to forget that he hates the gays too!

oh shit i almost forgot, thanks for the reminder jeb!

Such a fucking cheat that he is John not Jebediah.

haha wait what

John Ellis Bush

sry u had to find out this way

That's it, he's lost my vote. Fucker.

Wouldn't Jeb Bush be redundant, then? It'd be like scuba apparatus.

atm machine

Just George Oscar Bluth, you see.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fUFVZkm_iwk/mqdefault.jpg

Wouldn't Jeb Bush be redundant, then?

haha yeah so he's really Jeb Ush

ha ppl shd start addressing him that way without admitting it it sounds almost the same but not quite

I'm fine with Je Bush.

Or maybe everyone should call him John E or just plain E, like they did with his brother.

John E. "Smoke" Bush

lol

I like JE (sounds like "Gee") let's go with that

"JE Bush, did you think up that answer all by yourself?"

"JE that sounds like a terrible idea, have you really thought this through"

Clearly someone realized really early on that "J. E. Bush" sounded way too much like a robber baron. While I'd love for the news to start calling him that, it does border on "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" stuff.

Like the Tea Baggers and "Hussein", I just want the American people to realize that John Bush share the same first name as the guy who shot Reagan.

haha

Lincoln had a secretary named Jeb.

Christie attacked "civil liberties extremists" in a 50-MINUTE foreign policy speech in New Hampshire.

Now srsly, who the fuck could listen to that?

LIVE FREE OR DIE WHAT THE SHIT KIND OF LICENCE PLATE IS THAT FFS SOMEON BRING ME A SCHOOL TEACHER TO YELL AT

@ggreenwald
Beautiful, Cozy Bipartisanship: Hillary Clinton Paid by Education Company Partially Owned & Managed By .... Jeb Bush

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/18/hillary-clinton-paid-jeb-bushs-education-company/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFeYtE3WIAE-RfL.jpg

So high, you can't get over it...

not good enough Je

ppl tell me to not love my family, to not love their invasions, and u know what im just not gonna do that

why can't he just hate his family like a normal person

they wont let u in the illuminati i think

aw come ON I want the full three-ring circus!

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/20/first-republican-debate-is-limited-to-10-candidates/

lol limited to 10!

dem debates just gonna be hillary looking sternly at bernie and omalley while they all silently sip tea around an elegant yet understated centerpiece

http://i.imgur.com/0rT5Vdc.jpg

choice rubio detail in the middle of this wapo article (about rand paul's patriot act filabuster):

Late Wednesday night Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), two of his competitors for the GOP presidential nomination, showed up in the chamber. Cruz presided over the body and, when done, spoke on the floor, urging colleagues to support the USA Freedom Act. Rubio presided and appeared to be engrossed in a magazine.

just FYI, jeb bush has important thoughts on climate change

"For the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you"
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"I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted"

im no scientist but the percentages look extremely screwy imho

The important thing is we keep questioning whether scientists are lying and not whether it is cool companies can dump carbon into the air we all breathe with little financial disincentive.

And if Mother Nature is doing it, we're off the hook! Woo Hoo! Suck it, planet earth!

haha yr move natural ecosystem

x-post--Wonder what magazine Rubio was reading?

Juggs

teen people

holy shit @ this:

dem debates just gonna be hillary looking sternly at bernie and omalley while they all silently sip tea around an elegant yet understated centerpiece

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 5:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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― pplains, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 5:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol missed that