Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

@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

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

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

lol missed that

Steve Schale, the Florida strategist who wrote the “Marco Rubio scares me” blog post, said that when he worked for the Democratic leader of the Florida House of Representatives, his boss, Dan Gelber, had a saying about Mr. Rubio’s effect on crowds, and about his sincerity: “Young women swoon, old women pass out, and toilets flush themselves.”

strange plumbing problems in Florida

as the sea levels rise you'll see stranger shit yet

“Young women swoon, old women pass out, and the toilet flushes you.”

Sounds like a real Jim Morrison.

I'd love the quote if it weren't the offhand sexism

more on scary Rubio

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/us/politics/prospect-of-hillary-clinton-marco-rubio-matchup-unnerves-democrats.html

if she lost that matchup i would laugh and laugh and laugh

yeah the quote is from that story

Patti Solis Doyle, who ran Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign for most of the 2008 contest, said Mr. Rubio “could have the ability to nip away at the numbers for the Democrats.”

Ms. Doyle, the first Hispanic woman to manage a presidential campaign, added that Mr. Rubio could allow Republicans to regain a “reasonable percentage” of the Hispanic vote, which hit a low of 27 percent in the 2012 presidential election.

“He is a powerful speaker,” she added. “He is young. He is very motivational. He has a powerful story.”

Yet another reminder of the stupidity of Democrats. Rubio is not a powerful speaker, is not motivational, and doesn't have a powerful story. He has the intelligence of a salt shaker and the charisma of a corduroy jacket.

He is young, I'll concede.

and so begins the trial testing of unsatisfying gop candidates via planted news story, next week hillary is afraid of... rand paul?

she should be "afraid" of anyone of course, because she is a transparent fucking phony. So, tied.

those quotes really have nothing to do w the stupidity of democrats she was just giving the reporter the quote they wanted to hear, m/l the equivalent of yeah sure whatever you say

don't scare grandma!

the republicans are tbf much more interested in the rubio as latino whisperer line, doubt too many professional democrats buy it

He is young. He is very motivational. He has a powerful story.”

Each time I read a quote to that effect from a GOP operative, I sense an invisible "...just like Barack Obama." at the end. I think a huge number of Republicans still think to this day that Obama was elected twice because, gosh, he's just got this fabulous gift of gab.

he really knows how to "rap" with "the people"

he has a natural grasp of the rhythms of human interaction

personally i just liked the dirt of your shoulder thing

haha what would the equivalent for Rubio be... quoting Pitbull or something?

lest we forget, republicans have always have a natural ability to "rap" with "the people"

http://www.bumpershine.com/wp-images/posts/mccain_daddy3.jpg

Each time I read a quote to that effect from a GOP operative, I sense an invisible "...just like Barack Obama." at the end. I think a huge number of Republicans still think to this day that Obama was elected twice because, gosh, he's just got this fabulous gift of gab.

― pplains, Friday, May 22, 2015 4:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly

Huckabee seems to have stepped in it good. He either remains steadfast in his support of a serial child molester or he rescinds his support and alienates himself from the braindead evangelical base he's accumulated. Good goin'!

haha waht is this about the Duggar thing

lol of course

(although that article's pretty shitty - Huck's not being inconsistent with who he forgives, i.e. contrite self-professed evangelical Christians)

tbrr the problem with the Duggar family isn't just the molestation, it's that they acted just like the Catholic Church: denied it, hid it, enabled it, failed to notify authorities or obtain appropriate counseling etc. oh but yeah they did the most important thing in Fuckabee's eyes, they "prayed on it"

It's coming out now that Oprah's producers are the ones who originally brought this story to the attention of the local police back in 2006 after someone alerted them to the molestation and they promptly canceled the Duggar family interview. Wish Oprah had used the full extent of her power to crush the Duggars into powder back then, but telling the police is good enough I suppose.

the Duggar family claim that they had addressed this all appropriately when it happened looks like total horseshit. not surprised Chuckabee would sign off on it, probably feels its similar to what he went through with his puppy murdering progeny

not that huckabee had any shot at either the nomination, let alone the actual office of President, but surely his support of this douche kills his political aspirations dead

political aspirations do not die so easily. Nixon came back from the dead several times.