Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

Here's what I'd predict:

Bush
Carson
Cruz
Fiorina
Kasich
Pataki
Paul
Perry
Rubio
Walker

Santorum, Jindal and Gilmore the final ones I removed. I just have to assume Ricky Bobby will bow out before Thanksgiving, and Gilmore? I guess every season needs its Mike Gravel, but I dunno.

I can't even begin to rank 'em. Also can't believe Santorum's taking another shot (spurt?) at it. What a putz.

If Pataki runs, I will miss Letterman's Jerry Lewis-styled pronunciation of his name

have the top ten debate then the other eight are the moderators

i'm gonna guess

Bush
Carson
Christietaking a longshot bet that maybe he'll just be in prison by the time the debates start?
Cruz
Ehrlich
Fiorina
Gilmore
Graham why is he running for president again? doesn't everyone hate him?
Huckabee
Jindal i can't believe that anyone could take this man seriously anymore, although that same criticism could be applied to many others on the list
Kasich
Pataki
Paul
Perry
Rubio
Santorum
Trump although it would be hilarious
Walker

don't really know much about kasich or his chances tbh

republicans are hilarious. I can't even think of an electable republican at this point.

Think harder. Reagan and both Bushes were "hilarious" too.

They need to have semifinals, like Eurovision.

tag teams are the only solution obviously

Vote off one per week, like American Idol. Who will get the judges' save?

I could've sworn this was his third (or fourth even!)
http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Rick-Santorum-faces-steep-climb-in-second-White-6288313.php

same. i thought he ran in 2008?

hmm, guess not. weird.

Wiki: Before the 2006 election, Santorum was frequently mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate.

I do recall seeing him on Sunday talk shows back then.

Graham why is he running for president again? doesn't everyone hate him?

maybe he wants to be outed in spectacular fashion

has Lady Lindsay announced? I can't keep track

ladies and gents, the governor of my state:

http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-scott-walker-mandatory-ultrasounds-aren-t-crazy-they-re-cool/20868/41

sorry, bad link

better one:

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/27/410005631/scott-walker-says-ultrasounds-are-just-a-cool-thing

That low rumble you're sensing is evidence of ultrasound's inventor rotating at speed in his grave.

this won't hurt him at all but still lol

actually the GOP knows what it's doing. It's the Reasonable Option. "What's wrong with an ultrasound? It's painless!"

"And COOL!"

PAM is even cooker than ultrasound!

mandatory PAM on all tumorous rat backs!

Having Sanders-"realism" firefights with Rodhambots on a famous gay messageboard, and they are calling me WAY worse things than you ppl ever have.

interesting observation re sanders world view http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8671135/bernie-sanders-race

Perry
Rubio
Santorum
Trump although it would be hilarious
Walker

don't really know much about kasich or his chances tbh

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:01 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't perry this close away from a club fed prison cell himself?

have a hard time believing any Hillary supporters feel genuinely threatened by Sanders, what's that all about

they are threatened by anyone dissing the inevitability of their monarch

its possible morbs cld be mischaracterizing the views and motivations of his tormentors

unnecessary

(they're dumb fairies)

this kind of thing doesn't bother teh gays? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/hillary-clintons-gay-marriage-problem/372717/

I mean it's pretty much beside the point now given that the law is getting pretty settled, but it's emblematic of her lack of principles (and foresight)

xp

tbh i feel like anyone who can support HRC after her unapologetic vote for the iraq war can probably find it in their hearts to justify anything she does

that column contains the sentence "Andrew Sullivan's perspective is instructive."

haha yes I rolled my eyes at that too

and JD otm I will never forgive her for that

I will never forgive her for marrying W.J. Clinton.

but he was so charming

I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter

But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you voted for the Iraq War

their answer to that is usually "but Ted Cruz"

well yeah

who will y'know never be president, ever, even after 8 years of Bernie Sanders.

after 8 years of bernie sanders memes

DON: A lot of us struggled during that period. You're talking about the worst terrorist attack on American soil. Some of us wanted revenge. I've had to deal with that kind of anger most of my life. It was difficult to find one's moral barings.

GLENN: *blasts Better in the USA*

DON: Well, yeah.

please spare me Don's moral barings

his immoral ones too, for that matter

the bearings of don, a lost mad men episode

interesting observation re sanders world view http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8671135/bernie-sanders-race

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:05 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk; is there any poll data to back up the claim that non-white voters are uninterested in sanders?

is it even that interesting? Sanders has always presented himself as old-school American democratic socialist. Viewing class issues as the prime mover is kind of necessary for that ideology and it's not like the piece can even point to him being hostile to "cultural issues" or backwards on race or something, it's just that he views them through the lens of Marxist analysis.

"In liberal circles, it now seems impossible to have cared deeply about human rights, to have cared about gay rights, and to have objected to gay marriage, even though that was the exact position of almost all liberals very recently."

I call bullshit. About 25% of Americans self-describe as liberal and 40% of Americans supported gay marriage a decade ago. Not enough libertarians to make this add up.