Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

somehow scrambled that into ''lupe feeb fiasco'' and was really hoping that was the name of some also-ran punk band or sth

wow the pauls are just huge liars

from the CJR: http://www.cjr.org/analysis/bernie_sanders_underdog.php

That "Set It On Fire" is some awesome clenched fist, clenched teeth, clenched asshole demagoguery.

wow the pauls are just huge liars

― Mordy, Thursday, May 28, 2015 3:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its a quality body of work.. also impressive how the media pays absolutely no attention to the disconnect.

more wisdom from JE!

"The president is more than just a head of parliament; he’s also the symbol of our country in many ways," he added later.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/27/with-gop-field-growing-jeb-bush-sharpens-critique-of-would-be-opponents/

Bush said he welcomed the opportunity to explain his views on both subjects "because I find it interesting that people who share that view -- rather than stick with the view and try to persuade people about it -- in many cases have actually abandoned their views."

that is a w-level failed sentence, good luck out there j.e.

he's supposed to be the smart one

the smart one, ladies and gents

family no talk good

His father sounds like Samuel Johnson by comparison

imagine the totally incoherent arguments Dubya and JE must have had

'wow that's smart, you're smart!' 'thanks, so are you!' 'we totally deserve to be presidents, both of us!' 'sure do!'

http://i.imgur.com/A9cQYPy.jpg

well looks like Hastert's jail-bound:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Ex-US-Speaker-Hastert-indicted-on-bank-related-6292720.php

:)

http://i.imgur.com/A9cQYPy.jpg
JEB: I have a green belt ... read it and weep
Dubya: I don't believe in belts

Jeb: I farted
W: I know

hastert sexual abuse while he was high school wrestling coach holy shit

Has Hillary announced her candidacy yet? Rumors are flying.

p sure Hastert was not running for prez THIS time

everything is the president

pauls pere et fils kind of complicate that graph about how conservative the various GOP folks are.

btw is bernie sanders actually a marxist? i'm sure he fucks w/ marx or marxian concepts a lot more than most (all?) national politicians, but there's a strong current of democratic socialism (even or especially in the USA) that isn't explicitly marxist. after all socialism itself predates marx.

the news about hastert made me so happy. what a fucker he is.

no, of course he's not a marxist

from what I've read of his positions he would not have shocked a young lib in the Roosevelt administration.

Teddy Roosevelt's administration eiher

xpost

right.

some article and posts upthread referred to him as a marxist, and that didn't seem right to me.

i wonder if hilary will red-bait or if that just seems like an old battle that was fought and won. i'm glad sanders will be in the debates. i'll vote for him too, if he sticks around.

sanders is a social democrat ie a liberal

does he no longer call himself a "socialist"? i believe he did at one pt.

he does but he was never referring to the anti-capitalist seize the means of production kind of socialism ie socialism

hes basically on old school liberal or a nordic model socailist

it is the best kind of government but ppls insistance on calling it socialism is odd

also: the direct democracy of northeastern hamlets and burghs.

i think one reason sanders might not emphasize race as much as some others is because he's from... vermont.

mightve been mentioned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont#Race_and_gender

manic nordic model dream socailist

lol

dunno how Sanders is gonna stand up to the charismatic dynamo that is Lincoln Chafee

Lincoln Chafee definitely has a better name

idk it kind of... chafes

whoa, hastert thing gets worse and worse

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/us/politics/hastert-indictment.html

J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, was paying a man to not say publicly that Mr. Hastert had sexually abused him decades ago, according to two people briefed on the evidence uncovered in an F.B.I. investigation into the payments.

wrong thread

of course, for all we know, it could be a simple act of extortion, but if so hastert handled it in the skeeviest way possible.

?

oh oops

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/604384185336246272

workin the tuff grandma angle

George Pataki sure must be pissed that Hastert rained on his parade today

I'm constantly amazed at the kind of memory people have for this kind of weird shit:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/243418-dennis-hastert's-weird-2014-CSPAN-call

I wouldn't have thought twice about that call; and it might wind up being unrelated; but that it even stuck in someone's head long enough for cspan to have created a page for it and for people to bring it up now is ... i don't know how much time people have to obsess on this kind of ephemera.