Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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

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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.

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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.

also that caller sounds kind of young to have been abused by Hastert in the 60's but maybe he's turned into some kind of man-child, like a Chuck and Buck thing.

Denny and Benny

I'll stop now.

still the rong thread

also does the extortionist get to keep the money in this case? i mean, obv they know who it was and that person hasn't been indicted.

all is president

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

I'm not sure who's more of a hopeless vacuum - Pataki or Chafee

workin the tuff grandma angle

― j., Friday, May 29, 2015 4:45 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smart

also that caller sounds kind of young to have been abused by Hastert in the 60's

― akm, Friday, May 29, 2015 4:52 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the implication is that it was an open secret

that what was an open secret? the abuse? the phone call? if it's an open secret then why pay hush money if people already know about it?

your paying hush money to the person who can testify against you, a rumor in yr old town isnt enough to get you in touble

i mean if this was a serial abuse situation i guarantee u the word got out or at least kids were suspicious

there was a drivers ed teacher from my school who ended up going to prison after teaching for 25 years and every single girl at school was like that guy is creepy and up to no good

it's sad that i didn't even think to wonder how a congressman ended up with 3.5 million to expend

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign.html?_r=0

O'Malley is officially in. Announcement speech seems a little rough around the edges, but he's got time I guess. Love how CNN is playing up his low poll numbers versus Clinton - - - uh oh, trouble ahead!!! - - he literally just announced his campaign! Like, minutes ago!

I'd be surprised if he's even doubled the number of people who know him vs. this time last year. He's got a long road.

omalleymentum is in full swing!

O'Mentum, surely

whoa lets not get carried away here

O'mallaria

I wonder if Carcetti has better name recognition at this point

what do you folks think of o'malley? is he a serious person? (i don't mean a serious candidate.)

Grahamtastic!

is America ready for a gay vice president?