Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

running for /president/, i mean. but i'm sure plenty such folks will be running for congress soon enough.

all this against a background of impending civilizational collapse.

come to California! (bring water)

nah, i think i'll move to the upper peninsula and join a militia

(j/k FBI!)

yeah, he's moving to central PA

i think i'll move to the upper peninsula and join a militia

wait, I thought you were opposed to know-nothing ignorant fascists

are politicians uniquely awful people, or are most people like this and it just doesn't become a matter of public curiosity?

― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, June 5, 2015 1:39 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like the truth lies somewhere in between

the truth is most people are uniquely awful

a lot of ppl are awful in the same way tho

it's a rich tapestry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mL93A6Vj8

nobody announcing today? feels weird

I am, I'm running. Not old enough but fuck it, I plan on breaking a few laws when I'm elected anyway

we got a souped up jitneyperry

bison will grant tim duncan a medal of freedom, cant really oppose that tbh

http://i57.tinypic.com/os4ly1.png

is anybody remotely surprised by Hillary pandering to the base during a primary season

As well she should.

it's the correct strategy, even if people like me are not remotely convinced

remotely

remotely

via remote

Mordy wants us all to be impressed by Hil not saying "psst, i'm with the bankers" i guess

psst morbz my byline isn't on that article

i noticed, so yr point is...?

i have no desire to impress you or anyone w/ hillary's positioning

surprised that digby wrote that! on her own blog, she notes that

I don't write those headlines and I would argue that contrary to what this one says, my piece doesn't make a case that progressives should "believe." I simply point out that her history shows that many people once saw her as a liberal feminist, now she's perceived as a centrist and her record shows that --- it's complicated. But what the piece is really about is her strategy, which would have once been considered somewhat dangerous for a serious presidential candidate. It says something about the political terrain and the lessons learned over the past few years that she is choosing a pretty liberal domestic agenda.

Ted Cruz makes a funny:

Let me start by saying if I’m elected, January 2017, I suppose the first thing I should do is send flowers and a note of condolences to all of the reporters and editors who’ve checked themselves into therapy.

followed by canceling any treasonous agreement with Iran that our treasonous traitor president might have agreed to, treasonously, i hope

people have short memories re. HRC, i guess.

Does Cruz intend to put those flowers on the public dime or pay for them out of pocket? He needs to declare his intentions there.

I'm not gonna even link the Sunday NYT piece on HilRod's campaign, but apparently they've decided to focus on "the base" in the general election too, the Obama way, rather than try to flip red states a la Bubba. "Centrist" strategists are in a tizzy.

Imagine the horror of ignoring Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp.

when it comes down to it i think a lot of the giggling about this guy's sexuality is p nasty but

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/608304064980480000

man alive is he a fuckin weirdo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHEhUscUkAAXuW-.jpg

"i'm all about droning hajjis and that pee you double-ess why! come get some!"

oh lindsey

Like on a rotisserie?

https://youtu.be/M8nE8PJmONI

(yes, that youtube is 1:03:35)

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-classic-clintonian-fashion-dems-insult-their-own-voters-20150609

Taibbi neatly summarizes the NYT piece for "everyday" Dems

whenever graham says stuff like that, he just seems like mr. smithers protesting too much.

"get in line, ladies!"

Im hoping its a rotating cast of drag queens performing as first ladies of yore

lmao http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/voter-shows-santorum-campaign-stop-article-1.2252356

I am praying that Rick Santorum catches fire. You can take that any way you like.

"Toft isn’t sure she’ll vote for Santorum because she has to get all of the facts first, she said to Politico."

on the hunt for facts

there's some over there

man, i would love to show up at a santorum campaign stop and just have 60 minutes to shoot the breeze with ol' rick. i have a lot of questions for him...