Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

it's not as though i'm ascribing them in ignorance!

i've never met anyone who has such scorn for pretty much any political view or even taste profile that is not completely his own (indeed it often seems you will shift your position so as not to achieve any congruence); on the basis on your posts here you seem absolutely consumed by a narcissism of small differences (which you no doubt would characterize as a gaping chasm).

i can't pretend to understand your deeper motives but just based on what i read here i imagine you must find casting smug disdain upon others' opinions rewarding on some level (perhaps only in the short term), because you do it over and over and over etc. again.

i can't think of any other poster on ILX--since i started "contributing," so to speak, in 2002--whose "persona" is so devoted to, and nearly completely identified with, casting scorn on others and greeting every earnest contribution with absolute cynicism.

and i'm guilty of the same thing! but, i hope, not to the same persistent degree, and not to the exclusion of other things.

i mean there's no doubt that from a certain point of view, the world is a hopeless and deeply fucked place, as is american politics at most levels, in many places. but you'd think those facts would lend you a bit of empathy rather than the presumption that you're the last honest man.

this is not worth arguing about for the millionth time guys

there are still LAFFS to be had!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bushs-recipe-for-a-better-society-shame/2015/06/10/9c28ecd4-0f92-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html

the gop '16 field has decided to adopt a platform of slut shaming and man-splaining

a cavalcade of failures: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n12/chris-lehmann/the-candidates

yeah, you're right. sorry all.

oh man, that LRB piece is great, although frankly they are too kind to scott walker.

for example it fails to mention how many people working for walker (as both governor and in his previous role as milwaukee county executive) have been indicted/convicted of various abuses of their positions.

otoh it has hipped me to the wonderful descriptor "lying crapweasel"

the jeb bush parts are big lols @ the concept of board of directors

bush is floundering i guess http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-jeb-bushs-campaign-ran-off-course-before-it-even-began/2015/06/10/386331e6-0eb6-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html

fuckthread byethread

let me know when the "big guy" has a coronary

see you in 24 hours!

it's not as though i'm ascribing them in ignorance!

i was addressing Soto, you stool.

The thing I find mystifying about these chucklefuck campaigns is they are like 100% of the time dominated by infighting in the inner circle of managers, confidantes, and cousins on payroll. Maybe it's all this campaigning starting a year and a half out from the election keeping people from actually preparing.

Fighting over crumbs from oligarchs ennit

really really wish i liked hillary more

a lot of my issues aren’t from left or right

but like clinton foundation; email thing; etc :/

well, all politicians are slime i guess

& oughtn't let perfect be enemy of the good (but)

not all politicians are slime

but i agree w/ last statement, although to rephrase "don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"

"don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"

yes i think this is more accurate

Robert Costa ‏@costareports 1m1 minute ago
Why did Bush tap Diaz? Friends say they grew chummy on road, both intense night owls and non-stop e-mailers

e-mailing!

worst slash fiction ever

not all politicians are slime

Yeah, sorry, gonna need names.

there's Pat Carver of Rexburg, Idaho, recently elected to the city council. she hasn't started her term yet but people say that she appears to have her heart in the right place, she's a good listener, has a few interesting ideas regarding municipal infrastructure that she would like to bring up early in her -- oh wait, this just in she's been served charges for embezzlement and aggravated assault. so yeah they're all slime

this guy represents my district and i like him a lot

Pelosi's as good as they come imo. Feingold, Mikulski, hell Sanders too - I'll stan for them.

emailer emailer mail me an eel

wow cant believe u guys like politicians those clowns down in dc what clowns

'politicians suck': probably the lowest level of political engagement possible

just a buncha clowns dont know what the heck theyre doin down there fn clowns unbelievable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3W1BiUjp0

The headline on bloomberg right now is "Walker: I like Marco Rubio a lot"

Then they showed a clip of walker saying that, and he speculated about the possibility of a walker/Rubio ticket, saying they'd have to arm wrestle to determine who would be on the top of the ticket.

So there you go, it's settled on the GOP side.

it's odd how Walker's currently in front of a bunch of polls, and yet I see almost zero news pieces on him

you should move to wisconsin, you'll have more than your fill

I read a Walker horror story every day, most recently regarding Wisconsin university system. But Scarbra and "Mika" don't consider it news.

feel free to post some - if it's not on WaPo/NYT/SF Chronicle I generally don't see it

This one is delicious.

The Koch brothers signaled furiously that Walker is their preferred guy, but they aren't loading him up with cash this early. Too much chance of Walker failing and their possibly alienating the affections of whoever succeeds.

so what would potentially sink Walker - corruption charges?

Voters getting to know him

A speaking style that increasingly grates the more you hear it.

Voters getting to know him

idk he seems to be doing okay in the state he governs

aka The Cheesehead State

Mark Kirk said Lindsay graham is "a bro with no ho"

I have no idea how that happened, I'm getting all my news from a scrolling text bar on bloomberg tv in a waiting room

just a no ho bro, no homo

I mean

Sen. Mark Kirk regrets calling Lindsey Graham a 'bro with no ho'

lol