Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

meanwhile our masters prepare to resist Trumpetry with everything they've got:

The Republican Party is preparing Senate candidates for the very real possibility that Donald Trump could be the party's presidential nominee.

According to a seven-page memo obtained by the Washington Post, National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Ward Baker is encouraging Senate candidates to understand Trumpmentum, use it to their advantage, and then ignore Trump's most bombastic positions.

"We should prepare for 2016 by understanding the environment and recognizing the Trump phenomenon, " the memo reads.

The memo, which is titled "Observations of Donald Trump and 2016" continues, "We may not like it, but Trump has connected with voters on issues like trade with China and America's broken borders."

“Trump has risen because voters see him as authentic, independent, direct, firm, — and believe he can’t be bought,” Baker's September letter says, according to the Washington Post. “These are the same character traits our candidates should be advancing in 2016. That’s Trump lesson #1.”

In that memo, Baker warns candidates they should run their own race and not "engage in permanent cleanup or distancing maneuvers" for Trump. Specifically on Trump's position toward women, Baker warns "Houston we have a problem." He asks candidates to offer a "quick condemnation" and then move on.

But there is still a thing or two they can learn from the current GOP frontrunner.

"Understand the populist points Trump makes and ride that wave," Baker writes.

Hee hee, this is a Bloom County strip made real

reminds of the governor's son in oh brother: "we need some of that re-form!"

embracing nihilism - GOP 2016

http://www.morethings.com/fan/o_brother_where_art_thou/o_brother_pardoned-126.jpg

Best part of Cruz video is where he says mom prays for him for hours a day and she's all "now let's not get carried away, Ted"

everyone otm about Real World. modern politics makes as much sense, possibly less, than the beloved 90s mtv reality show.

all is "How is he still being taken seriously talk" is thumb-twiddling time filler. He has been in movies and on TV for decades now, which alone qualifies him to be taken as some kind of uber-being by most Americans.

Indeed. His celebrity survived even thru that time his brain was transplanted into a cat.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/ted-cruz-at-princeton-creepy-sometimes-well-liked-and-exactly-the-same.html

“He's not someone who shifts in the wind,” Panton says. “The Ted Cruz that I knew at 17 years old is exactly the same as the Ted Cruz I know at 42 years old. He was very conservative then, and an outspoken conservative. He remains strongly conservative today."

This man stopping growing up at age 17.

This is the real profile: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/the-absolutist-2

Unlike what others may say, I consider Ted to be very kind.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVT0uWxXAAA8Sdd.jpg

Nippled America?

lol at this graphic accompanying one of those stupid "Who should i vote for?" quizzes on WashPo:

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

(open in different tab for full size)

who is that guy with the goatee and the glasses, 6th from the left, standing next to cool guy Rand Paul?

wait is that supposed to be carson?!

which of these unrecognizable blobs should I vote for?

Reservoir candidates

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/4ctv9pxKpwjTFevWQbvaqXkXbPF.jpg

christie looks like he's about to tumble down the stairs on his way out of a dinner party

i caan driiive, ahm good

You may wish to vote for: 80s Trump.

Hilary seems appropriately smug.

(I should definitely care less about this but): Who's that supposed to be to the left of Fiorina?

no idea. 4 of them look like huckabee on the cusp of discovering a natural gas leak to me

Lol @ Pataki and Kasich as mirror images including skeletal hand.

has anyone compared Cruz to Nixon yet?

unlikable, socially awkward, a demagogue eager to exploit resentments to score points, collector of chits, riddled with phlebitis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVTVybKUYAASeeY.jpg

cruz seems like nixon

McCarthy is the first connection that comes to mind, although of course Nixon isn't so far removed

And Mister Rogers.

this idiot wasn't even born in america

I hate that I care about this, but it's bugging me.

1. Sanders
2. Clinton
3. O’Malley?
4. Rubio
5. Paul
6. Carson
7. Trump
8. Jeb?
9. Graham
10. Cruz?
11. Pataki?
12. ?
13. Fiorina
14. Kasich
15. Santorum?
16. Christie
17. Huckabee

you're right on all the question marked ones, i think. maybe 12 is gilmore?

Yeah, that makes sense - I was checking against Real Clear Politics' list, and thinking that it would have to be Jindal, because him dropping out is what took it from 14 to 13, but Gilmore is the 14th in the race! He just doesn't appear on RCP because he never polls >.5%.

Gilmore! Thanks. I couldn't think of a chubster apart from the obvious chubbos.

I also wondered about when it was created and whether there'd be ex-candidates in the lineup. Blue-Tie #3 looks nothing like O'Malley, but even less like Webb. Both are stocky little apple-shaped guys, not slender willows.

Lol the last two sentences on the 'Jim Gilmore presidential campaign, 2016' wiki page:

"Gilmore has insisted that he's "not going anywhere," and will continue to run.

On October 30th, 2015, Jim Gilmore was verified on Twitter."

he's just waiting for the ol' GilmoMentum to kick in

http://www.fanpop.com/images/polls/29428_1_full.jpg

I'm sad that Lincoln Chafee dropped out before that graphic was ordered

will anyone ask the GOP candidates about this I wonder:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/03/reagan-bush-41-memos-reveal-how-republicans-used-to-think-about-climate-change-and-the-environment/

who is that guy with the goatee and the glasses, 6th from the left, standing next to cool guy Rand Paul?

the Penn Gilette of 1990?

btw Trump says his medical records will show "perfection"

well dammit now we have to vote for him

at least he will make a great organ donor

Trump's essence is pure. Why have the other candidates refused to give sample? What are they hiding?

lol @ Gil. i hope he sees himself playing a tortoise and hare game. these other guys, they'll tucker themselves out, and then at the end, it'll be trump and ol' gil!

My prostate cancer is terrific. Just the best. You've never seen cancer like it.

"It's insane, this guy's taint."

http://www.ericvonhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/taint.png

clinton's dark money:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/12/03/behind-the-clinton-campaign-dark-money-allies/

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/03/458329895/trump-to-jewish-republicans-im-a-negotiator-like-you-folks