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

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

from what i've noticed anecdotally any of the affection for trump in the orthodox jewish republican community comes entirely from identification w/ ivanka

he must realize it too "You just like me because my daughter happens to be Jewish," Trump said as he took the stage. He added that his daughter Ivanka has a great husband and is very happy, but "the only bad news is I can't get her on Saturday," referring to Shabbat, a Jewish day of rest.

is that the daughter he publicly speculated about schtupping

"get her"

i think she is gorgeous but i'm not her father

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgPvoMR-aZo

from that screengrab, i'm assuming the answer is "you, little boy"

from mouths of babes trumpjungen quex

he's a regular hadrian

that ppl are into him is even harder to understand than the whole "I'd have a beer with GWB" thing

well he is stupid, loudmouthed, rude and overpriveleged ie like most of America

which is not to say that most of America likes him - at this point I hope he gets the nom just so the GOP gets absolutely hosed in the election

he doesn't seem v convincing on the deep fascist charisma level but then i watch videos of hitler giving speeches and think he looks like a creepy balding dude. the crowd loves it tho. (not to say that trump is hitler but i haven't watched a lot of mussolini or franco speeches)

Mussolini is hilarious

stylistically he's def a closer fascist analog for Trump than Hitler

analogue even

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-KzYATY5apTg%2FUXuEm5wJdKI%2FAAAAAAAALbg%2Fre9FLJyJ3dI%2Fs1600%2FMussolini.gif&f=1

lol

at this point I hope he gets the nom just so the GOP gets absolutely hosed in the election

i've often had this thought too (it's still my default opinion at this point, i guess) but then i remember how wrong i and everyone else on earth have been about trump so far. everyone thought he would have imploded by now - everyone figured he'd implode after a couple weeks, even. everyone has been so wrong. and it's true, it seems like he'd do very poorly in a general election, but i can't deny any scenario given the involvement of my beloved fellow americans as voters. there could be a major terror event just before the election, or some sort of scandal erupts around clinton, some other october surprise...i dunno. just like europe, there's a considerable white supremacist voting bloc in the U.S., though most of them probably would recoil at that description of course. the thought of trump being in power in a time of crisis and uncertainty, paired with the bloodlust that enters around 90% of american's hearts in the wake of disaster (source: W's polls after 9/11) and the support of a ton of terrible bigots with guns, frightens me.

but who knows, maybe the crest of the trump wave is right now and a few months from now we'll all be laughing about it as the attention steers toward rubio or cruz.

there's a considerable white supremacist voting bloc in the U.S

not considerable enough to beat the non-white voting bloc -- if it votes in 2016.

yeah even in my darkest nightmares i think the us has enough useful architecture to keep it from sliding too deeply into psychotic fascism

i still plan on voting trump in the republican primary. either him or bobby jindal

we all thought people would have lost interest by now, yes - but that's just misreading the GOP primary voters. He does not have a prayer of winning a general election. It's worth noting that he's only winning a plurality, not a majority, of the GOP primary vote, and that he has consistently polled really negatively with the general electorate. Break down that electorate into "swing" states Trump would have to win (Ohio, Florida, etc.) and there's no way he would get them all. Party turnout on the GOP side would also be depressed just because of how many people hate him, which would contribute to losses across the board.

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it'd be interesting to see if any beurocrats would be in open revolt against trump, like Reagan vs epa style

I still don't think he'll get the nom, honestly. Party machinery is liable to throw a monkey wrench into him actually racking up delegates. Plus as soon as he loses anything, his mystique is punctured...

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