I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

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http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/24/ill-take-hillary-clinton-over-donald-trump/

how many of these "sincere conservatives" are left in america? are they an actual, sizable voting bloc that could stop trump if the field narrowed to two?

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link

they seem so retro

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link

alex p. keaton

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link

i know this thread moves fast but come on

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link

hahaha barely an hour before that link was reposted

its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link

wtf @ this, from a time.com post:

If Robby Mook manages Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, former journalist David Brock rules the external Clinton machine. ...

All the pushback on misleading news reports that Bernie Sanders won the Latino vote (he didn’t) in Nevada, trackers following Sanders catching his every gaffe like when he yelled “English, only!” into a mic at a Nevada event or pushing polling showing Clinton winning amongst African Americans in South Carolina—those all come from from Brock.

http://time.com/4214020/david-brock-correct-record-media-matters-hillary-clinton/

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link

the author just tweeted they are working on a correction (how long does it take jeez)

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link

never forget that this was a man who wrote a book called Blinded by the Right.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link

It's good that our media is relying more and more on the "Telephone Game" model of information dissemination.

its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link

jesus christ

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link

the author of that paragraph is jay newton-small but yeah brock is a piece of work.

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link

do you think that was an intentional lie or a mistake

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link

it's hard to imagine that anyone could be following this campaign at all and think that sanders would say something like that. and even if they thought they had heard he did, printing it without checking up on it.

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link

Hitchens on Brock's book: "I wanted to take an extra shower after trudging through this dismally written, pick-nose, spiteful and furtive little book. It glitters with malice and the more cowardly kind of "disclosure"; it’s a dank, filthy tissue turned inside out."

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

I can't believe how much that guy twisted the story of Sanders beating up a roomful of immigrants while screaming "ENGLISH ONLY!"

maybe my clam is just more toxic (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

the paragraph kind of reads like a list of three "misleading news reports" but it's not clear, probably a mistake (most things are stupidity rather than malice)

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

A. Certainly going back to 2008 during the primary Secretary Clinton was subjected to various forms of sexism overt, subtle that were detrimental. Fortunately Senator Obama was not subjected to something similar; the culture seemed to tolerate sexism and not racism.

crüt, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link

lol

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link

I would probably take the Fiorina insult over the Carson but either way we can agree that this young man shows promise as he ventures into the longer form.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link

they missed the one where he insulted charles krauthamer for being disabled, that was a sharp one

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link

i'm guessing nobody copy-edited this post since it is full of run-on sentences

crüt, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

yeah, the sentence in question was even sort of hard to follow

Treeship, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

I laughed hardest at the Perry insult. And speaking of which, how does "Vote Perry - The Charges Were Dropped!" grab you as a campaign slogan?

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link

Charles Krauthammer: “should be fired”
Bill Kristol: “a sad case”, “always wrong”

stopped clock etc.

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link

@dick_nixon
It was a goal of mine 40 years ago, along with Gov. Connally, to perhaps start a third party. You can now understand why.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link

erick erickson is mad, sweating and nude

http://theresurgent.com/rick-perry-for-president/

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link

this is a perrin sock Twitter account right xp

Mordy, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link

xps how did he miss a Jeb! insult? too many to count?

flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link

also WWEism makes politics just a little bit gayer

Yeah, much like many other aspects, it would just foreground such previously obscured subtext

Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link

no Mordakins, but since you're receptive,

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/701533590027276288

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link

"Cruz certainly has an odd face – it looks like someone sewed pieces of a waterlogged Reagan mask together at gunpoint"

keep being you, matt

second favorite description of cruz's smug mug, from this satire ~

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/02/bernie-sanders-is-the-worst-presidential-candidate.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link

"the religious zealot who looks like a shitty caricature of Bela Lugosi drawn on a deflated leather sack"

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link

He looks like a bust of Alfred A. Neuman that someone made out of extra-wet balogna and dropped off a bridge.

Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link

it's funny how cruz is still beating rubio in national polls but over the last week or so everyone kinda just accepted to freeze him out as a non-candidate

iatee, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link

^URLs read in the voice of Frankenstein's monster

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link

We have to win.

Okay, I'm following your argument so far...

Rubio would likely win.

... Nope, lost me.

its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link

Well he has to say that.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link

I mean there is no article if at the end of the day they're going to lose whomever is nominated.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link

Then he'd have to get a real job.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link

@AP
BREAKING: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid endorses Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

@ggreenwald
I hope this will put an end to people unfairly claiming she's the Establishment Candidate.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link

xp: Oh I know, I'm just saying that as an outsider, recognizing full well that I am not the target audience, I would think these people were much less crazy if their rhetoric was framed as "Rubio represents our best chance to win" rather than "Rubio is likely to win" given that Rubio is, well... Rubio.

its subtle brume (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link

That NRO post reads like an essay from a high school junior.

WilliamC, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link

afaik cruz still has not been endorsed by a single one of his colleagues in the Senate. he's being frozen out for the simple reason that everyone hates him. to god be the glory.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link

yeah everyone hates him but everyone hated him a month ago too. even the media isn't giving him benefit of the doubt anymore, it's just like, objectively everyone hates him, he's not gonna win, get out of here dude.

iatee, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link

ha yeah the chatter all takes it for granted that the "establishment" will never except Cruz, and he can't beat Trump, ergo his campaign is dead

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

he also killed a lot of people in northern california in the late 60s and early 70s

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link

via Greenwald, a Trump-hatin' conservative warns the Dems that he could beat them

At this point it’s possible that Trump will secure the Republican nomination in three weeks. After Florida and Ohio vote, Trump will turn his attention to the general election. He’ll be free to hone his message and adapt to the new environment. His most likely opponent, however, may still be embroiled in a contested primary. Fueled by small dollar contributions, Bernie Sanders is unlikely to leave the Democratic race any time soon. So Hillary will be running against both Bernie and Trump. And Trump will have time to figure out which lines against her work and which do not. He will use his earned media to define Clinton as weak on immigration, trade, foreign policy, and fitness for office. If past is prologue, Trump’s attacks will be loud, nasty, over the top. And they’ll work.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/7-reasons-democrats-should-be-terrified-of-donald-trump/

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link

meh

marcos, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link

If Trump were to win I might have to give up the internet in the interest of my mental health.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 19:36 (eight years ago) link


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