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

You mean besides John McCain?

he already called mccain a loser for getting captured in action, so...

lol xp

Future Trump rally:

"You're stupid. You're all a bunch of losers. Worthless, stupid trash."

(crowd goes wild)

so you're predicting a move from Lonesome Rhodes to Howard Beale

Michael B Dougherty ‏
Imagine a fascist Trump POTUS! USA might start unprovoked wars, keep a kill list, weaken Constitutional rights...

Future Trump rally:

"You're stupid. You're all a bunch of losers. Worthless, stupid trash."

(crowd goes wild)

― The Squirrel Who Punched His Dad In The Neck (Old Lunch),

his numbers went up in iowa after his 'how stupid are the ppl in iowa?' rant

Yeah but it's tough to tell if his numbers rose in response to that comment or his racism. Democracy!

my trump popularity theory is that ppl are cynical enough about politics that as they no longer think it matters who they vote for they might as well vote for someone entertaining; at least they can laugh while everything falls a part

The reality show/pro wrestling/entertainment thing is probably half, and then the other half are people that would have votes for Wallace

voted.

iPhone. Fuck

Aaaaaaannnnnnd, it's been 12 hours since the Planned Parenthood shootings and not one GOP candidate has released a statement about it. Hard for them to wash their hands and talk, I guess

They could hardly make the usual recommendation of arming all PP employees and patrons to the teeth. It would seem as if they were siding with the enemy.

seriously what the hell style sheet do you people use that post to ilx from your iphone. they all look like unreadable butt to me.

Zing app

It might have been released during your time away, but it is what pro ilx posters use when they're on the go

does it look different?? on OLDASS.CSS every post looks the same

I'm still on iPhone.css, which has the weird thing now where YouTube links no longer function

“He’s not a bought-and-paid for politician. He knows all the ins and outs of negotiating,” said Clearwater resident Bob Priest, standing in line near a live elephant painted with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. “He’s got some guts and he tells it like it is.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article46970250.html#storylink=cpy

A little disappointed, frankly...

http://i.imgur.com/70Y8DZB.jpg

poor elephant :(

by rights that pic should include the elephant taking a dump

So the media is being p stupid about his chances eh

They're doing all they can to report Trump's bombast and idiocy, which does at least put some sand in the gears and slow down the bandwagon effect.

there was a thing about how his numbers had dipped some after this whole 'mocking a disabled person's disability' thing but it was only to thirtysomething percent among republicans, previously it was in the mid-forties. that's like hillary territory. i think the media is probably swinging too hard the other way after treating him as an consequence free amusement for so long, they've gone from 'this guy isn't actually a candidate' to 'this guy is THE candidate'. plus when he doesn't when it won't be (or at least won't primarily be) for the narrative reasons the media pretends shape the race and instead will be for his inexperience and probably unwilllingness to do the on the ground politicking that wins races. ie how the legend is that the scream sank dean but in reality the dean campaign had already kinda imploded, the scream coming after his finishing crazy low in iowa after looking like he'd sown up the nomination a month or so prior. media hyping up christie getting the union-leader endorsement; who knows if that really means shit but i guess it's indicative that christie is doing the legwork there. if he somehow won new hampshire now i guess i'd know how it happened.

CC is ROLLIN' NOW

“Mr. Christie is right for these dangerous times,” Joseph W. McQuaid, the publisher, wrote in the endorsement editorial. “As a U.S. attorney and then a big-state governor, he is the one candidate who has the range and type of experience the nation desperately needs.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/chasing-endorsements-christie-showers-new-hampshire-with-calls-and-texts.html

DESPERATELY

@sahilkapur Nov 28
.@UnionLeader endorsements:

2016: Christie
2012: Newt
2008: McCain
2000: Steve Forbes
1996: Buchanan
1992: Buchanan
1988: Pierre du Pont

The flawed premise of the alternate earth suggested by that list is the assumption that humanity would have survived long enough to vote Christie into office.

ted cruz suffered a big loss this morning as the 13-year-old chairman for Teens for Ted who became internet famous for asking why Obama invited the "Muslim kid" to the White House remembered that he is a 13-year-old kid and gave up his position and conservatism

uh

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cj-pearson-renounces-conservatism

oh man, i haven't seen the name pierre dupont... probably since 1988.

"Quit callin' yourself 'Pete'...."

I hadn't even heard of him until I read Richard Ben Cramer's book.

any of the candidates have anything to say about this PP shooting over the weekend? Carly? Teddy?

Fiorina and Cruz said it was a shame libs still believe in ending the lives of babies when libs already dying for going to Planned Parenthood.

Ted Cruz called the shooter a "transgendered leftist activist" iirc

yeah that was seriously nauseating

haha waht

wait, seriously? Cruz seriously said that?

i guess some form somewhere with the dude's name on it had F instead of M, and about an hour later the r-w echochamber had ginned that up into "omg he was a trans activist!!" then duly repeated by cruz

i guess we know what ted's media diet is

Mine was bullshit.

Chuckles called it terrorism, I guess that's something:

“What he did is domestic terrorism,” Huckabee said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “And what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to us in the pro-life movement, because there’s nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way on something like this.”

I think when you let Huckabee get out ahead of you on the moral high ground, it's time to set your campaign headquarters on fire and retreat to the mountains to live off of the land.

david futrelle had a look at the echo chamber in action:

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/28/right-wingers-claim-colorado-shooter-robert-lewis-dear-is-a-trans-woman/

It's sad how far shit has to go before it crosses the line that makes (some of) these folks react like human beings.

Even so, I'm sure it's as much about distancing their own extremism from a more unpalatable extremism as it is about expressing true sympathy.

Is Huckabee the only republican candidate to condemn the attacks and/or call them terrorism so far?

*attack

Oh Huckabee had that shit on an index card in his back pocket. For him this is absolutely a pre-planned exercise, the calculated response to a scenario he and a few staff "what-if'd" years ago.

gotta give it to him for being the only GOP candidate to have his index card ready to go, though

I think when you let Huckabee get out ahead of you on the moral high ground, it's time to set your campaign headquarters on fire and retreat to the mountains to live off of the land.

― you're breaking the NAP (DJP), Monday, November 30, 2015 12:58 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

UPDATE NOV 30, 2015 8:14 AM
Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler clarified of the candidate's remarks, "He was making the point that there isn’t enough information. You can’t expect a full response to a story that’s developing. The point was there’s a lot of raw information going around that’s not confirmed.

The campaign also explained that Cruz received his information from "The Right Scoop," which similarly used the voter registration form to ask, "WAS THE COLORADO SHOOTER A TRANSGENDER PERSON?!?!"