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

Kasich: probably a country show--you see him groping around for the most helpful answer--but says he's more a Linkin Park kind of guy.

lol

Bush: James Brown ("say it loud, I'm black and proud"

Imagining Jeb! in a blue oxford, khakis, and wingtips doing a chapelle-as-white-person dance

https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/611257485995995136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/katieglueck/status/611259934337040384

https://twitter.com/johnkasich/status/412006851350261760

"well I like Linkin Park and I'm not talking about Chicago,"

I'd like to think Kasich was still talking about two bands there.

New CBS/YouGov Iowa poll: HRC 50-Sanders 45 (margin of error 8.3)

pplains OTM

David Atkins:

In this context, it made sense for Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to suspend the Sanders campaign’s access to the data until it could determine the extent of the damage, and the degree to which the Clinton campaign’s private data had been compromised. As it turns out the ethical breach by Sanders operatives was massive, but the actual data discovery was limited. So it made sense and was fairly obvious that the DNC would quickly end up giving the campaign back its NGPVAN access—particularly since failing to do so would be a death sentence for the campaign and a gigantic black eye to the party.

This doesn’t mean that Wasserman-Schultz hasn’t, in David Axelrod’s words, been putting her thumb on the scale on behalf of the Clinton campaign. She clearly has been, judging from the intentionally obfuscated debate schedule and from her demeanor and reaction to this recent controversy. The Democratic Party would have been wiser to bring the campaigns together privately and resolve the matter internally. Instead, Wasserman-Schultz chose to take it public to attempt to embarrass the Sanders campaign, and merely managed to embarrass herself and the Party’s data security vulnerabilities in the process.

Still, the Sanders camp’s reactions have been laughable. It was their team that unethically breached Clinton’s data. It was their comms people who spoke falsely about what happened. The Sanders campaign wasn’t honeypotted into doing it—their people did it of their own accord. NGPVAN isn’t set up to benefit Clinton at Sanders’ expense—and if the violation by the campaigns had been reversed, Sanders supporters would have been claiming a conspiracy from sunrise to sundown. What’s very clear is that the Clinton camp did nothing wrong in any of this. Sanders campaign operatives did, and then Wasserman-Schultz compounded it by overreacting. And in the end, the right thing ended up happening: the lead staffer in question was fired, and the campaign got its data access back.

^ he asserts a 'massive ethical breach' but fails to mention what those words correspond to in terms of real life actions.

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Man, how many levels of this game do you have to rank up before you unlock the O'Malley character?

http://i.imgur.com/TMOybCZ.png

haha yeah I bet Clinton never even heard of Star Wars. unlike us cool kids who are very ahead the curve, being into Star Wars. what a square she is, invoking the thing that we only we cutting edge people know about

guess her Force powers allowed her to somehow know that ISIL is using Trump in recruitment videos

rip lindsey

Lindsay Gram seems like a nice man, personally.

Graham.

On a personal level, he seems nice.

Fuck what he votes for.

Cruz and Trump

Mr. Cruz has in recent days seemed to more closely resemble the man he has been chasing — or, more precisely, quietly drafting behind — for months. … Perhaps most notably, Mr. Cruz has sharpened his already uncompromising language, eager to retain his own hold on popular anger against the political class, and to demonstrate conservative purity amid attacks from Rubio over immigration and national security policies. He has coined a new phrase, ‘undocumented Democrats,’ to describe those in the country illegally, and beefed up sections of his stump speech focused on immigration.”

Tailgunner Ted as Pierce sez

On a personal level, he seems nice.

Not sure. He and Kasich sometimes seem so by contrast this cycle, but I remember both those guys being at the more aggressive (I won't say rabid) end of their party at points in the past. I think nice was purely a political calculation this election. To paraphrase the common plaint of disaffected moderate Republicans, "I didn't start being nice--my party stopped."

kasich's turn as a "moderate" is pure branding. he and scott walker have governed similarly, and he's arguably more successful. no idea why he's decided to run a mccain-style campaing (pareene's piece on his manager was great)

xactly, reminds me of when liberals mysteriously 'liked' McCain

@JoseCanseco
hug for u lindsay graham

haha i need to follow jose again

he's had some good ones lately

https://twitter.com/JoseCanseco/status/675119366330019842

I live two blocks from the former Jose Canseco Way.

Does that mean there's currently no Way for Jose?

something i've been waiting to read, theorizing on a possible path to victory for rubio - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/upshot/how-marco-rubio-could-lose-all-the-key-early-states-and-still-win.html?rref=upshot&smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur&referer=

i'm still skeptical - that's damn near the same path giuliani mapped out - but it is conceivable.

fun read here:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/lets-elect-hillary-now-1450742854

firewall

he calls cruz an "oleaginous debate champ"

"squamous deflated chump"

whey-faced shit eater

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"Please let me die."

lol someone photoshop a "Please Kill Me" t-shirt onto JEB!

wau @ Jeb's expression. This is despair in human form.

Jeb! face looks how his brother's looked when he was informed about the planes crashing into the WTC. Except that Jeb!'s face looks like that ALL THE TIME.

Didn't know Michael Cera was on team Jeb!

Jeb! is caught in his own personal hell. There's no hope and no exit.

Hell is other Bushes

He's just sad because it's not 1966 and he's not at a James Brown concert. (Cheap shot...I haven't disliked him at all this cycle.)

i don't know why jeb is doing this to himself, he's already done all the aging of a two term president after only a few months on the campaign trail

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The Tragedie of Jebbe Bushe, King of Florida.

I think even w/ his numbers where they are, bush might have a shot in a world where he hadn't picked up such a stench of a loser along the way. at this point you half expect his wife to leave him for donald trump.

yeah the way he has... idk what the word is, reified? all that gutter alphacuck shit about him is just awful. totally unable to handle it.

dk what the word is, reified reviled?

Just wait wait and see what Jeb!'s numbers do after the next debate when he sneaks up behind Trump as he's bloviating, splits him from groin to sternum with a katana, and continues answering questions in his effluvia-soaked Jos. A Bank.