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

The only plausible way this could happen - and I can't imagine President Hillary Rodham Clinton ever doing this - is pulling the ol' wait-until-after-the-primaries-have-started LBJ announcement.

Bill's pecker trail just an amusing circus highlight of Hil's Great Feminist Fraudulence.

this campaign and '08 is her gift for being The Good Wife

her gift from who? you think the country is going to vote for her as potus bc they feel bad for her?

I'm talking about the coronation by the Republicrat Party. Nominations ain't got shit to do with democracy.

She'll be a fine war criminal tho, i understand your excitement.

of course she was such a blatantly vile asshole 8 years ago the Community Organizer filled the feelgood vacuum

in almost all circumstances i think you're a moron only worth insulting but honestly i'm curious to find out here what you mean bc it's all very confusing. you believe the democratic party is giving her the nomination to reward her for not leaving bill after the lewinsky scandal?

Clintonworld and its billions giveth, you putz

take it outside you too

Today's installment of 'Ted Cruz Is An Unctuous Pseudohuman'.

Rose Parade hijinks.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-behind-the-rose-bowl-skywriting-bash-of-donald-trump/

Oh, the Huntsville Times. Memories.

Prob goes in the ncaa thread but https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/01/carly-fiorina-just-brought-political-pandering-to-a-whole-new-level/

the best two minute of tv i've seen this year, although it's from last year:

https://twitter.com/_aLittle_NAIVE/status/683042760497213440

h/t lag000n

say what you want about ted cruz - only one candidate has the guts to tell a 69 second long joke about barack obama on NYE

the great thing about that joke is how much room it leaves for the marine to say "And just to clarify, sir, the current president is Hillary Clinton. SEE YA TOMORROW!"

the face on the broadcasters' faces at the end is priceless too

FACE.

Cruz is SPECTACULARLY unlikeable.

I don't think I had seen his face in motion before, I couldn't bear to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=PmqhTynfCxg&app=desktop

uh, hey guys

https://youtu.be/PmqhTynfCxg

ah fuck it i dunno how embeds work anyway

Cruz's lines don't work anyway - the next president doesn't take office until 2017, right? So this is going to be the last full year of all these terrible things, which you'd imagine would make it unbearable.

Yeah, he's saying 2016 will be a GREAT year! Obama will be president all year long!

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/laurareston/files/2015/07/Ted-Cruz.jpg

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

Karl I would love a gif that suggests that his head is full of lizards.

That made me LOL in that way you do when somebody shows you a really excellent wax model they made of your dead parents

know exactly what you mean

totally

The clown car crew reflects on 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/one-year-two-races/2016/01/03/28f65044-b15e-11e5-b820-eea4d64be2a1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_amazingyear-main%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

xp:
We've all been there, right?

Buried in that WaPo article: Ben Carson staff getting the fuck out.

oh man:

Perry judged himself and Bush to be “two of the most successful Republican governors maybe in the history of the country.” Surely, he believed, “the American people would distill down which of these individuals had the best vision for America. . . . It was going to be me and Jeb.”

oh, the vision thing

so that's what the glasses were for

I also didn't remember Romney getting any kind of push in 2014? I thought it was only the complete car crash that the race has turned into that got people remembering him fondly.

never forget:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/01/article-2286627-185E2E6C000005DC-574_634x780.jpg

Yeah fair point, the moral of the story is definitely "things look different from inside a campaign".

Even though Ben Carson just raised $23 million last quarter, his top campaign consultants understood that getting Carson's message out to an ever-increasing percentage of voters nationwide could only spell impending disaster. Getting out now retains their reputations.

love the Ole Miss polo, really reminds you how Mitty's such a great fan of sport.

In the SEC, I would've put Mitt as either an Ole Miss or Alabama fan.

Maybe since Alabama has actually won a championship before, he found more in common with the Rebs.

heh

I can partially understand Kasich and Christie hanging around (even Bush if you multiply "partially" by another 10%) to the extent that their "moment"--a brief flurry of media interest, a good poll, something, anything--hasn't happened yet. (Christie's may be happening now, and maybe Bush's already happened before he announced.) But it's sad that Fiorina and Carson can't or won't recognize that theirs have come and gone.

sad for...? you want them to hold on to the immeasurable dignity they've accumulated in this charade?

Wrong on Christie there I think - he was the first to crack 20% in the polls, his moment came 18 months ago and he's still chasing it.

Basically Bush / Christie (even Kasich to an extent) are betting that a) the party will swing for a reasonable candidate (because part of being on the reasonable end of the party is being willing to stand aside to avoid the crazies getting in) and b) Marco Rubio has a low ceiling because Hispanic but not popular with Hispanics. But then being aware of the flaws of every other candidate is a common flaw :)

Trump's first ad--he's going to cut the head off Mexico and Isis is going to pay for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itsSDhgKwhw

You might be right about Christie--he might have even peaked just before he declared his undying love to the president three years ago. But promise you won't use Christie and crack in the same sentence again.

Includes footage of morroccan border

lol yes and campaign person's response to that was (exact words) "No shit."