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

Well there ya go, Jeb's team trashing Rubio for liking NWA. It's 1988!

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/12/team-jeb-rubio-is-a-phony-on-family-values-given-some-of-the-hip-hop-he-listens-to/

I saw Trump earlier was going on about how he's not going to use "bad words" while he's campaigning in South Carolina. Can already see it:

"Well, I've been saying I wasn't going to use any bad words, but now I hear Ted Cruz, he's - and I like Ted, Ted's a good guy but Ted does not get it, if you know what I mean. He's crazy, this guy, I think. Don't you think so? Like, koo-koo, crazy. And I guess, I haven't seen it but they're telling me Ted has got an ad out now where it keeps saying, over and over, it says 'Damn.' Damn! Damn, damn, damn, damn. Ted Cruz. Well, that's in the Bible, that's not such a bad word. But, but - - - hold on. Hold on now. This lady in front, she's excited, and I'm excited too. But that's not all. People are going to notice this. It says 'Damn, it feels good to be a Clinton?!' Now what does that mean? It feels good to be a Clinton, and I can't say a bad word? Now I don't know about this stuff, but my staff, they tell me it has something to do with gangster rap. It's gangster rap about Hillary Clinton, and maybe it says something bad about her but I don't listen to that stuff. So that's Ted Cruz for ya. Gangster rap and it feels good to be a Clinton. Well, we're gonna win and I'll tell you one thing, the gangster rap, that's over, that's outta here."

how does Rubio feel about Sister Souljah tho

rubio gets the gas face

omg lol i made up that whole spiel without knowing that jeb bush and marco rubio are going at it over what the kids are calling the gangster-rap. these guys!

Where's Tipper Gore!?!?!

yeah, an acquaintance who works as a homeless advocate says that for whatever his good intentions are or are not, di blasio is so hapless as a manager that she'd rather have bloomberg back

― mookieproof, Friday, February 12, 2016 2:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know very little about bloomberg, but i do worry that as good as sanders's policy positions are, that he'd make a terrible manager. i just can't /see/ him as president, and it's not just because the last few years decades centuries have made me conflate the presidency with egotistical coldblooded alpha males.

JEB! what's on yr spotify playlist

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Even the Losers"

Air Supply "I'm All Out of Love"

Drake "No New Friends"

"Danny Lyon, one of the great photogs of the 20th century, just busted Jonathan Capeheart and Time. Stay classy, Team Hil!"

Woah.

i guess bernie was a decent small-city mayor? which is practically nothing, but still more executive political experience than obama had

oh yeah being a mayor is a breeze /s

Unsympathetic rich GOP types are bitter they are not buying enough votes/voters.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/gop-megadonors-fundraising-freeze-219228

it's almost touching how graft and corruption is unable to overpower ignorance and racism

Warms the cockles etc

yes let's just guess about 'managerial' qualities in the White House, if we have a disappointing vision let's go on with the plunging wages, endless war, rising waterline etc

the Punditocracy of the Voter, what a shitshow

bernie should pick morbs as secretary of state

confirmation hearings would be amazing

two-state Palestinian solution like *that*

as you know, reading of ILX transcripts would finish me

Dr. Morbius, the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn ILX posts!

o man if i were better at photoshop

Let's dispel with this fiction that Dr. Morbius doesn't know what he's doing - he knows exactly what he's doing!

Likable enough.

i know very little about bloomberg, but i do worry that as good as sanders's policy positions are, that he'd make a terrible manager. i just can't /see/ him as president, and it's not just because the last few years decades centuries have made me conflate the presidency with egotistical coldblooded alpha males.

What makes you say this? What suggests that he has bad managerial skills? Arguably he's run the best campaign (out of like 4933 candidates) this year, so that seems like a point in his favor.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbES_e4W4AApVnt.jpg

getting real hackman-as-luthor vibes off of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRWowww2lEI

Bernie is hard to imagine as President because he seems to be operating out of something other than a naked thirst for power or accumulation of wealth and prestige for himself and his cronies. OTOH, he's running for President, so...

looking for a reason not to vote for someone who isn't entirely from the asshole cookie-mold: classic liberalism

People on my FB feed not crazy about Bernie naming that racist wad Churchill as a hero.

this strikes me as a rather bullshit press conference/headline

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights/

“It is a blessing to the party,” Priebus said on Fox News’ “Happening Now.”

“It is helpful to us," he continued. "Happy for him to grab a ticket and get on board.”

Only fifteen minutes later, the RNC chair made the same point to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“I don’t view it as a third party,” Priebus said. “I view it as another Democrat so you'll have two Democrats running and splitting their vote. Look, he's been fighting and pounding away at Republicans for how long now? He wants to tax slurpees and sodas. The guy is a liberal Democrat so great, if they want to have two Democrats run and split their vote and let us compete in places like Connecticut and New Hampshire and Maine—places we used to win 20 years ago—we'll take it. Honestly it's no skin off our back.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/priebus-bloomberg-2016-run

looking for a reason not to vote for someone who isn't entirely from the asshole cookie-mold: classic liberalism

People on my FB feed not crazy about Bernie naming that racist wad Churchill as a hero.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius)

dividing the world up into Good People and Bad People: classic progressivism

a great timesaver when the cunts make it obvious

the Atlantic suggests Sanders push to remake Congress, starting now

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/462312/

nothing naive about wanting a presidential candidate to somehow remake all of congress

Yeah, I feel like a lot of that is stuff he's already doing, and stuff it would be insane to attempt without the nomination in hand, like diluting the fundraising pool to support congressional candidates (and incidentally painting targets on them as ''Bernie's 30''). The 'Contract With America' analogue is not a terrible idea, but again not really going to do much good at this stage imo.

The Nevada poll from yesterday, btw, is getting a lot of blowback in 538's comments (on the primary-prediction widget page). Their commentators on the main articles are generally awful, like the same shit you'd see on any site, but these seem a little more like classic Silverite stat wonks, basically pointing out that it's a sketchy polling house and the questions themselves read like a GOP-backed push poll. It's probably garbage data, sorry to say.

it's a thought if he gets the nomination (still unlikely obv, but "getting better" as Captain Kirk said to Spock) xp

on keeping Sanders honest, from the left

(OTM re "I am not a pacifist")

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Keeping-Bernie-Honest-Support-for-Sanders-Has-to-Be-Critical-20160211-0010.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66fyBz2GhCA&feature=youtu.be

bernie looks exactly the same at 45 as he does at 74 lol

I always say this, which ensures I'll be right 17% of the time: tonight's debate (yes, another one) could be nasty. Maybe Trump-Cruz, probably Bush-Rubio, undoubtedly Bush-Trump. I also think there's an 82% chance that Carson will make it to the podium within 15 seconds of his name being called.

Rubio has probably been advised not to adhere so close to the script, so faced with the prospect of having to impromptu speak, he will probably fake laryngitis and communicate only with exaggerated facial expressions.

also why has nobody pulled Trump's wig off and thrown it into the audience yet, let's fight theatre with theatre

Scalia's death is the first thing that has made a primary-season debate tempting to watch.

Three or four hours after the fact, have to believe they're all going to step lightly around this--gushing tributes, acknowledgement of the impact on the election, but careful not to appear too political. Which will last one day.

Cruz has already commented on Obama not being allowed to nom the replacement

tho not surprising that he, the hated stepchild of the GOP, would be the one to say it so abruptly

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013.

Jeffrey Toobin's been hyping him on CNN the past hour.

Scalia's death is the first thing that has made a primary-season debate tempting to watch.

otm