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

Rubio is so bad at insults. He looks like a guy who went to my Catholic high school and also smiled after one of his terrible zingers.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, February 28, 2016 3:10 PM (5 minutes ago)

he called a heckler "the valedictorian of trump university" today. thought that was a good one

That’s because Donald Trump is a much smarter politician than almost anyone gives him credit for.

Idk about this. Some of his statements are so radioactive, it's hard to imagine they're part of some grand strategy.

Democrats seem likely instead to believe that exposing Trump’s sleazy past will be enough to turn serious-minded independent voters away from him, and that Trump’s xenophobia will be enough to generate record turnout among the growing number of Hispanic and other minority voters.

the latter really does look like an impossible albatross but democrats are in for their usual stunned frustration over the former

Rubio is the Drake of this election

he called a heckler "the valedictorian of trump university" today. thought that was a good one

― k3vin k., Sunday, 28 February 2016 20:16 (7 minutes ago) Permalink

Makes me think of Hank on Larry Sanders getting Phil to write him some comeback zingers for an upcoming roast. "Little Marco" kills me.

marquito

marco boobio

I've a friend we call Marquito. He wasn't a valedictorian. Solid B student.

If Trump pulls a J.J. Hunsecker and says he doesn't fancy shooting fleas with elephant guns, he'll officially be my new hero. (I mean, you know, the whole KKK thing aside.)

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?_r=0

I've spent the afternoon reading those articles and have laundry and Oscars.

the most worrying thing in those was implicit: how incredibly personally frustrated hillary clinton must be by now with obama-style reluctance to invade the middle east

quiet, lackey

is the alfred diminiuitive "alfrito"

his statements are so radioactive

trump seems to be counting on the idea that his shit talk up to now is like a cloud of smoke that he can wave away whenever he needs to replace it with a newer cloud of smoke. his media experience would tend to back this up. it remains to be seen how that idea works out for the rest of the campaign.

shes a monster lol

(xpost) That was Christie's interview on CNN today: blithely (and quite unconvincingly) waving away clouds of smoke from a month or two ago.

is the alfred diminiuitive "alfrito"

― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour),

Alito.

Yeah, it's true that by constantly churning out new awful statements he also diminishes the importance and notoriety of earlier awful statements

he wipes shit with other shit

One of the scariest things about Trump as a candidate is the idea that he may be the tip of an iceburg, not so much in terms of racism but in terms of politicians being able to say and do anything and being able to get away with it.

...if they are beloved television stars!

I feel like this was already sort of the lesson of Reagan...

while that's true, his candidacy largely succeeded due to the GOP not being able to find a strong candidate to emerge. they always do this, with 5 or 6 people jostling and even sometimes winning the first caucus, whereas Democrats often have a 2-horse race even earlier. by the time they were ready to pounce on him, he'd already become teflon. Trump has run before but usually never seriously, and the political climate on the right hasn't been the way it is now.

will wonder if GOP will start trying to coalesce around a smaller, more focused # of candidates in future runs. when the arrows are all firing inward, a Machiavellian candidate can use that to his advantage.

Problem was the gop just had so many amazing candidates. Just ask the media.

it's funny too - I wonder if we'll ever see another crossover candidate again from the right.

i'd sooner fist a bull than vote Republican, but idk, maybe if we had a really terrible candidate (worse than Kerry if that's imaginable) and the Republican actually broke party lines on a few things (namely abortion/LGBT rights) and wasn't horrible economically.

it'll be 2032 before that happens i'd bet

ahh I'm hoping i'm dead by then anyway

trump will get it this go round, and then we'll endure conservative hand-wringing about how the LIBRUL media palmed off Trump upon these unsuspecting rubes for ratings and if the GOP could have just had a "real conservative" they would have taken the White House. and the librul media will be all "yeah that's prob right lol"

xxxp No way. Parties like being in power. They'll figure out something before then. Even if it's just raising Eisenhower from the dead.

Dems made Trump in their chemistry sets

http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2Ftrumpclinton.jpg

well science is a liberal conspiracy so

when Trump loses Hillary is going to make him SEcretary of State

is the alfred diminiuitive "alfrito"

― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour),

Alito.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, February 28, 2016 2:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/3573699/alito-not-true-o.gif

JFK is the only movie I've watched more often than that clip.

not true

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bpdWsOrotV0/TU4skttjtcI/AAAAAAAAEMU/vY0ZYmFcqLE/s400/ronald%2Breagan%2Bbonzo%2B1.jpg

Trump having a field day with a series of protesters being removed from his Alabama rally. I'm guessing a third at least are plants.

"the lobbyists"

http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2Ftrumpclinton.jpg

so going to happen

part of me wonders if Trump didn't expect to get this far and is going to panic in a G.E.

I mean he's not a guy with confidence issues so "panic" would be a relative term, but I'm a bit excited for the first "NUH UH" retort in a GE debate

Bill so wants to fuck Donald in that pic

would be funny if he's actually trying to self-sabotage now with all the KKK & Mussolini stuff but the base is so batshit that it only make shim stronger.

(i don't actually think that's the case, but it would be funny)

"funny"

"I WILL KILL YOUR GOD!"

(hesistation from crowd)

'Yeah, fuck our God anyway!!!!!!!!11!!!'

Anyone ever seen You've Been Trumped by the way?

jeff sessions endorses trump

i like how this ad is meant to be slanderous but it almost makes me like him

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

i saw you've been trumped, it ran on ESPN for awhile. he comes off as a jackass.
i just remembered that i went to a trump event fifteen years ago when i worked as a realtor(!); it was some sort of condo sale. i think i shook his hand in a hallway?