2016 Presidential Horse Race

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Tyranny

You're right, it's too bad we don't have some sort of system where the other branches of government could keep each other in balance......

 

[woolybug25]

You're right, it's too bad we don't have some sort of system where the other branches of government could keep each other in balance......

Yet, one of the biggest problems people see with our current President is the abuse of executive action. Something Trump has promised to use.

Hoping congress would be successful at anything seems like a lost cause by now, amirite?

Furthermore, most dictators have came into power under democracy. It's not like they have only succeeded where checks and balances weren't in place. In most cases, they are in place and utilized to create their power to begin with.

How dictators come to power in democracies.

 

[wizards8507]

I picture Cruz practicing his predetermined answers that don't answer the ? for hours every day. Very robotic to me. First time I've really watched any of em. They could make this 40 mins, if they removed all the repeating from ev1.

He has an audiographic memory (like a photographic memory for hearing and speaking). He can't help it. But yeah, it totally comes off that way.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

Headline on the Huffington Post this morning:

"Cock Fight"

Someone needs to get a raise.

 

[drayer54]

Hopefully Kasich gains some traction but I doubt it. One thing we know for sure...he can balance a budget lol

I have zero issues with him being the nominee. However, I just can't see the path.

 

[BleedBlueGold]

Rachel Maddow did a brief history piece on her show about the 1968 Democratic Primary/Convention. It's totally relevant to what's potentially going to happen at the GOP Convention.

A brief summary for those wondering: LBJ won one state before dropping out of the primary. McCarthy won six states and Bobby Kennedy won four (before being assassinated). No one else came close to garnering the votes that McCarthy did, yet at the convention, the Democratic party ignored the voters and nominated Humphrey as the candidate to represent the Dems. Outrage ensued.

Let this be a lesson to the Republican leaders. If the people vote Trump to be the nominee, you better pick him. Because if you don't, shit will hit the fan and I'm afraid of how horrific the backlash could be. It might make 1968 seem like child's play.

 

[IrishInFl]

I have found a shocking and very disturbing video about Donald Trump. Please watch it before you vote!

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[drayer54]

Jim Webb: I won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I may for Donald Trump - POLITICO

For the people who have heard the liberals pretend that the republican party has moved too far.... Jim Webb was a senator from Virginia and a Democrat.

 

[wizards8507]

Jim Webb: I won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I may for Donald Trump - POLITICO

For the people who have heard the liberals pretend that the republican party has moved too far.... Jim Webb was a senator from Virginia and a Democrat.

This is part of the enigma of Donald Trump when trying to attack him politically. He's simultaneously a right-wing extremist and a New York liberal. When you've had every possible position on every possible issue, of course people are going to agree with you.

 

[BleedBlueGold]

Jim Webb: I won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I may for Donald Trump - POLITICO

For the people who have heard the liberals pretend that the republican party has moved too far.... Jim Webb was a senator from Virginia and a Democrat.

I'm confused by your comment.

Jim Webb used to consider himself a Republican but claimed in the very first debate that the party left him when they moved too far right. He ran as a Democrat in name only because his principals fall in line with where Rs used to be but centrist-Ds are now (for the most part).

 

[BleedBlueGold]

House of Cards Season 4 dropped today. Vote Underwood or die.

 

[drayer54]

I'm confused by your comment.

Jim Webb used to consider himself a Republican but claimed in the very first debate that the party left him when they moved too far right. He ran as a Democrat in name only because his principals fall in line with where Rs used to be but centrist-Ds are now (for the most part).

I would argue that the left has a created an environment where a centrist D can't even support the nominee.

 

[BleedBlueGold]

I would argue that the left has a created an environment where a centrist D can't even support the nominee.

They were his words, not mine.

He probably doesn't support her because HRC is more of a Republican than he is.

 

[EddytoNow]

Rubio got jokes

Rubio is a joke. Failing miserably in the primaries and trying so hard to be Trump 2.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Jim Webb: I won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I may for Donald Trump - POLITICO

For the people who have heard the liberals pretend that the republican party has moved too far.... Jim Webb was a senator from Virginia and a Democrat.

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[Ndaccountant]

One needn’t believe that there’s ever been any quid pro quo to see that this matters.

“Any suggestions that Hillary Clinton was driven by anything but what’s in America’s best interest would be false. Period,” a campaign spokesman told The Guardian. Oh, come on. Clinton may well have thought that intervening on behalf of UBS was good for the U.S. There are reports that the Swiss helped our government in various ways in exchange for shielding the bank from a worst-case scenario.

But this campaign flak cannot possibly know––or expect us to take on faith––that Clinton was not at all influenced by knowledge that acting to benefit the bank could mean seven figures for her family and more for their foundation, whereas advocating against the bank would more than likely eliminate the chance of either. Any normal person would be influenced, if only in spite of themselves, unless they resolved from the beginning that having made a decision in government that directly affected a corporation, they’d never take money from it later even if it offered.

It is a discredit to Bill and Hillary Clinton that they behave as if they believe otherwise.

Why are they indulged in doing so?

Democrats are hurtling toward a farce. The coalition that insists on the corrupting effect of Citizens United and the unlimited campaign contributions it permits is poised to nominate a couple that has seen riches flow from big banks to their personal accounts.

Hillary Clinton Helped UBS Avoid the IRS—and Then Bill Clinton Got Paid $1.5 Million to Speak at Events for the Swiss Bank - The Atlantic

 

[drayer54]

Hillary Clinton Helped UBS Avoid the IRS—and Then Bill Clinton Got Paid $1.5 Million to Speak at Events for the Swiss Bank - The Atlantic

This is why I (reason one of a million) will shed a tear as a I cast my vote for Donald Drumpf.

 

[wizards8507]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-...results/2016/03/donald-trump-cpac-2016-220263

Coward. Not a lot of knuckle-draggers at CPAC so it would be hard for Trump to work the crowd into a frenzy. He needs a room full of sycophants foaming at the mouth or he's out.

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[Irish#1]

I will say this. If nothing else, this threads got people dusting off the dictionary/thesaurus. Pretty sure you won't find these in any recruits thread. lol

aedificator
caudillismo
plebiscites
Stratification
pejorative
nascent
antithesis
cynicism
Sympatico
bourgeois
obsequious
Constitutionalist
Centrist
Anecdotally
Coherent
Tyranny
Audiographic
Relevance
Agnostic
anti-establishment
libertarian
phenomenon
ascension
isolationism
interventionism
egregious
manifests
correlation
abrasive
juxtaposition
disaffiliate
demagogue
idiosyncratic
disproportionate
melodrama
revolutionaries
ideological
originalist
pharmaceuticals
industrialists
neocons
populism
diminishment
strident
neo-conservatism
disillusionment
militaristic
outliers
triangulate
abomination
underpinnings
impervious

 

[wizards8507]

I will say this. If nothing else, this threads got people dusting off the dictionary/thesaurus. Pretty sure you won't find these in any recruits thread. lol

Other places you won't find those words include MGoBlog, a Donald Trump rally, Koon's Twitter feed, and Hillary Clinton's state.gov e-mail server.

 

[calvegas04]

Donald Trump pulls out of CPAC - POLITICO

Coward. Not a lot of knuckle-draggers at CPAC so it would be hard for Trump to work the crowd into a frenzy. He needs a room full of sycophants foaming at the mouth or he's out.

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You know he has done this cpac for the past few years with great success, this year he is focused on staying the GOP front runner

 

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Lol at the Temple gentleman in that politico article. F Trump, yea I'll vote for him.

 

[wizards8507]

Donald Trump, Tough Guy? Not Quite

 

[BGIF]

Headline on the Huffington Post this morning:

"Cock Fight"

Someone needs to get a raise.

Daily News had "Size Matters" last night.

 

[drayer54]

Lol at the Temple gentleman in that politico article. F Trump, yea I'll vote for him.

Because the other party has presented the devil in a pantsuit.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Here's a snippet from Peggy Noonan's editorial in today's WSJ:

 

[wizards8507]

Here's a snippet from Peggy Noonan's editorial in today's WSJ:

That's rich. Peggy Noonan and the Wall Street Journal editorialists are the most insulated bunch of establishment know-nothings in the country. They're the mouthpiece of the Chamber of Commerce and undermine conservatism at every opportunity.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

That's rich. Peggy Noonan and the Wall Street Journal editorialists are the most insulated bunch of establishment know-nothings in the country. They're the mouthpiece of the Chamber of Commerce and undermine conservatism at every opportunity.

Agreed, which is why it's notable that someone at that institution is finally exhibiting a little self-awareness. I'm past my limit on free articles this week, so I haven't been able to read the whole thing. She'd get major props for indicting her own paper (very doubtful), but it's still something that she's criticizing the GOP for being out of touch with such a significant chunk of its base.

 

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Here's a snippet from Peggy Noonan's editorial in today's WSJ:

I'm not intelligent enough to be a grammar nazi, I actually hate them. However someone smart plz agree with me that this was hard to read. The phrasing and commas placement really messed me up lol. Am I wrong

 

[Emcee77]

I know this might seem like a really weird correlation to assert, but bear with me a sec.

I remember reading this article a few months back, about the vast differences in the television consumption habits of the cultural elite as compared with the rest of the country:

Television: America's most watched | The Economist

ON SEPTEMBER 22nd 18m Americans huddled around their televisions to find out the fate of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the silver-haired, stoic lead of “NCIS”. Although you would never know it from the newspapers, “NCIS” (which stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service), is America’s most-watched television drama. Combining the elements of a police procedural with an extra splash of ooh-rah patriotism, the show appeals to America’s heartland but repels big-city liberals. With a median viewer age of 61, it’s the least hip show on television.

Shows like “NCIS” and “The Big Bang Theory” (the most-watched show overall) illustrate a growing divergence in the television-viewing habits of coastal urbanites and the rest of the country. Both shows are produced by CBS, have huge followings—averaging over 20m viewers each—but receive very little attention from the media. In contrast, critically-acclaimed shows like “Game of Thrones” and “Mad Men” each averaged just 9.3m, and 3.7m viewers, according to Nielsen, a television-ratings agency. Since "Mad Men"’s launch in 2007, The New York Times has written 2,480 articles referencing the show, but just 231 mentioning “NCIS”, despite the latter sharing its name with two popular spin-offs (NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans) and a federal agency. There appears to be minimal overlap in what shows are watched by most people compared to the cultural elite [see chart below].

That NY Times stat really stuck with me. The Times is spending all this time talking about shows that relatively few people are watching and relatively little time talking about the shows the most people are watching.

The NCIS viewers, these are the people who are latching on to Trump. The media elites pay no attention to them or anything they care about, so why should they pay any attention when the media elites now tell them,

Don’t vote for [Trump] because he tells it like it is, he’s a bulls*** artist. Don’t vote for him because he’s tough, he’s a baby with even smaller fingers. Don’t vote for him because he’s a builder, he’s more of a s***ty lifestyle brand.

It's a valiant effort, but they aren't listening, John. We ignored them for too long.