US Election - Where Do You Stand?

[Knobby22]

Way to get votes guys. (Cruz and Huckabee)
Attack Harry Potter!
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/09/rep...eaturing_ted_cruz_mike_huckabee_bobby_jindal/

Are the Republican going to get a suitable candidate?

Carly Fiorina looks OK to me but she's a gurl so not much hope of getting Republican nomination. Jeb Bush isn't a wacko. He might get up. They both want to expand the military while cutting taxes.

 

[Tisme]

Way to get votes guys. (Cruz and Huckabee)
Attack Harry Potter!
http://www.salon.com/2015/11/09/rep...eaturing_ted_cruz_mike_huckabee_bobby_jindal/

Are the Republican going to get a suitable candidate?

Carly Fiorina looks OK to me but she's a gurl so not much hope of getting Republican nomination. Jeb Bush isn't a wacko. He might get up. They both want to expand the military while cutting taxes.

That should get VC on his horse.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Tonald Drump stated thousands of people in New Jersey cheered the World Trade Center attacks. Surely he isn't an idiot in real life too.

 

[luutzu]

Tonald Drump stated thousands of people in New Jersey cheered the World Trade Center attacks. Surely he isn't an idiot in real life too.

Just reading headlines and already see that it's getting nasty this game season. Just rampant racism and loathing of the established elite... so much that they either run to Trump because they agree all Muslims ought to be tagged with some GPS chip; or don't mind his racism because at least he's "honest" and isn't an insider. Scary.

Then there's that Ben Carson saying the same nasty stuff to get the votes - and getting it too. Comparing refugees to rabid dogs... fark, he is a retired neurosurgeons.

Maybe Clinton will win this one. Yea, she's going to fight the banks and the corporations for the little guys like she's claiming.

I think Rome fell to the Caesars after 700 years of democratic/republic rule with little protests... maybe because there weren't that much democracy or people stuff in anything but taxes and military campaigning.

 

[chops_a_must]

Go Trump!

Just because the US doesn't troll us hard enough already.

 

[Logique]

So probably going to be Trump vs Clinton?

Between Scylla and Charybdis..

 

[SirRumpole]

So probably going to be Trump vs Clinton?

Between Scylla and Charybdis..

I doubt if Trump will be a serious contender in the end.

The Yanks aren't that looney.


My God, what am I saying

 

[Knobby22]

So probably going to be Trump vs Clinton?

Between Scylla and Charybdis..

A very educated comparison. (impressed)

 

[Knobby22]

Trump is looking closer than ever to winning the Republican primaries and finger pointing is starting to occur.

For instance the largest wad of money was given to Bush and it was used mainly to attack Rubio!!
Cruz just hangs around Trump and tries to steal supporters. Rubio doesn't even seem to be using attack adds, and certainly not against Trump. FOX is trying its hardest to attack Trump but he has now got them looking like what everyone knows they are.

There are worries among top Republicans, too, that the RNC is abandoning its post-2012 "autopsy," which urged the GOP to reach out to minority groups or risk decades in the political wilderness.

Sally Bradshaw, a longtime top Bush adviser who helped write the report, blamed a "lack of courage in our party" for the failure to take on Trump, as Bush has. She called Trump a “bigot” and said he “couldn’t unite our party and bring women, Hispanics and independent voters into the fold.”

“We won’t beat Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump as the nominee,” she added. “It doesn’t take a whiz-bang political data scientist to figure that out."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/...o-let-trump-get-this-far-218260#ixzz3ybg9kmJk

(At least they have stopped attacking Harry Potter, refer start of thread).
It's all very entertaining and a little sad.

 

[DB008]

Bernie Sanders could beat Clinton in Iowa next week

 

[CanOz]

Bernie Sanders could beat Clinton in Iowa next week

I hope he does actually. I know some Rebloodlicans that don't think they have anyone to vote for, yet they won't vote for Hilary...they'll vote for Bernie though...can't picture ole Bernie as pres though, he looks more like your favorite uncle, secluded in a corner of the house, tying flys....

 

[wayneL]

Bernie would make a great leader.....





.... of the local cub scout troup.

America, no.

 

[basilio]

Interesting analysis of how Donald Trump is rewriting the way American politics is run. Forgot policies, forget slogans. it's about bxtch slapping and getting away with it.

The Trumph of the Will

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-trumph-of-the-will

 

[basilio]

The heading "Triumph of the Will" and the imagery of Trump with the raised hand is no accident in the previous article. Adolf Hitler didn't get the majority of seats in the the 1932/3 elections.

But he did get his way in the end.

At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the National Socialist movement will go on for 1,000 years! ... Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power!
— Adolf Hitler to a British correspondent in Berlin, June 1934[55]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power

 

[SirRumpole]

Ted Cruz wins Republican nomination in Iowa .

That must be a blow for Trump.

 

[luutzu]

Ted Cruz wins Republican nomination in Iowa .

That must be a blow for Trump.

The world is dooomed.

Saw blurb headline how Cruz's main pitch is he's hated in Washington by those elite. That and at the last debate he would of course show more balls than Obama by carpet bombing, build/buy more ships, more tanks, more of everything that's awesome in a Michael Bay movie to make America great again.

Then Clinton is all "riled up" and "mad as hell" whenever she hear of Wall St and how them big banks got away with stealing people's money. And unlike commie Sanders she got an even bigger hit list with all them big business and bankers she'll take down once she become president.

People actually buy these stuff?

 

[Knobby22]

Rubio (who came 3rd) will win.
All the big money will all go to him now and Fox will give him every aid that they can.

 

[DB008]

New Hampshire primary: Bernie Sanders claims Democratic victory,
Donald Trump projected to win Republican contest​

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have decisively won presidential primaries in New Hampshire, riding a wave of anti-establishment anger in the second key test of the long, unpredictable race for the White House.

Senator Sanders won the presidential nominating contest after Hillary Clinton conceded, while US media is projecting the outspoken billionaire businessman Mr Trump will win the Republican primary.

A win would see Mr Trump solidify his frontrunner status in the race to be the party's White House nominee in 2016.

The reality television star's non-traditional campaign has been marked by calls for the deportation of illegal immigrants and temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.

Senator Sanders, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has called for eradicating income inequality, breaking up the big banks and providing free college tuition.

He had 59 per cent of the vote, ahead of former secretary of state Mrs Clinton who had 39 per cent, CNN said.

"Together we have sent the message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California, and that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors," he said in his victory speech.

Mrs Clinton had for months been the frontrunner nationally, but a Reuters/Ipsos poll from February 2-5 showed the two now in a dead heat.

The 68-year-old congratulated Mr Sanders, 74, in a speech to supporters and defended her progressive stances, vowing to be the candidate who fixed problems and not just state them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-10/trump-sanders-win-new-hampshire-primary/7155410​

 

[luutzu]

Seems like Sanders could actually win this thing, even without the billions from Big everything.
Hope he won't sell out like just about all other politician does.

 

[SirRumpole]

Seems like Sanders could actually win this thing, even without the billions from Big everything.
Hope he won't sell out like just about all other politician does.

Pity the people in his own party can't resist sniping at him.