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

doesn't bode well for the NRO anti-Trump crusade that every anti-Trump post has comments flooded with stuff along these lines:

I just want someone to conserve my nation. Protect the borders, protect society, keep the historically massive invasion OUT. Keep my community safe and prosperous.

Trump says all the right things about those. He may or may not carry through, but the GOPe WILL NOT carry through. GOPe has abandoned me.

There's so much more damning video of him from the 90s espousing left wing positions. This is nothing.

i'm talking about November, and to the ppl who think he has a shot at non-Tea Party non-Clinton-is-a-demon blocs.

hey, here's deep NYT thoughts

ROOM FOR DEBATE
Does Money Really Matter in Politics?

If Jeb Bush's enormous campaign treasury could not even get him a single victory, is the role of electoral donations exaggerated?

Idiots.

I think a lot of people believe you can ad-buy your way into office and the person w/ more money always wins

this election is both a case of 'money not mattering' (the above is wrong) and 'money *really* mattering' - the guy who doesn't have to kowtow to the donor class gets to run on issues that aren't popular w/ them but are popular w/ actual voters. true to a certain extent w/ sanders too.

Dumb question, but I'm dumb: what happens to all of Trump's active businesses, the casinos and buildings and whatnot, if he's elected?

Bonus fascism points: his gaudy gold name all over everything already. If elected, he should promise to bring back gladiator battle.

It's perfectly possible to be a private citizen and hold elected office at the same time

There are a lot of part-time state senators whose other job is, like, head of a local carwash empire

Rick Scott being floated as a potential Trump running mate. Obvious move. Given that Trump's hair is a general-election liability, it makes sense that he'd go for a nearly hair-free VP.

http://histalk2.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rickscott_thumb.png

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

She's got guts, can I vote for her?

what could Trump possibly gain with Skeletor as a running mate? He's already got the white mummy vote.

Holy hell, fuck all those people in the video saying "that's inappropriate" and "that's rude."

Maybe they were calling Clinton rude for her horrible quote.

prediction: if trump wins the nomination, at some point in the race after picking a running mate, he will publicly denigrate them

They should've been.

There was also the "you're trespassing!" idiot.

xp

Everything by everyone pertaining to the 1994 crime bill is atrocious and embarrassing. Disappointed that it seems like Hillary was almost ready to engage while at the same time not trying to stop her security detail from showing the young lady the door. I realize you don't want to set a precedent of engaging with a protester anytime anywhere, but she really missed an ideal "come to Jesus" moment there.

i agree, she should apologize for that statement at least. i hated when she rhetorically asked the protester if she wanted to "hear the facts," like, the girl obviously knew the facts better than the polite audience members

Hil lets the veil drop fairly easily when she's not at a big canned event

Rich Lowry whimpers. The second to last paragraph is especially rich.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/anti-donald-trump-ads-opinion-213675

That Lowry piece has some post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc problems.

This will all be in the tradition of the early Democratic ad campaigns that successfully kneecapped Republican nominees in 1996 and 2012 (Bob Dole and Mitt Romney, respectively).

It's not shown that D ads "successfully kneecapped" Dole and Romney - they could have lost for other reasons. It also leaves open the question of what unnamed, unseen force it was that "kneecapped" McCain 2008 (or, for that matter, Bush in 1992).

the trump university thing should be an ace in the hole, no? that was a direct scam targeting people who couldn't afford or didn't have time for conventional business school

the trump university thing should be an ace in the hole, no? that was a direct scam targeting people who couldn't afford or didn't have time for conventional business school

Do you think Trump's followers will care? It seems like he's giving purpose to a lot of people who are lost; reading messageboards and haunts for his supporters, it's like these people were given a second breath of life. What do you think their limits will be as far as his personal corruption goes? I wonder what the limit would be.

As far as regular people go, maybe it'll be relevant. I can't imagine Trump will win just with his true believers on board. Though flagrant and obvious corruption doesn't seem to bother the average Republican... who knows, some may even give him credit for pulling off a quality scam.

attack ads won't be aimed at Trump's authoritarianbots

gonna just start calling them Trumplings

morning, Shakey!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2016/02/25/poll-trumps-negatives-among-hispanics-rise-worst-in-gop-field/

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, when asked to comment on Mexico refusing to pay for a wall between the two countries, says, "The wall just got ten feet higher."

lol he should just keep doing this until the imagined wall reaches space. the thought of it will be our legacy.

anyway traditionally we go by shirt color iirc.

xps yup, for Trump's base any attack ad will just increase affinity - "they're out to get him"

"keep talking mister, that's another two weeks of detention. now three weeks. i can keep doing this all day."

attack ads won't be aimed at Trump's authoritarianbots

― Οὖτις, Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly

Scenarios (just briefly skimmed--looks interesting):

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-last-ditch-hope-to-stop-donald-trump/

are these guys nuts? nobody in the GOP primary base gives a shit about misogyny

https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/702868802728550402

https://twitter.com/reihan/status/702867018287083520

check all those replies too. wake the fuck up dudes!

NRO pleased with the NYT feature on his visa-worker hypocrisy. Neolibs and cons, kumbaya.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431908/donald-trump-immigration-hypocrite-who-ignores-american-workers

trump will lose hispanics & women by record margins for a GOP nominee, will be fun to see

Lots of Hillary Derangement Syndrome types saying she should go to jail for emails FFS but not prepared to engage with the possibility of Trump's mafia connections.

are these guys nuts?

deluded and/or moronic

someone has to figure out how to ridicule and emasculate him -- i think the problem is that all the conservative types with a talent for insults and bullying are fans of trump

seriously baffling Christie never took a crack at it, went for the murder suicide with Rubio instead

My Dad's had to have a couple procedures this week, and I've been spending time with him in the hospital, among other things watching the most regular network TV since, er, when I was in the hospital last spring. One thing i've noticed is Rubio and his PACs are spending serious coin on ads here in Tejas, with at least one running during every break during the news and other issue programming.

hi!

The Donald Trump juggernaut rolls into Florida where the GOP front-runner leads native son Sen. Marco Rubio 44 – 28 percent among likely Republican primary voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has 12 percent with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 7 percent and Dr. Ben Carson at 4 percent.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

haha holy shit

of course, why would anyone in Florida like Rubio - he hasn't done shit for them

Florida GOP primary voters are overwhelmingly non-Cuban.

non-campaign pro-trump robocall: "The American National Super PAC makes this call to support Donald Trump. I am William Johnson, a farmer and white nationalist. The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called “racist.”"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-robocall-super-tuesday-william-daniel-johnson

Lots of Hillary Derangement Syndrome types saying she should go to jail for emails FFS but not prepared to engage with the possibility of Trump's mafia connections.

I like the term "functionally irrational" for describing what looks to be a very large voting bloc in the US (and probably everywhere).

The American National Super PAC makes this call to support Donald Trump. I am William Johnson, a farmer and white nationalist. The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called “racist.”

this call is getting worse all the time

warning: boxing history

@mtaibbi
Trump-Hillary would be Hagler-Hearns, for months and with no breaks between rounds. Unmatched rage/ugliness factor.

On Trump leading Florida polls: no surprise that America's wang likes America's head wang-waver.

i can completely see, come September, the Katha Pollitt Gang declaring that any lefty who fails to vote for HRC (even in an uncontested state) IS A FASCIST.