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

operation American Valkyrie failed, we only incinerated his hairpiece

I think they're too chickenshit to do any of this

"The Republican party is taking 2016 off - we'll be back in 2020 with two candidates if that's ok"

Carson and Kasich need to gtfo already

One thing I'll say for it is that it isn't boring.

that's from revelations right

Former Gov. Michael O. Leavitt of Utah, a top adviser to Mr. Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, said the party was unable to come up with a united front to quash Mr. Trump’s campaign.

“There is no mechanism,” Mr. Leavitt said. “There is no smoke-filled room. If there is, I’ve never seen it, nor do I know anyone who has. This is going to play out in the way that it will.”

LOL, I give Mitch about two weeks max before he and his senate pals line up to kiss Trump's ass

I can't see it

Several senior Republicans, including Mr. Romney, have made direct appeals to Mr. Kasich to gauge his willingness to stand down and allow the party to unify behind another candidate. But Mr. Kasich has told at least one person that his plan is to win the Ohio primary on March 15 and gather the party behind his campaign if Mr. Rubio loses in Florida, his home state, on the same day.

In Washington, Mr. Kasich’s persistence in the race has become a source of frustration. At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich’s intransigence, calling it selfishness.

One senior Republican senator, noting that Mr. Kasich has truly contested only one of the first four states, complained: “He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall.”

^^^ this is batshit. Because he accepted the Medicaid dough and doesn't say mean things about gays, Kasich isn't even a possibility? They really are this stupid.

oh boy:

Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.

I can't see it

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkT

Trump's ass?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcLY78EXIAAPhQb.jpg

"my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism i was raised with"

http://www.youtube.com/v/5sJ8PWmrUDw&fs=1&hl=en

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, February 27, 2016 6:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never quite really minded hill's goldwater girl roots but the really lol90s thing here is the ingratiating npr interviewer saying in admiration "before you became... whatever you became, politically"

donald trump is not going to be the republican nominee there's no way this will end up as a contested convention. that will never, ever happen.

- everyone, summer 2015

^^^^

- everyone else, summer 2015

i predict that scalia will die in February 2016 and that the republicans will refuse to participate in the process to appoint his successor. also the royals will win the world series over the mets in 5 gamestrust me guys, this is the breakthrough year for the detection of gravitational waves. also i predict that Paul L. Modrich, Aziz Sancar, and Tomas Lindahl will win the nobel prize for chemistry, i'd put $10 on it

- me, summer 2015

Plausible

oh wait, forgot to update the dates, because i think it was only a few months that the contested convention was supposed to be absolutely impossible

LOL, I give Mitch about two weeks max before he and his senate pals line up to kiss Trump's ass

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:16 AM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

they're gonna go all in when they see that there is no alternative

"Vote Trump - we can change him"

idk a trump loss in the general is prob better for them than a win

While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches.

this seems more plausible to me. watch trump run as president, try to limit the damage to the rest of the party as much as possible by classifying him as an other/non-republican, maybe even a liberal. let clinton win, then in 2020 finally nominate a REAL conservative!

the idea that theyll be able to run against him is ridiculous tho of course

yeah, it's going to be a debacle.

this shit is craaazy

Several senior Republicans, including Mr. Romney, have made direct appeals to Mr. Kasich to gauge his willingness to stand down and allow the party to unify behind another candidate. But Mr. Kasich has told at least one person that his plan is to win the Ohio primary on March 15 and gather the party behind his campaign if Mr. Rubio loses in Florida, his home state, on the same day.

In Washington, Mr. Kasich’s persistence in the race has become a source of frustration. At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich’s intransigence, calling it selfishness.

One senior Republican senator, noting that Mr. Kasich has truly contested only one of the first four states, complained: “He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall.”

^^^ this is batshit. Because he accepted the Medicaid dough and doesn't say mean things about gays, Kasich isn't even a possibility? They really are this stupid.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:38 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's more because he has no shot of winning anyway and because for trump to be beaten the field has got to narrow

i know we'll see the same nervous nellies in here next week hyperventilating about the prospect of president trump, but man, how can you read that article and not know that this is game over for the republicans in november

there will be nervous nellies cos of that one guy at Stonybrook and his computer model

(who will probably be writing a WAyne Allyn Root 'i thought my system worked' mea culpa in Dec)

democrats need 30 seats to win the house - that seems like a lot but has happened twice in presidential years (1964 + 1980) and 6 times during midterm elections

worst case scenario for republican party could see them losing all 3 branches of government in one year

(well not potus but u know what i mean)

yeah trump puts that in play imo as well as long term losses for the party, its crazy they cant get their act together to oppose him

gotta feel for the Repubs

"alright, we got through the last 4 of Obama, the country is angry, and tired of 8 years of a black man democrat in the oval office. Now it's ours for the taking!"

'But uhh, Trump...'

"Oh that guy? he usually runs for two months then withdraws, idgaf"

man, i do not feel at ALL for the republicans

haha i don't either, I was pandering to their sensibilities for a moment.

cos y'know they totally read this thread

i will occasionally hyperventilate about trump until election day because a 1% chance of pure chaos is still alarming to me, but yes, that nyt was one of the best starts to a saturday in a loooong time

xpost

a lone tear falls down mcconnell's cheek as he scans through his ILX bookmarks

awww, Mitch, it's ok. Come on over and post to a Chillwave thread. You'll feel a lot better if you do.

But Mr. Kasich has told at least one person that his plan is to win the Ohio primary

this is also my plan

been thinking abt it and feel like this years failure of prognostication is overblown cause it was all based on the idea that the republicans leadership wld actually attempt to defeat trump but then they didnt which makes no sense, they do want to stop him they just never got around to it, dont feel like its reasonable to expect anyone to have seen that one coming

i think more broadly -- given the changing demographics of voters, the limits of polling data, and the ever-changing media landscape -- the idea that certain electoral trends can be accurately predicted by looking at historical data is severely overstated across the board

whats funny is all the pundits saying trump wld fade prob helped convince the gop that they didnt have to attack him lol dum

agree that fundamentals based prediction models are p flawed but most of the ppl betting against trump werent stats guys

looking forward to mcconnell saying they can't rush through a supreme court nominee during the brief four years of hillary's term

xp I don't think this is true though, but a lot of those models rely on the importance of endorsements of which Trump had basically zero.

If everyone's so angry why isn't Hulk runninh

He's Green Party.

Lol just drove by a gaggle of Cruz supporters. It was sad, everybody either ignoring them or flipping them off.

There were more signs than people to hold them

Because he accepted the Medicaid dough and doesn't say mean things about gays, Kasich isn't even a possibility? They really are this stupid.

That was my thought. This is so insane that the only GOP hopeful without a reputation as a nut or an incompetent (accurate or no) is the one they dismiss outright. "Not that guy, a couple of people think he's Ok. We still want crazy, just not Trump crazy." I also love that for much of the GOP, Trump is apparently too liberal (!), and for most liberals, he's too right-wing. Cross that with his low numbers among women and minorities and ... it'll be wild when he's still elected.

Been looking for a graphic of Trump with a suicide vest, but so far no dice! How can that be? Someone get on this!

and for most liberals, he's too right-wing

for me it's more like he wants to do random nonsensical crap and will probably turn the White House into a reality show.

(well obv he really doesn't want to do anything, other than get elected, but you know what I mean)