2016 Presidential Election Thread

The three front runners are the ones with absolutely no experience that qualifies them for the job they’re running for. That says something about their supporters.

Further, the antics both at the debates and in other public appearances are more appropriate for a preschool or the WWE than for public office.

Then there are the lies…

Stupid is as stupid does and these folks definitely act like clowns so the term is an apt one. I am all for calling a spade a spade.

In 2012 I voted Green Party. I may do so again.

If Trump ,Carson or Cruz are the Republican nominee I might actually go with Hillary.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...-e-book-sends-campaign-reboot-message-n455611

Jeb publishes a new ebook (probably written by a ghost writer) to help relaunch his campaign. He is also changing his much mocked campaign slogan of "JEB!" to "Jeb can fix it!"

To bad Jeb can't even fix his own campaign.

Bernie Sanders releases a new commercial and it is pretty well down.



It seems he is trying to court black voters away from Hillary by highlighting his work in the 1960's on the civil rights movement.

This ought to make conservatives pop their circuit breakers.



It is amazing how many issues Ronald Reagan and Bernie Sanders agreed upon. That makes it perfectly clear just how far to the right Republicans have moved since 1980.

Ronald Reagan spent most of his life as a Democrat - and a union man. He didn't leave the party, the party left him.

Be careful. He's an object of worship among some here.

And that's why his quotes from that video line up with Bernie Sanders' today? Your logic doesn't track.

That is a gross exaggeration. People believing he is the best president of the 20th century does't mean they worship him.

Autism playing up again?

Really Rick? You wasting time posting when there is no opportunity to slam America.........

Clinton calls for DoJ investigation of Exxon - a couple months after Exxon quit giving her millions of dollars in donations.

Seems one of Jeb's many mistakes was taking his family's supporters for granted.

http://www.tbo.com/ap/many-bush-bac...ocial&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=buffer

The three front runners are Trump, Carson, and Rubio. Marco Rubio is qualified to be president. More so than Barack Obama was.

Jeb Bush is now polling worse than Bobby Jindal in Iowa. Ouch.

The whole whining and complaining about moderators thing really is making the Republican candidates look like weak pussies.

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/04/454387525/theres-a-jeb-can-fix-it-website-jeb-bush-doesnt-own-it

Jeb forgot to register the website for his new slogan "Jeb can fix it!" and so an anti Bush group registered it before he got around to it.

Politifact goes through Ben Carson's tax plan. Or should I say "tithing plan"

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...en-carsons-tithe-based-tax-plan-lead-1-trill/

What magical event happens during a person's fifth year in the Senate, exactly?

They are allowed to vote on legislation instead of saying "present."

President Rubio from Florida. Vice President John Kasich from Ohio.

Flip Florida and Ohio and in all likelihood the GOP wins the election.

In Ohio, note yesterday, when was the last time you heard of a marijuana legalization effort go down to defeat?

Guess who was the vocal opponent of it? John Kasich. Which says that he has lots of pull in his own state.

The Ohio marijuana vote would have created a production monopoly, something even pro-weed people don't want. It was a bad bill.

Do you have Paypal?

I don't understand the neoconservative position on criminalizing flora. Cannabis is a benign substance that doesn't intoxicate (on the contrary, sharpens the faculties) and has a tremendous amount of healing properties. Why is the default position for neocons to punish these people, hold them captive and ruin their lives?

Set aside how inhumane and asymmetrical this policy is, it's almost prohibitively expensive! FUCKING STUPIDITY (am I allowed to say that? lol)

The GOP debates are highly entertaining to watch.

Oregon the first time around.