The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[Eddie]

FIFY

Yeah, that is what I meant.

This has got to be the sorriest set of candidates we've ever had for president from either side - seriously. Talk about potential for an apathetic turn out.

We need Montgomery Brewster to jump into the race with his "vote none of the above" campaign. Can't we please have a do-over?

[Topper]

As for me I was not making a comparison. But the fact is that sanders tried to refuse taking about the Paris attacks, which had just happened, because he wasnt prepared on foreign policy. Who wants a guy as president who can't handle unexpected events? Isn't that why we look for guiding principles In a candidate? Sanders might be better than Carson, but it doesn't really matter because on his own merits he is terrible.

Agreed.

[Topper]

This has got to be the sorriest set of candidates we've ever had for president from either side - seriously. Talk about potential for an apathetic turn out.

We need Montgomery Brewster to jump into the race with his "vote none of the above" campaign. Can't we please have a do-over?

Firtthirtyeight.com has an interesting graph upon discussing the demise of Jindahl, pointing out being somebody's second or third favorite choice at this time, with so many available candidates, is not a great position to be in.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...16-republican/

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Since Jim Webb is gone, the best candidate is Bush or Christie. Bush can't win the national election and probably can't get the nomination.

Carson's flakiness is starting to dawn on people. So that leaves Cruz, Trump and Rubio for the republicans that are getting any traction right now. If there are a couple more terrorist events in Europe, I could see a small opening for Christie in New Hampshire -- some kind of 2008 John McCain scenario -- where he comes out of nowhere and wins that primary.

Hillary will get the Democratic nomination unless she's under indictment. Even then, maybe the Democrats would still nominate her, lol. The Quinnipiac poll out of Colorado today indicate that Hillary looks like a disaster in that state against either Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Trump. Sanders polls better than Hillary.

[old_gregg]

what a weird bunch of scrub candidates. lol at the gop.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

This has got to be the sorriest set of candidates we've ever had for president from either side - seriously. Talk about potential for an apathetic turn out.

We need Montgomery Brewster to jump into the race with his "vote none of the above" campaign. Can't we please have a do-over?

I was trolling a conservative friend a few weeks ago about how the Republicans just can't get out of their own way. After the eights years of the worst president in the history of presidents, when the Democrat nominee is practically guaranteed to be the spouse of the previous worst president in the history of presidents, whose own run up to the election can't seem to get out of her own way, and THESE are the candidates that they get to choose from? Amazing.

[creekster]

They are both nuts and highly unlikely to win the election, but Sanders has been in congress since 1990 (senator for the last 9-10 years). His ideology is extreme, but he is intelligent and hard-working and has been immersed in foreign policy issues for much of his career. Carson has been doing surgery and pimping snake-oil quack medicine products. There is no comparison.

What part of "I was not making a comparison" didn't come through?

[Bo Diddley]

I was trolling a conservative friend a few weeks ago about how the Republicans just can't get out of their own way. After the eights years of the worst president in the history of presidents, when the Democrat nominee is practically guaranteed to be the spouse of the previous worst president in the history of presidents, who's own run up to the election can't seem to get out of her own way, and THESE are the candidates that they get to choose from? Amazing.

Seriously. I half expect Romney to jump back in.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Seriously. I half expect Romney to jump back in.

Huntsman might even have a shot this round.

[Jeff Lebowski]

What part of "I was not making a comparison" didn't come through?

My original post wasn't directed solely to you. There was a discussion going on with several posters and it was very clearly a Carson vs. Sanders comparison. See previous page of this thread.

[Northwestcoug]

Seriously. I half expect Romney to jump back in.

You and a couple of very hopeful FB friends of mine.

But going back to Schr-ute's post, if Romney couldn't beat the worst president in the history of presidents, what makes anyone think that a late half-assed campaign by Romney will work this time?

[old_gregg]

You and a couple of very hopeful FB friends of mine.

But going back to Schr-ute's post, if Romney couldn't beat the worst president in the history of presidents, what makes anyone think that a late half-assed campaign by Romney will work this time?

incumbency is powerful

[Northwestcoug]

incumbency is powerful

Yeah, but a late half-assed campaign is still a disaster in a non-incumbent election.

[imanihonjin]

what a weird bunch of scrub candidates. lol at the gop.

Why just the gop.....sure they have a bunch of loons running but the dems just a have a few loons running.

[Goatnapper'96]

Why just the gop.....sure they have a bunch of loons running but the dems just a have a few loons running.

But in this case it is obvious that the GOP has more!