The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[Jeff Lebowski]

lol. AppleJack was right.

[creekster]

lol. AppleJack was right.

And this is just as persuasive and analytical as his post. Well done to you, too.

[Omaha 680]

I agree with Creekster

But I still couldn't vote for Trump.

[New Mexican Disaster]

lol. AppleJack was right.

True dat.

[Applejack]

lol. AppleJack was right.

Finally! All is right with the internet.

[Northwestcoug]

It is shocking that many people will overlook her panoply of character flaws, not the least of which are her patent dishonesty and megliomania. Yet, the same people were going all ballistic on Nixon. As creekster points out, we know how horribly flawed she is and she lacks any of the good traits her husband possesses. In Trump, because he isn't a career politician he would be controllable and would have to rely upon those with more sensible leanings than his own. There only silver lining will be that she is so polarizing and ineffective, much of her agenda won't get passed. Unfortunately, she will likely replace the Supreme Court justices with a bunch of whacko bozos. Trump would have to kowtow to GOP insiders are likely to appoint better justices.

'He would be controllable'. Yes, I'm sure that once he gains the presidency he will become humble and realize how politically ignorant he is and rely on more sensible folk.



What's shocking is the amount of faith you're putting into Trump.

[YOhio]

lol. AppleJack was right.

You're siding with a Ute and a democrat. Better check yourself, bro.

[Omaha 680]

We need to stop all this Hillary/Trump commentary for a moment to acknowledge that Marco Rubio once got in trouble with the police when he was 18 for being in a public park after dark.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...160_story.html

MIAMI — Marco Rubio’s first year of college at a small school in Missouri ended badly. His grades were awful. A neck injury dashed any hopes of achieving greatness on the football field. He was hurting for money.

He resolved to go back to Florida and get his life on a path to success. Instead the 18-year-old added to his troubles after returning to Miami for summer break: He was arrested one night in May 1990 for being in a crime-plagued public park after closing time, according to police records and an interview with a friend who was cited with Rubio that night.

The previously unreported misdemeanor, which eventually was dismissed, tugged Rubio into the criminal-justice system just one year after the conviction of his brother-in-law in a major drug-trafficking case had exacted a devastating toll on his family. But that summer also marks a turning point for Rubio, the moment when a somewhat aimless young man found a direction and purpose that shaped the highly focused politician who now sits among the leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.

Rubio, who has no history of criminal convictions, has never discussed his arrest publicly, and he did not mention it in his 2012 memoir, “An American Son.”

How can we ever trust you again, Marco?

[Topper]

You're siding with a Ute and a democrat. Better check yourself, bro.

Pretty soon he will be starring on Utah by 5.

[old_gregg]

this thread has caused a lot of tension and heartbreak, particularly between lebowski and creek. for our own emotional safety this needs to be locked for a few days.

[New Mexican Disaster]

We need to stop all this Hillary/Trump commentary for a moment to acknowledge that Marco Rubio once got in trouble with the police when he was 18 for being in a public park after dark.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...160_story.html



How can we ever trust you again, Marco?

This is how stupid the daily horse race is. I used to enjoy politics.

[Topper]

This is how stupid the daily horse race is. I used to enjoy politics.

I am disillusioned in that neither represents an integrated public policy of good government. Who knows what the GOP stands for as you elect them and then they act like Democrats. The Dems just promise everything and promise to pay for it later. We have one big clusterf@ck.

[Omaha 680]

And this will be the exit music:

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This is still the greatest things of seen related to politics in the past 3 months.

[Moliere]

This is still the greatest things of seen related to politics in the past 3 months.

Trump's a lot of things, but he's not stupid. The more I see of his campaign, the more brilliant it seems....regardless of the blatant xenophobis and islamaphobia, both of which are part of the brilliance. The endorsement by Palin, with it timed right around the Iowa caucus and with it pulling more attention from the other candidates and putting the light squarely on him again even at a little bit of a cost (Palin is a cost these days...well, she's always been a net negative) is again, brilliant.

[creekster]

this thread has caused a lot of tension and heartbreak, particularly between lebowski and creek. for our own emotional safety this needs to be locked for a few days.

I'm neither tense nor heartbroken. Too old for that from a message board.