Republican Candidates for 2016 Race

[Sector 7]

So what are we up to now, 17? 18?

The GOP primary race is like a clown car!

In more ways than one...
According to CBS news last night, the official Republican count is 15... plus 2 Democrats.

 

[BillJ]

So what are we up to now, 17? 18?

The GOP primary race is like a clown car!

In more ways than one...
According to CBS news last night, the official Republican count is 15... plus 2 Democrats.

I think the more people in the Republican field the better it is for the Democrats. Whoever comes out of there will have to have gone so far right to get enough delegates, they'll never be able to claim themselves as a centrist.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

So what are we up to now, 17? 18?

The GOP primary race is like a clown car!

They've got a full Streetfighter player select screen.

 

[Jedi_Master]

So what are we up to now, 17? 18?

The GOP primary race is like a clown car!

They've got a full Streetfighter player select screen.

That's awesome!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I decided to leave Trump with his natural hair.

 

[J.T.B.]

I think the more people in the Republican field the better it is for the Democrats. Whoever comes out of there will have to have gone so far right to get enough delegates, they'll never be able to claim themselves as a centrist.

What, you don't think having Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich as front runners was good for Romney in 2012?!

 

[B.J.]

So what are we up to now, 17? 18?

The GOP primary race is like a clown car!

The Democrats had 22 candidates in 2008, but only 8 made it to the primaries.

 

[Hound of UIster]

If M 'Every Day is Tuesday' Bison was born in America I would vote for him.

 

[fonzob1]

I don't understand why so many people are so eager to inherit all of the problems that will come with the job. I find it astounding.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I don't understand why so many people are so eager to inherit all of the problems that will come with the job. I find it astounding.

It's the world heavyweight championship of American politics.

And ego is a hell of a drug.

 

[horatio83]

Nothing matters more than the right of individual Americans to be treated with dignity, respect and to be equal to all other Americans.

Again, this is a key difference among progressives. The New Left cares more about social issues where the Old Left cares more about economic issues.
Of course very often these issues are intertwined like in the case of racism. It is on the one hand just bigotry but on the other hand prisons, debt bondage and prison slave labour are big business. And I think that many progressives have focused far too much on the former than the latter (at least I read far more about bad people saying the N word than about actual socio-economic circumstances in prisons).

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm still going with: Sanders 2016!

Bernie Sanders has literally no chance of winning a general election.

I dunno. Aside from the crazy shit that Trump has been saying, Sanders is the one nominee that I've seen get the most exposure lately. The guy is practically taking Facebook by storm!

He's definitely the one that I'm watching with the most interest. It reminds of when Obama first popped up. Bernie Sanders is saying all the right things.

 

[horatio83]

Unlike Clintonite fake liberals like Obama Sanders would not just say but als most likely (and given the political restraints facing any progressive politician in reactionary times) do the right things.

 

[Pingfah]

I think Jeb Bush, although I am hoping for Trump.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I think Jeb Bush, although I am hoping for Trump.

Maybe they can go as running mates.

 

[Pingfah]

Except that Trump as Bush's VP takes him out of no-chance crazytown, and dangerously close to actually being president. Trump with Bush as VP, sure, why not. I like a good laugh.

 

[Gov Kodos]

That is a valid and important distinction.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm still going with: Sanders 2016!

Bernie Sanders has literally no chance of winning a general election.

I dunno. Aside from the crazy shit that Trump has been saying, Sanders is the one nominee that I've seen get the most exposure lately. The guy is practically taking Facebook by storm!

So does Ron Paul every time he runs, for a while.

I like Sanders, and he's the candidate that most aligns with my views, but he's got no chance of making it to the general election.

 

[Squiggy]

Bernie Sanders has literally no chance of winning a general election.

I dunno. Aside from the crazy shit that Trump has been saying, Sanders is the one nominee that I've seen get the most exposure lately. The guy is practically taking Facebook by storm!

So does Ron Paul every time he runs, for a while.

I like Sanders, and he's the candidate that most aligns with my views, but he's got no chance of making it to the general election.

Agreed. I'd vote for him in a second if he made it to the general, but a Bush v Sanders election would go down like 1980.

Trump v Sanders would be more like 1936.

 

[suarezguy]

I think the more people in the Republican field the better it is for the Democrats. Whoever comes out of there will have to have gone so far right to get enough delegates, they'll never be able to claim themselves as a centrist.

What, you don't think having Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich as front runners was good for Romney in 2012?!

Bachmann wasn't a front runner and Cain pretty briefly; I don't think they or Gingrich were damaging to Romney in an election that he might not have been able to win.

I don't understand why so many people are so eager to inherit all of the problems that will come with the job. I find it astounding.

You can just blame the guy before you. But I seriously think it is disturbing that a lot of the candidates are motivated by wanting to give back to the particular interests that supported them.