2016 Elections

[vorlon13]

Since Hillary's hairstyles are apparently legit fodder for the media, I gotta ask, is that a toupee on Rand Paul ?? One of the locals here has a toup' that looks identical to Mr. Paul's, if that is in fact what we're looking at.

I like it, and real or not, he is a hot dude.

Hey, hairpieces are fine, even John Wayne wore one !!

[Anomalocaris]

Fuck Hillary.

I doubt anyone inheriting half of his genes even from Hillary could be as dumb as that moron.

[polar bear]

In  NC if you register as an independent, you can vote either republican or democrat in the primaries.

I always vote republican and vote for the most whacked out moron I can find.  

Anything to make sure those idiots can't get into office.

[Hatshepsut]

...The Democrats have Hilary and that's it. I will say...if the election really does comes down to Bush or Clinton...

I'm hardly fond of this "heir apparent" thing also. Just because Hillary in 2008, why automatic Hillary in 2016? They just queue up to stand in turn. I prefer Hillary to the Rush Limbaugh clone we might otherwise get, yet I'm worried that Hillary's electability has weakened over the past 8 years. If we get another dynastic Bush/Clinton race, well, then we deserve it for our lack of imagination.  

Rand Paul adopts a relatively progressive stance on the drug war and on use of disproportionate criminal justice measures to ruin lives. However I doubt he will win the nomination.

I don't see much use for defeatism. ... The bottom line though is that the GOP...are the party of the 15th century.

In particular, if the GOP captures both Congressional houses and the Oval Office, Obama's heath care reforms will die as the House votes repeal for the 984th time, except it now lands on the desk of a president who signs. The GOP realize 2017 likely represents their last chance to kill it. Yet every social advance has gone that way: a conservative Supreme Court struck down Roosevelt's first Social Security Act. I'm too old for much political activism beyond voting and the occasional letter. Still, I can remember when Republicans were at least in the Enlightenment era rather than the Wars of the Roses. In Congress they are prostrate before their Tea Party faction and no longer represent a center-right bloc.  

[Polaris]

Anything but a bullshit democrat and hillary clinton. The only good thing barack obama did for this country is to ruin the chances for a democrat to win the White House in 2016. barack's  leaving a big mess to clean up after he leaves office.

I think he could care less. It doesn't matter if they have a Democrat or Republican in office, they all act absolutely evil once they get elected.

Just look at McCain, we didn't get the usual McCain until after he lost the election. His concessions speech blew Obama's victory speech out of the water, but we couldn't get that McCain because that's not what the elites wanted.

[KUSA]

I could never vote for this psycho cunt.

[Polaris]

I would rather have a Republican win than Clinton because all those hypocritical Blue Dog Democrats who started supporting Bush policy once Obama supported it would turn against it once against after a Republican endorsed it.

[bennyboy]

It's going to be Hillary, and at her inaugural address, she's going to raise her hands to the sky and rain down fire and lightning bolts while her head spins in circles. I don't like her much, but I will be very excited to see her unleashed on the Republicans. No pussy-footing around, she's going to come in and start cracking their fucking skulls!

[Faith No More]

Anything but a bullshit democrat and hillary clinton. The only good thing barack obama did for this country is to ruin the chances for a democrat to win the White House in 2016. barack's  leaving a big mess to clean up after he leaves office.

Funny.  That's what you guys said about the 2012 election, too.

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No one has been able to tell me why Hillary is so popular. Anyone have a clue?

[Anomalocaris]

It's going to be Hillary, and at her inaugural address, she's going to raise her hands to the sky and rain down fire and lightning bolts while her head spins in circles.  I don't like her much, but I will be very excited to see her unleashed on the Republicans.  No pussy-footing around, she's going to come in and start cracking their fucking skulls!

If she wins big in 2016, she might sweep into the office with enough mandate to accomplishe something's at the beginning.    But I don't think she has either the political cunning, tactical skills or the rallying power to deal major policy setbacks to republicans on any sustained basis later on during her term.    Her main plausible contribution for most of her terms would be to keep republicans out of the White House without screwing up the country's international position too much on her own.

My read is Where as Bill Clinton was an inspired and pragmatic political tactician who lacks personal self discipline, Hillary is a personally disciplined but uninspired ideologue who lacks enough sense of realism.

Her term as Secretary of State was barely adaquate in not making the administration look too bad, which is not hard on the heels of the bush administration, and it's two diseasterous, elective foreign wars.

But she really was responsible for making a couple of fairly major, somewhat subtler and more quiet, but potentially just as damaging,  blunders of her own, which bespeaks of an ideological mindset dangerously disconnected from real balance of power Between major powers, actual mechanisms of international relations, and the balance of local social and political forces around the world.