2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Savonarola]

The usually restrained BBC  does get out some of their better lines about our debates.  My favorite (about Carson):

The retired neurosurgeon offered a third-straight somnambulant debate performance, which means he'll probably be the undisputed frontrunner when the next polls come out.

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[HisMajestyBOB]

Ben Carson, entering the night with the wind at his back, looked more like a candidate with the sun in his eyes—dazed, confused, and completely unprepared to debate the issues relevant for a presidential race.

How exactly was that different tonight compared to other nights?

Yeah. If he was any other candidate, I'd say he'd be dropping fast in the polls. However, his support seems to come from pure crazies and zealots, so it's really hard to tell how he'll be impacted, if at all.

[Valmy]

Baseball is boring.

Commie

I find it boring as well, to be honest.

Well of course you do.

[lustindarkness]

I don't think I can trust a party holding their primary debate during the World Series. I also don't think true Americans would watch the Republican primary debate with the World Series being on. 

Fuck that noise. I am twice the American than you wish you were and I don't watch baseball.

Are you sure you're a Puerto Rican!?

Yes,  I am twice the Puerto Rican than you wish you were, what does that have to do with it?

[lustindarkness]

Ben Carson, entering the night with the wind at his back, looked more like a candidate with the sun in his eyes—dazed, confused, and completely unprepared to debate the issues relevant for a presidential race.

How exactly was that different tonight compared to other nights?

Yeah. If he was any other candidate, I'd say he'd be dropping fast in the polls. However, his support seems to come from pure crazies and zealots, so it's really hard to tell how he'll be impacted, if at all.

Yeah, it seems Whispering Ben is getting the religious right vote and as long as he does not "compromise his morals and convictions" blah blah he'll get all those votes.

[Valmy]

Yes,  I am twice the Puerto Rican than you wish you were, what does that have to do with it?

Roberto Clemente is a the greatest Puerto Rican in history so everybody from Puerto Rico must watch baseball as a patriotic duty.

[Valmy]

Yeah, it seems Whispering Ben is getting the religious right vote and as long as he does not "compromise his morals and convictions" blah blah he'll get all those votes.

You just need to get him to blurt out in a weak moment: 'the gays aren't so bad'.

[jimmy olsen]

Yes,  I am twice the Puerto Rican than you wish you were, what does that have to do with it?

Roberto Clemente is a the greatest Puerto Rican in history so everybody from Puerto Rico must watch baseball as a patriotic duty.

Watch and play in the local league until your knees won't let you anymore.

[lustindarkness]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I played beisbol as a young one, batting and running the bases was fun, standing out in the outfield was not so much fun, watching someone else play has always been boring.

And yes, Roberto was The Awesome.


Back on the debate last night: Biggest losers, Kasich and Bush?

[jimmy olsen]

Gentlemen, gentlemen, I played beisbol as a young one, batting and running the bases was fun, standing out in the outfield was not so much fun, watching someone else play has always been boring.

And yes, Roberto was The Awesome.


Back on the debate last night: Biggest losers, Kasich and Bush?

What I think about Bush's candidacy.

[Berkut]

Yeah, Kasich isn't really relevant enough to lose. You can't lose what you never had.

Which is, yet again, another damning statement about how fucked up the Republican Party is today.

[jimmy olsen]

Yeah, Kasich isn't really relevant enough to lose. You can't lose what you never had.

Which is, yet again, another damning statement about how fucked up the Republican Party is today.

I think he has a good chance for VP.

He's from Ohio and will balance out the more conservative nominee.

A Rubio-Kasich team would have a chance to win I think.

[Admiral Yi]

Read an article in The Atlantic that talked, among other things, about the rule of 14.  Apparently since around the turn of the century very few people (LBJ might be the sole exception) have been elected president more than 14 years after they were elected as governor, senator, or vice president.  The thinking is after that time they're too stale.

Hillary and J.E.B. both break the rule of 14.

The article was about the trend toward electing presidents with less and less experience in elected office.

[DGuller]

It's easy to find a pattern that works retroactively, especially when you're dealing with maybe 20 data points.

[MadImmortalMan]

If you play football at Michigan, you can be President without even running.

100% correlation.