2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Jaron]

Romney is a joke. Flip flops, binders full of women, don't care about the poor - after 4 years people forgot all his missteps but they were countless. Plus he follows the most retarded religion on the planet.

[Eddie Teach]

Yes if you reduce a person down to bumper sticker jokes, I can see why you would think that.

The man drove across the country with his dog stuck on the roof of the car.

[Martinus]

To be fair, Trump is not a saint either, what's with his pet chinchilla always stuck on the top of his head wherever he goes?

[Eddie Teach]

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/09/video-breaking.-fox-news-reports-marco-rubio-drop/

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/08/ted-cruzs-campaign-is-accused-of-spreading-rumors-of-marco-rubios-withdrawal/?_r=0

Hey, it worked in Iowa...

[Martinus]

Awww, Ted the Liar is trying to fuck Little Marco over. 

[celedhring]

Wasn't Cruz's campaign the one that also sent fake threatening "vote or else..." letters that also outed all your neighbor's election turnover record? Classy fella.

[Legbiter]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/09/jeb-bush-meeting-with-three-candidates-in-miami-before-march-15-primary/?_r=0

MIAMI — Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida who ended his presidential bid after a string of disappointing finishes, is planning to meet with three of the remaining Republican candidates while they're in Miami for the Republican debate on Thursday night.

Mr. Bush has plans to meet with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, an aide to Mr. Bush confirmed. The list's glaring omission, of course, was Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Bush will meet with Mr. Rubio on Wednesday, and Mr. Cruz and Mr. Kasich on Thursday, the aide said. It was unclear whether Mr. Bush intended to make an endorsement before Tuesday's winner-take-all primary in Florida.

Who will get the coveted Jeb! endorsement? 

[Razgovory]

Cruz is a religious fanatic. There is really nothing more to be said. Take a look at his fathers preaching.

"America was founded on a revolutionary idea. Our rights do not come from government. They come from God."
https://www.tedcruz.org/issues/religious-liberty/

God the Almighty wrote the Bill of Rights? Too bad He waited until the late 18th century after His son's death and only gave those rights to a small number of His creation. But I guess His ways are mysterious.

The founding fathers did not believe rights come from the Bill of Rights.  They believed these rights were intrinsic.  I don't think any of them were out-and-out atheists though so the idea that they "come from God" is not off the wall.

[Grinning_Colossus]

A god is pretty much the only viable source of objective moral truth/universal values. It works well as long as you believe in one.

[CountDeMoney]

The man drove across the country with his dog stuck on the roof of the car.

Let's not forget pinning down a fellow student and cutting his hair.  Or impersonating a Michigan state trooper and pulling people over.  Or protesting against draft dodgers while filing deferments.

[alfred russel]

Lame. The whole principle is that those rights are endowed by virtue of somebody being a human being.

A human being under the jurisdiction of the United States of America. Pretty limited for an almighty god. Seems more like human construct to me. As if the American people created a government for themselves to protect certain rights they hold dear.

The beginning of the declaration of independence, the first two sentences at least were standard to require school children to memorize and recite in class. (I didn't realize I could no longer recite them until I tried typing them from memory in this post  ).

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

[derspiess]

The founding fathers did not believe rights come from the Bill of Rights.  They believed these rights were intrinsic.  I don't think any of them were out-and-out atheists though so the idea that they "come from God" is not off the wall.

Actually, from what I learned here on Languish all of them except for a couple were devout atheists and left references to the "Creator" in the Declaration of Independence as a sly way of making fun of Christians.

[alfred russel]

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/09/video-breaking.-fox-news-reports-marco-rubio-drop/

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/08/ted-cruzs-campaign-is-accused-of-spreading-rumors-of-marco-rubios-withdrawal/?_r=0

Hey, it worked in Iowa...

I don't believe it. I don't trust Marco Rubio. I saw a video of him denigrating the bible, saying there are no answers in there.

[Barrister]

Romney is a joke. Flip flops, binders full of women, don't care about the poor - after 4 years people forgot all his missteps but they were countless. Plus he follows the most retarded religion on the planet.

You're on pretty thin ice to criticize the religious views of others Marti.

[Valmy]

Lame. The whole principle is that those rights are endowed by virtue of somebody being a human being.

A human being under the jurisdiction of the United States of America. Pretty limited for an almighty god. Seems more like human construct to me. As if the American people created a government for themselves to protect certain rights they hold dear.

No all humans are supposed to have these rights not just those living under the benevolent protection of Obama.