Left to Right:
Front Row
Hillary Clinton(D), Lincoln Chafee(D), Ted Cruz(R), Bobby Jindal(R), Martin O'Malley(D), Rand Paul(R), Bernie Sanders(D), Lindsey Graham(R), Jeb Bush(R), Marco Rubio(R), Carly Fiorina(R), Donald Trump(R), Rick Santorum(R), and Chris Christie(R)
Back Row
Ben Carson(R), Rick Perry(R), Mike Huckabee(R)
Missing
George Pataki(R)
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
PORTLAND (WGME) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made a quick stop at Becky's Diner in Portland Wednesday morning.
During the visit, Governor LePage said he will endorse Christie for president.
"I think he’s the real deal," the governor said during a brief speech.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
PORTLAND (WGME) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made a quick stop at Becky's Diner in Portland Wednesday morning.
During the visit, Governor LePage said he will endorse Christie for president.
"I think he’s the real deal," the governor said during a brief speech.
Hahahahahahahahaha! That and a buck 50 will get him a cup of coffee at Becky's.
I honestly thought nothing could top the mad-cap lunacy of "GOP 2012," but the sequel is featuring such a stellar cast that it may be the greatest comedy show yet.
My testimony amounts to a warning: Don't believe a word the man says.
If you have the stomach for it, this column offers some greatest hits in Christie's catalog of lies.
Don't misunderstand me. They all lie, and I get that. But Christie does it with such audacity, and such frequency, that he stands out.
He's been lying on steroids lately, on core issues like Bridgegate, guns and that cozy personal friendship with his buddy, the King of Jordan. I'll get to all that.
Sue U wrote:I honestly thought nothing could top the mad-cap lunacy of "GOP 2012," but the sequel is featuring such a stellar cast that it may be the greatest comedy show yet.
This!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
two sitting governors, three successful former governors, a couple of sitting senators, a billionaire business man, a pre-eminent brain surgeon and administrator.....
...against what? a lawyer who rode her husband s coattails to a reverse carpetbagger Senate seat and who received a Sec State appointment , just to keep her mouth shut. oh yeah, you ve got a pinko commie on your side too...
We've got a number of good, qualified, serious candidates capable of winning the election, but we've also got some lollapaloozas...
In 2012, the only half-way decent candidate (emphasis on the "half-way") was Romney. (Perry and Santorum had potential initially, but one made himself look like he was "special needs" and the other one couldn't keep his "social issues" foot out of his mouth...)
Of course regardless of the facts, it's in the political interest of Democratic supporters to try to denigrate and trivialize the entire field.
Lord Jim wrote:Of course regardless of the facts, it's in the political interest of Democratic supporters to try to denigrate and trivialize the entire field.
The delusional perspective of the Progs in this forum is nowhere more evident than it is on this thread.
The political Left is apparently lined up behind Hillary Clinton, who even the most blinded partisan must admit is a damaged, compromised, unattractive candidate, with "political" skills so absent that every moment she spends in public - every single utterance - must be carefully scripted in advance. She is so unappealing that she makes Fritz Mondale look like a relative rock star. And of course Bernie Sanders is a "rabbit," in the race only to make Hillary appear like a "moderate." The constituents who might see her this way are an elusive group indeed.
And against HRC, we have an unfortunately large horde of candidates, many of whom appear to have been encouraged to run by (1) the success of Our Current Beloved President, who was elected twice despite an astounding dearth of accomplishment or qualification, and (2) the weakness of the Heir Apparent, HRC. Aside from a few outliers, every one of the announced and un-announced R candidates comes into this campaign cycle with better credentials, more accomplishments, better "optics," and much better rhetorical skills than either HRC or Sanders, and yet this entire thread is nothing but sophomoric mockery of the R candidates.
Undoubtedly, HRC (or, if she implodes ANY D on the ticket) will have a good chance of succeeding Our Beloved President. The Democrat candidate in any election has a dozen different constituencies voting in lock-step for them, simply because they want something from Government, and they know that Democrats will pander to anyone or any group that can either legitimately or illegitimately claim "victim" status. Indeed any R candidate will have to get tremendous turnout and landslide support from the 50% of the American voting population that actually pays Federal Income Taxes (and similar folks who are retired, of course).
But if the Democrat wins in 2016, it won't be because s/he is a superior candidate, it will be the low-information, Government teat-sucker vote that will carry the day. To pretend - as the Progs posting in this thread do - that the Democrat will win because the Republican field is somehow deficient is a delusion almost beyond belief.
It was Pataki that I was questioning but I looked on a website and found there were even more "republican candidates out there. People with less name recognition than Ben Carson and less chance at winning than Bobby Jindal.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
