Maybe we should just elect Trump president

But I think the overall narrative on Trump is that he's a buffoon who doesn't really take this all very seriously. I just cannot imagine that Trump becomes the GOP nominee. There's too much out there on him, and he's constantly at risk of going nuclear in a debate or an interview. But Carson is more of a smiling enigma that never seems to get ruffled. I don't think he'd survive the scrutiny either, but there's something chilling about him.

Honestly, Walker was the one I feared the most until he face-planted. Man, that guy is such a dweeb.

Relaxer wrote:
Honestly, Walker was the one I feared the most until he face-planted. Man, that guy is such a dweeb.

If you told me Scott Walker wasn't going to be the nominee a year ago (sans scandal, dying, etc) I would've ate my hat. He really was the one person they could run out there who could win a national election. Of course, they then ate themselves as they are wont to do of late.

Carlos wrote:

Relaxer wrote:
Honestly, Walker was the one I feared the most until he face-planted. Man, that guy is such a dweeb.

If you told me Scott Walker wasn't going to be the nominee a year ago (sans scandal, dying, etc) I would've ate my hat. He really was the one person they could run out there who could win a national election. Of course, they then ate themselves as they are wont to do of late.

Would this country really elect someone without a college degree?

"Fuck you"

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Would this country really elect someone without a college degree?

There are entire swaths of this country where "college educated" is a slur.

I put the odds of a non-college educated President astronomically higher than a gay, religious affiliation non-Christian*, vegetarian/vegan, or atheist President in 2016.


* - To clarify I mean "openly" non-one of those things. Someone who doesn't really believe in the Bible but attends church on camera and calls themselves a Christian counts as "Christian" for these purposes.

Ben Carson was a great surgeon.  I have no clue why he thinks he could be president.  0 experience.

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Ben Carson was a great surgeon.  I have no clue why he thinks he could be president.  0 experience.

Barack Obama was a great community organizer. I have no clue why he thinks he could be president. 0 experience.

Well, that's kind of cheating since he was a senator too. Obviously I'm not above cheating, per my Truman post on the previous page, but the bottom line is LCD Soundsystem is not reuniting at Coachella.

Trump and Carson are both savants in their respective fields. Everywhere else they are out of their depths. Carson's apparent reserve is just the steely nerves of a surgeon.

I wish I could've been a savant at surgery or international business instead of being a savant at eating old popcorn someone left behind in the previous showing of "Paul Blart Mallcop 2"

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Well, that's kind of cheating

funny, i think of more as obtuse.  did obama have any experience as president?  no (no one does, unless you're seeking a second term).  did he have political and legislative experience?  why yes, yes he did. 

he was also a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the university of chicago's law school… so, you know, he knew was he was getting into.  clearly unlike carson or trump, who don't know where federal laws end and states' rights start.

Having knowledge on a subject =/= "experience."

Carlos wrote:
Having knowledge on a subject =/= "experience."

sweetcell wrote:
did he have political and legislative experience?  why yes, yes he did. 

and agreed that knowledge =/= "experience", but the next best thing is being a professor on the topic at a top-flight law school.  carson and trump have no idea what the relationships are between congress and the white house, who decides what, who can make the other do what, what the mechanics are… whereas obama taught on the topic.

look, we get it.  you're still butthurt that obama won and hillary didn't.  cheer up, you girl is getting a second at-bat.

For some reason, I'm just not that excited about this one. I'll still watch it because it's a good excuse to get wasted, but there will be a hole that only an orange-haired billionaire balloon can fill.

That said, I think there's a 35% chance that Martin O'Malley takes off his shirt at some point. Dude needs to make waves. He could even play it off by saying "Ahhhh, much better, no one needs the chafee, ya know?"

totally pointless debate…I may tune in during baseball commercial breaks

there is no compelling reason to watch this…

Hillary 2016

Fear not – https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/653868764094722048?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Well, I know that Trump on Twitter is a very special thing, but I cannot imagine that he'll be very quick on the draw. He'll make some comment about an answer that was given 7 questions earlier.

That said, I do hope to hear that "HRC looks like golden retriever left out in rain. Unique smell!"