POTUS Election thread

[Kralizec]

Trumps ego is hilarious. He sued a reporter once because he wrote that Trump's net worth was less than 1 billion USD, and demanded 5 billion USD in damages.

good stuff:
http://www.bloombergview.com/article...0-billion-too-

When they asked him about how he calculated his net worth, he noted that the figure “goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings.” Later he added that “even my own feelings affect my value to myself.”

[rvg]

Trumps ego is hilarious. He sued a reporter once because he wrote that Trump's net worth was less than 1 billion USD, and demanded 5 billion USD in damages.

The more I hear Trump speak, the more I like him. I still think he's unelectable, but boy, he stands in such contrast to the usual rank'n'file weather vane politicians. Chris Christie is the only one who comes close, but he has him own electability issues.

[Hooahguy]

I thought this was the Onion at first...


Is it wrong that I really want to see this happen?

[whyidie]

If I was a conspiracy guy, I would believe that Trump is a Democratic Party plant meant to embarrass the Republican Party. Trump has been on the record back in the early 2000s and 1990s as being very liberal with things such as universal health care.

Heh, if we had to vote on conspiracy theories I'd go the other way. Trump makes the other GOP candidates look more palatable to the gooey middle which will decide the election in the battleground states. Case in point, Rick Perry has someone he can call nuts. Quite a turn around from 4 years ago.

The more I hear Trump speak, the more I like him. I still think he's unelectable, but boy, he stands in such contrast to the usual rank'n'file weather vane politicians. Chris Christie is the only one who comes close, but he has him own electability issues.

Christy would be interesting. I think he is one of the few GOP candidates who could win a general election.

Best shot for GOP is to flip FL, OH, VA and one of the mountain west states (CO, NV, NM).

Only candidates they have that are capable of pulling it off are Kasich, Bush, and Christie. Everyone else is noise. They're playing for the 2nd prize of book/tv/campaign money.

[a completely inoffensive name]

TRUMP IS GOING TO THE DEBATE. Muh American Dream coming true.

[Hooahguy]

My mother, who is fairly conservative, wanted to watch the debates with my brother and I so we armed ourselves with a suite of sitcom crowd noises in preparation for the event.

[Hooahguy]

So that was a pretty interesting debate.

For Trump, he basically admitted to bribing politicians and that he was fine making degrading comments about Hispanic immigrants and women, and when asked if he would pledge to not run third party, his reaction can be very, very accurately summed up as this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seeing Christie and Rand Paul go at it over the 4th Amendment was interesting, especially since Christie lied about when he was appointed as US attorney for New Jersey. He kept repeating it was the day before the 9/11 attacks when in reality he wasnt nominated until December after the attacks and didnt take office until January of 2002. But more amusing was his loud argument with Paul, where Rand kept repeating "Use the Fourth Amendment!" to which Christie didnt really seem able to give a good reply to. Oh yeah, and then they argued over Christie giving Obama a hug after Hurricane Sandy. Really.

Walker mentioned his Harley motorcycle only once, surprisingly, and then mentioned busting the unions, which is also funny because Harleys are famously made by union workers.

I kinda wish they would have given Cruz more talking time as I like how he argues. I might hate everything he stands for but he is a great debater and I respect him for that. And speaking of talking times, the New York Times clocked in most candidates around the 6:46 length, but Trump had well over 11 minutes to talk while some, like Rand Paul, had as few as not even 5 and a half minutes. Probably because Trump muscled his way into more talking time.

I have a feeling that they purposely let Trump go on talking because they want him out of the race ASAP, and by letting him run his mouth they are gambling on him saying something that will crash him campaign. A risky gamble to say the least.

Anybody else watch the debates?

Should also mention Fiorina did a pretty good job in the "loser debates" and outshone the others on stage, and quite possibly secured a VP nomination at the very least I think.

[Husar]

So it will be Trump with Fiorina as VP?

I mean if the others can't even wrestle speaking time from Trump, how can they wrestle the nuke from Iran??!!?!?!?!?!111