Thread: 2016 Republican US Presidential Candidates

Nw you're just making shit up . . .

He didn't come in second in a state biased towards evangelicals on the GOP side that he was touted to win? And he hasn't made a yuuuge impression?

You betting on cows????

After NH and NC he will have a cow man.

Originally Posted by panama hat

You betting on cows????

Mooo, I mean nooo!

Originally Posted by longway

After NH and NC he will have a cow man.

I'm glad I took the bet now.

Your ever more fraught attempts at turd polishing are going to be amusing.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh and Huckabee has thrown in the towel.

Huck, Fin!

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh and Huckabee has thrown in the towel.

Huck, Fin!

Originally Posted by longway

He didn't come in second in a state biased towards evangelicals on the GOP side that he was touted to win?

He was going to win. He was going to win big. He was going to win so big that no-one could imagine a win so big.

Except, he didn't

turd polishing

Please don't bring Shillary into this.

Jeblet says 'Mission accomplished' when asked about the low expectations of him in the Iowa caucus.

This is from a guy whose super PAC dropped 14 million dollars there on ad buys.

PTSD? Battered woman syndrome? Jeb's suffering is not literally identical to the damage those illnesses cause, but he is...not okay. It's truly disturbing. Cliff Schecter joins the show to discuss the most recent Republican debate.

The bad news for Ted Cruz: His Iowa win looks very similar to Mike Huckabee’s and Rick Santorum’s. trump was never supposed to win in Iowa.

Yes, that's quite correct Donald.

What a low life underhanded thing Cruz did to Doctor Carson yesterday, sending out a message that Dr. Carson was dropping out of the race, costing this highly respected man votes! That's Washington garbage as usual! I hope President Trump makes Ben Carson his VP!!!!

Time for another spliff sidetrack, backstep and segue . . .

Originally Posted by spliff

The bad news for Ted Cruz: His Iowa win looks very similar to Mike Huckabee’s and Rick Santorum’s. trump was never supposed to win in Iowa.

. . . but then:

Donald Trump confident about winning Iowa Republican caucus

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Donald Trump exuded confidence the day before his first election day, urging supporters Sunday to caucus for him and even talking about the criteria for a vice president. "We're going to win, we're going to win," Trump told an enthusiastic crowd in a middle school gym. "We're leading everywhere."

Donald Trump confident about winning Iowa Republican caucus

Originally Posted by spliff

I hope President Trump makes Ben Carson his VP!!!!

Yeah, about that...

Originally Posted by spliff

I hope President Trump makes Ben Carson his VP!!!!

Ok....now that got a laugh! 55555555555555555555

Originally Posted by spliff

What a low life underhanded thing Cruz did to Doctor Carson yesterday, sending out a message that Dr. Carson was dropping out of the race, costing this highly respected man votes! That's Washington garbage as usual! I hope President Trump makes Ben Carson his VP!!!!

Agreed, and he has done a lot of other shady shit. Cruz is a complete fraud, and I have no horse in this race as I stopped voting in 2010, I no longer give the system any more legitimacy!

I have spent ALOT of time in Iowa, met some good people but there are alot of clueless overweight bumpkins there, and I have been everywhere there from Clear Lake to Clinton. Iowa does not mean shit, Cruz may fool the bible thumpers there with his schtick but it means nothing.

He has literally been caught red handed taking Goldie Sacks money and a bunch of other lobbyist super pac money and then sending out emails to regular folks saying he needs money to fight the insider DC power structure.

What a fraud.

Originally Posted by Deckwan

Agreed, and he has done a lot of other shady shit. Cruz is a complete fraud

Saw this earlier:

^ Yup, and there are the great unwashed masses who won't get it . . . and will go off on how women are treated in Saudi and gays are killed by ISIS

Two More Republicans End US Presidential Bids

Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian who often opposed American military intervention in overseas conflicts, dropped his bid Wednesday for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, as did another low-polling candidate, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.

Paul, a practicing ophthalmologist, won little support in the crowded Republican campaign, which currently is dominated by billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump and two conservative senators, Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida. Paul finished fifth in this week's voting in the farm state of Iowa, collecting just 4.5 percent of the vote in statewide party caucuses.

Santorum, a vocal conservative, polled even lower, finishing 11th in the 12-way race with one percent of the vote. He had won the 2012 Iowa caucuses.

The departure of Paul and Santorum leaves 9 candidates in the Republican field. Mike Huckabee, the 2008 Iowa caucuses winner, dropped out Monday night after a ninth-place finish.

The next voting is set for Tuesday, a party primary in the northeastern state of New Hampshire.

Paul now faces a tough re-election fight this year in the mid-South state of Kentucky to keep his Senate seat for another six-year term.

"The fight is far from over," he said as he ended his presidential campaign. "I will continue to carry the torch for liberty in the United States Senate and I look forward to earning the privilege to represent the people of Kentucky for another term."

In one defiant legislative episode in 2013, Paul commanded the Senate floor for almost 13 hours in opposition to President Barack Obama's use of drones to attack suspected terrorists.

While that marathon speech won him support from many opposed to U.S. military operations, it did not translate into support in the Republican presidential campaign, where his opponents regularly have called for heightened military action against Islamic State terrorists beyond the aerial bombardment Obama is carrying out.

Two More Republicans End US Presidential Bids

The Donald is still way out in the lead.

It didn't take long, the expected Trump tantrum:

Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of of stealing Iowa caucuses

8:49 AM Thursday Feb 4, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused rival Ted Cruz of cheating to win the Iowa caucuses. The second-place finisher claims the senator from Texas misled voters to believe fellow candidate Ben Carson was quitting the race, and he is calling for a new election to take place or for Cruz's victory to be invalidated.


"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated. Bad!" Trump said in a Twitter post Wednesday morning.


"Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified," he added in a subsequent tweet.


Tensions between the Carson and Cruz campaigns have simmered since Monday night's Iowa caucuses, when reports emerged, as voters filed into their voting precincts, that Carson would be leaving the campaign trail the following day to return home to Florida. Many interpreted it as a sign that he would drop out of the presidential race entirely, which Carson's team strongly denied. But on the ground, Cruz staffers at several precincts reportedly began telling voters about Carson's departure - potentially discouraging them from voting for Carson on the assumption that their votes would otherwise be wasted.

The rumor of Carson's imminent departure spread widely before the campaign could contain it. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a prominent figure and Iowa and a Cruz supporter, at one point tweeted: "Carson looks like he is out. Iowans need to know before they vote. Most will go to Cruz, I hope."

Cruz's first-place finish defied polling in the state, which indicated he was trailing Trump in the final days before the election. The real estate mogul ultimately came in second place, taking 24 percent of the vote to Cruz's 28 percent. Sen. Marco Rubio trailed just behind Trump in third place with 23 percent.

Carson - who finished fourth with 9 percent of the vote - had been sustained in Iowa by his large support among Christian evangelical voters despite a sharp decline in national polls since November. Cruz's campaign strategy and voter turnout effort rested heavily on courting those same voters, which the senator has pursued more persistently and aggressively than any other candidate next to Carson.

Although Iowa strategists long predicted that Carson's campaign did not have the organic support or campaign infrastructure to pull off a victory in the state, the campaign believed he could finish in the top three and ride the momentum into the next nominating contests. Other candidates have kept a careful eye on Carson's base in hopes of absorbing his voters if and when he drops out.

Carson and his campaign lashed out at Cruz Monday night, calling the victory "tainted." The doctor later said that Cruz had told him that he did know about the campaign's actions. And after initially downplaying the criticism, Cruz publicly apologized to the Carson campaign.

"He is a wonderful and talented individual, and I've thoroughly enjoyed our time together on the campaign trail," Cruz said of Carson in a statement to The Washington Post. "What the team then should have done was send around the follow-up statement from the Carson campaign clarifying that he was indeed staying in the race when that came out."

Carson accepted Cruz's apology Tuesday evening but continued to disparage the campaign's actions.

"These 'dirty tricks' political tactics are part of the reason Dr. Carson got into this race and reflect the 'Washington values' of win at all cost -- regardless of the damage to the country -- which he is trying to change," his campaign said in a statement. "This incident further demonstrates that we need an individual who is not a politician to lead and to heal our nation, not someone driven by ambition."

Cruz's communications director, Rick Tyler, addressing the allegations of misdeeds Tuesday morning - before Cruz issued the apology - said on MSNBC that "it's just false."

"We simply as a campaign repeated what Ben Carson had said in his own words. He said after Iowa he was going to go back to Florida for a couple of days and then he was going to go to D.C. to the prayer breakfast. And what that told us was he was not going to New Hampshire," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday. "That's not a 'dirty trick.' That was really surprising by a campaign who was once leading in Iowa saying he's not going to come to New Hampshire. That's a news item."

The Republican National Committee and the Iowa GOP did not immediately return requests for more information about how voter fraud complaints can be formally filed. The Cruz campaign did not immediately return a request for comment regarding Trump's call for a new election.

Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of of stealing Iowa caucuses - World - NZ Herald News

Remember Donald: 'Nobody remembers who came second'... Even if they are petulant cry-babies.

^ Well spreading the rumour that Carson was going to drop out was a dirty trick and quite a serious breach of ethics at the very least.

Originally Posted by longway

Well spreading the rumour that Carson was going to drop out was a dirty trick and quite a serious breach of ethics at the very least.

It's Cruz the human oil slick, what do you expect.

Doesn't make Trump's whiny histrionics any less pathetic.

^ Given the polling leading up to the caucus Carson got the percentage he was polling at, not sure how they can investigate if it made a difference or not.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It's Cruz the human oil slick

You're bringing back memories of the old Meet Ted Cruz the new Joe McCarthy thread that the genius in charge shit canned.

Polling-schmolling. Those things are only political weather forecasts and about as reliable.

Plus you're talking about disproportionate media attention on an electorate that's 90%+ White so it's hardly representative of the U.S. nor that important in the long-run. Santorum won last time around and look where that got him.

Trump's just a sore loser.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Trump's just a sore loser.

and human wind sock