Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[Gurn Blanston]

Is there a candidate that can be safely voted for his own qualities and ideas and not just because the alternative is worse?

Not so far. I'm hoping Kasich might turn out that way, but there haven't been any pleasant surprises yet, so I don't know if there is a point in hoping for one now...

[drogulus]

Is there a candidate that can be safely voted for his own qualities and ideas and not just because the alternative is worse?

     I refuse to understand the question.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Can he really single-handedly do such harm to domestic economy and society as to bring USA to the brink of extinction?

No, he'll have Congress to help him.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Oh, then you should probably read up on it a bit and then come back to this thread.

He is entitled to post here whether he is well-read or not. Ignorance of a subject has never inhibited anyone else from posting to these forums.

[Todd]

He is entitled to post here whether he is well-read or not. Ignorance of a subject has never inhibited anyone else from posting to these forums.

He can certainly post all day long on anything, that is true, though I suspect you could divine the rhetorical nature of his questions. 

[(poco) Sforzando]

He can certainly post all day long on anything, that is true, though I suspect you could divine the rhetorical nature of his questions.

I make no claims to divinity.

[kishnevi]

Nah.  Trump likes Putin.

There is China, however...
http://freebeacon.com/politics/china-warns-u-s-after-trump-wins-nevada-caucus/

A Trump v Clinton election might be defined as a race to the bottom.

[Todd]

Trump secures some crucial support.

[Wendell_E]

I just heard some "highlights" from the most recent Republican debate.  My favorite (from Trump):

I don't repeat myself.  I don't repeat myself. 

[Turner]

Latest exclamation news:

[Karl Henning]

A lot of people go for delusional 

[Gurn Blanston]

Latest exclamation news:

Well, Donald is a boner, in a sense... oh wait, 'honer'?   

[knight66]

Latest exclamation news:

Wonder whether he meant boner? 

Mike

Gurn, I see, two minds with a single thought.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Wonder whether he meant boner? 

Mike

Gurn, I see, two minds with a single thought.

This is one case, yer honer, where British spelling has us at an advantage.

[knight66]

I do tend to like the English English spelling; even though I am so useless at it.

Mike

[Gurn Blanston]

I do tend to like the English English spelling; even though I am so useless at it.

Mike

Yes, well, one is unlikelier to go with bonour than honour!  So I prefer the Brit spelling also, although all my writing software tags it as boneheadedly incorrect...

[(poco) Sforzando]

Yes, well, one is unlikelier to go with bonour than honour!  So I prefer the Brit spelling also, although all my writing software tags it as boneheadedly incorrect...

It is possible your software has a setting to correct for either American or British usage.

[Gurn Blanston]

It is possible your software has a setting to correct for either American or British usage.

Yes, I could set up to go for one or the other, not both. Depends on your system choice, I think. With you guys I can get away with it since most of you are smart. For some others I write for, it would be mind-boggling.

Surprised there is not much here about the Christie endorsement of Trump. The newspersons think it's the news of the month. Of course, if we are going to relegate the media to the same trash heap as the establishment politicians, I guess it doesn't matter what they think.

[Todd]

Surprised there is not much here about the Christie endorsement of Trump.

Loudmouth likes loudmouth.  Maybe Christie wants to be Secretary of Transportation.

I did like the barbed zingers Rubio hurled, though I'm not sure they will win him many votes.

[drogulus]

     Bad leadership + Bad followership = extinction.

     Why have the bad leaders and bad followers who call themselves Republicans allowed their party to be taken over by Trump? Did multicultural transgender secret Muslims trap them into it? Were they somehow deceived by a pretty orange face?