Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[Todd]

Love fest!

[snyprrr]

Cruz outed as the "m@son's choice"- did you see his "napoleon salute" during the pledge??

and then Paul mentioned the "secret handshake" between dem and repub....

mm hmm

[Karl Henning]

Welcome back, snypsss.

[Abuelo Igor]

We have a presidential election in Spain, too. This happened yesterday during the campaign:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/spanish-pm-punched-during-election-walkabout

[Florestan]

We have a presidential election in Spain, too.

Really? I must have missed the proclamation of the Third Spanish Republic... 

[drogulus]

     

     

     

[Karl Henning]

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham suspends presidential campaign

[Karl Henning]

Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign has slashed senior staffer's salaries, a move that comes amid the former Arkansas governor's struggles to gain traction in his second White House bid.

[Karl Henning]

How [guess who?] has shaken the Republican Party

Yet, at the same time, [El Tupé] also embodies the headlong race toward the politics of fear . . . .

[Brian]

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham suspends presidential campaign

For the record, this means that there are now 0 Republican candidates left whose climate change plan is something other than "buy a couple new tank top shirts".

[drogulus]

     

     Republicans find consensus candidate to oppose Trump

     Analysts say "baggage" won't harm viability

     

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

For the record, this means that there are now 0 Republican candidates left whose climate change plan is something other than "buy a couple new tank top shirts".

  If, indeed, one can smile at this.  Do they have a plan for anything? Beyond destroying the middle class, that is.  So much seems sleight of hand, sound bite, sucker born every minutey...

[Abuelo Igor]

Really? I must have missed the proclamation of the Third Spanish Republic... 

We have local elections too, to choose the people who run for office at the town hall and the regional government. As someone I know usually says, your attempt at cleverness is duly noted. 

As for the Third Spanish Republic, we never lose hope.

[Daverz]

     

     Republicans find consensus candidate to oppose Trump

     Analysts say "baggage" won't harm viability

     

Karellen, an Overlord from the new SyFy production of Childhood's End  (that's Charles Dance under all that makeup!).  The Overlords are supposedly benevolent, so I imagine they would be too far to the left of the Republican base. 

http://www.shmoop.com/childhoods-end/karellen-overlords.html

[Todd]

For the record, this means that there are now 0 Republican candidates left whose climate change plan is something other than "buy a couple new tank top shirts".

Not true.  George Pataki favors market based solutions (eg, carbon trading), admits that climate change is real, and was, by current campaign standards, nearly a pinko at one point on the topic.  (Sure, he has missed filing deadlines in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, but he's still in it to win it!)  If he stays in, he will get 17 votes. 

John Kasich has waffled mightily on the subject.  If he stays in, he will get 117 votes.

[Brian]

Okay, you got me. I forgot George Pataki was running in this race. 

[Daverz]

Not true.  George Pataki

[Turner]

As a side remark, it can be a peculiar experience reading about the money and business relations involved among US candidates.

Here´s a photo of the house of our local current PM; he is right-wing and ardently associated with the main business-sector orientated party, but has a rather non-successful personal economy, including debt:

[The new erato]

And here's our prime minister at home:



Definitely "of the people, for the people", a concept I strongly believe in, even though I didn't vote for her.

[Florestan]

We have local elections too, to choose the people who run for office at the town hall and the regional government. As someone I know usually says, your attempt at cleverness is duly noted. 

The only cleverness was that of those who drafted the post-Franco Spanish Constitution. They probably thought that substituting "president of the government" for "prime minister" is republican enough.  But there is the whole difference in the world between being president of the Spanish government (ie prime minister of Spain) and being president of Spain.