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[Arx]

intelligence

This was your first mistake.

Actually, though, I'm reasonably confident that she's fairly intelligent and simply has no intention of winning. Those book deals and talk show appearances aren't going to motivate themselves, you know.

I was being sarcastic, although it's nice to have confirmation.

[Bauglir]

Moved this edit down here since you'd already replied:

In the interests of actually answering the question, she's fairly conservative but she tends to base the things she says entirely on stereotypes and vague generalities. Getting her to say something specific is hard, her reasoning tends to be purely impulsive, and she has a great talent for gaffes.

[Arx]

Ah, I see. Thank you.

[Karlito]

What, is she on another book tour or something? I'm betting she doesn't actually run.

[SalmonGod]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is great news for comedy!

Could someone give me a brief on Palin? The name is familiar but I have no idea what her particular brand of intelligence is.

This is the best brief on Sarah Palin.

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Can anyone else catch the highly relevant foreboding comment in this exchange?

[FearfulJesuit]

Potato.

Speaking of which, since 2016 is apparently a bad mash-up fanfiction of every campaign of the last two decades, can we drag Dan Quayle out of retirement?

[freeformschooler]

Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden
Elizabeth Warren

Jeb Bush
Rick Santorum
Chris Christie
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Mitt "Mittens" Romney
Sarah Palin

It's like Fantasy Football but with politicians.

[smjjames]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is great news for comedy!

Could someone give me a brief on Palin? The name is familiar but I have no idea what her particular brand of intelligence is.

This is the best brief on Sarah Palin.

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Can anyone else catch the highly relevant foreboding comment in this exchange?

Palin? Now it's going to be FUN.

Also, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney had a secret (well, secret as in closed doors, the fact that they were having a meeting wasn't a secret) meeting in Utah. No idea if they're planning on a possible Bush-Romney ticket or an alliance of some sort, but way too early to know.

[Frumple]

... well, the rant on Jeb and education got shanghai'd, so I figure I'll ask the question again: How the hell has Jeb scraped together a positive notation in regards to education? Like, I'm asking who's saying this, where they're from, and what they're using to justify the position.

Because insofar as I'm aware, everything education related Jeb has touched has basically turned to shit, and his reputation among educators in Florida is just freaking terrible. Most everyone related to the education system that's actually aware of what he did, really. Administrators, students, teachers, parents, related institutions (libraries and whatnot that are involved with schools)... this guy basically pissed off everyone and shat all over 'em. It's been years since the blighter buggered off and I still hear hateful invocations related to the bastard.

[smjjames]

Well, to speak for myself, before you and some other people explained it, all I knew about Jeb Bush is that he's G.W. Bush's younger brother and used to be the governor of Florida.

Just wait until the campaigns get rolling and the digging REALLY begins.

[bahihs]

I heard about that. From what I read, it's basically a giant scam.

Politics in a nutshell

[misko27]

So I looked to Wikipedia for information who is actually currently running on the democratic ticket.

Jeff Boss
Conspiracy theorist and perennial candidate from New Jersey

Boss filed as a 2016 candidate in 2012.[1]
Vermin Supreme
Performance artist and perennial candidate from Massachusetts
(Website)

Vermin Supreme    Supreme initially announced his intention to run in 2016 during his 2012 presidential campaign.[2] He confirmed his candidacy in May 2014[3][4]
Robby Wells
Former head football coach at Savannah State University; Candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Constitution Party

Wells declared his 2016 presidential candidacy in November 2012.[5] After initially announcing he would run as an independent candidate, Wells later declared his intentions to instead seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Jim Webb has an exploratory committee, so it's not entirely a clown show. Still, I think a democratic debate would clear things up: Football coach, Vermin Supreme, or "NSA did 9/11" truther? The options.

[Bauglir]

I voted for Vermin Supreme last time. True story. We'll soon see if the field is equally disappointing this time around.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's kind of disturbing how much I'm not joking when I say I want Vermin Supreme to be President of the United States.

[smjjames]

The dems are kind of stuck in the 'is hillary going to run, y/n' loop. They'd better get started before the republicans get a good head start on them. Also, Misko, you should have gone to the page for the candidates for the two parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016

Also, apparently Donald Trump has expressed intrest. No, just no. Also, when he made a stab at it the previous time (never got to the debates though), it sounded initially like he has some good ideas, but he quickly came off as a jerk.

The democratic potential lineup seems a whole lot smaller for some reason or other.