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[smjjames]

I don't think Clinton would settle for VP anyway.

O'Malley has these great rehearsed responses for questions about his less then stellar record on crime.  It's ironic because the other candidates dont have an openings to jump on him without looking like total assholes it means his weakness is his chance to stump speech.

Sanders did sling an opportunistic barb at him, 'Baltimore isn't so safe now' or something like that while talking about guns.

[mainiac]

Yeah but you'd have to get really dirty to make it a liability.  As long as O'Malley is in third place there's no way they'd resort to that.

That was clever how Clinton framed healthcare as a federal vs state control thing.

[smjjames]

Is being on the VA committee the best answer Sanders has to offer for the 'facing a crisis' question??

[mainiac]

Well, the Senate, y'know?  Getting something done in two weeks is ohshit mode.

They're really pushing them websites.

[RedKing]

I'm officially voting third party. Fuck it all.

[mainiac]

I'm officially voting third party. Fuck it all.

Have you heard the news of our lord and savior Larry Lessig?

[smjjames]

The last google news that I can find is when he dropped out, even his wiki page says nothing about running as independent. Though he has said he was thinking of going independent.

edit: Lolwut, John McAfee, creator of McAfee antivirus, is running as an independent.......

[mainiac]

Is he running independent?

No but he'll probably get more write in votes then most independents.

[RedKing]

I think I'll be voting for the ever-popular "None of the Above". Full name: "None of the Above, fuck off and die all you miserable excuses for human beings, this is why we can't have nice things because only greedy, ignorant power-hungry wretches want to be President, Esq."

My voter apathy has morphed into voter antipathy. I am actively disgusted by the democratic process.

[smjjames]

I think I'll be voting for the ever-popular "None of the Above". Full name: "None of the Above, fuck off and die all you miserable excuses for human beings, this is why we can't have nice things because only greedy, ignorant power-hungry wretches want to be President, Esq."

My voter apathy has morphed into voter antipathy. I am actively disgusted by the democratic process.

Eh? Do you not like Sanders?

[Rolepgeek]

Evil wins when good people do nothing.

Not voting at all is not actually a very effective form of protest. It's just one less vote for the least evil.

Or for that one guy who wanted election reform. Vote for him. He said we would resign once the reforms were in place. Power hungry my ass.

[TheBiggerFish]

Evil wins when good people do nothing.

Not voting at all is not actually a very effective form of protest. It's just one less vote for the least evil.

Or for that one guy who wanted election reform. Vote for him. He said we would resign once the reforms were in place. Power hungry my ass.

Really?

[Descan]

"climate change causes terrorist attacks"

- Senator Sanders 2015

(I don't remember exactly what he said, but that's the gist of what he said.)

I could get behind that. I mean, people already commit terrorism, and if their homes are flooded/otherwise destroyed because of the negligence of the [perceived] Western industrial complex, then yeah, they're gonna go a-bombing.

[Aklyon]

Evil wins when good people do nothing.

Not voting at all is not actually a very effective form of protest. It's just one less vote for the least evil.

Or for that one guy who wanted election reform. Vote for him. He said we would resign once the reforms were in place. Power hungry my ass.

Didn't that guy get kicked out of debate chances or something though?

[RedKing]

Evil wins when good people do nothing.

Not voting at all is not actually a very effective form of protest. It's just one less vote for the least evil.

Or for that one guy who wanted election reform. Vote for him. He said we would resign once the reforms were in place. Power hungry my ass.

I didn't say I wasn't voting, I said I was voting for None of the Above. Which has precisely the same electoral chances as any other third-party option -- ZERO.

Sanders seems to be the least morally reprehensible option, but not necessarily the best option or the most pragmatic. Bernie's got some good ideas and but he's got some cray-cray ones too. And let's be real here -- he ain't gonna win the nomination. It's gonna be Hillary vs. whoever bubbles out of the froth of madness that is the Republican Party, which at this stage in the game still looks like Trump.

Hillary would seem to be the better option regardless (other than maybe Kasich, but he's not going to win), but I fear that she will be such a self-fulfilling comic villain parody of "liberalism" that her successor will almost certainly be a Republican, and probably not even a good one. It's sorta like how Bush was such a clusterfuck that we were kinda ready to elect ANY Democrat. I don't think Hillary would be ineffective by any means, but I think she would alienate big swaths of the electorate and pursue heavy-handed policies that would cement the notion of Democrats as the party of the police state and actually give Republicans some claim to being "the party of freedom".