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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Kidding, just kidding.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
The last time the Republicans won the presidency without someone named Nixon or Bush on the ticket was in 1928, Herbert Hoover.
Anyone know Jeb's phone number?Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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Clinton/Warren 2016 has a nice ring to it.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9199 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2
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How about Feingold/Warren or
Warren/Feingold either way. Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
I'd vote for any of the above.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Keep an eye on the new kid in the 'hood, Julin Castro.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
jar writes: Keep an eye on the new kid in the 'hood, Julin Castro. Took some research--I tend to avoid the textual morasses of Texas politics But I like the cut of his jib. I'd see him as a great VP candidate in 2016 or 2020. The Democratic bench is remarkably deep, diverse and cause for hope."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Taq Member Posts: 10084 Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
A Clinton/Pelosi ticket would offer some great entertainment for those who like to watch Republicans go into uncontrolled apoplectic fits. Even better would be a Clinton/Barney Frank ticket.
But probably Clinton/(safe moderate white younger male from swing state) will be the Dem ticket. There was no clear 2nd place in the Republican primaries this time around, so they will probably lean towards a newcomer. Methinks Pawlenty purposefully sat out this race knowing that it was unwinnable for Republicans. A governor usually needs a DC insider as running mate, so take your pick of upper echelon Rep. senators.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 312 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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Methinks Pawlenty purposefully sat out this race knowing that it was unwinnable for Republicans. He competed. He achieved nothing in the primaries. He dropped out. He endorsed Romney. And he did so in such a blaze of obscurity that you didn't even notice. So I don't think he has much hope next time around. As I said at the time, no-one called Tim will ever achieve greatness. With a first name like that, the best one can aim for is mild niceness. I don't say it's right, that's just how the world works. You might as well be called Jeremy.
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hooah212002 Member (Idle past 829 days) Posts: 3193 Joined:
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As I said at the time, no-one called Tim will ever achieve greatness Tim MinchinTim Lincecum Tim Duncan Tim Hardaway Tim Jennings Maybe you should say "no politician named Tim shall achieve greatness"."Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off." -Dawkins
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4046 Joined: Member Rating: 7.4
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As I said at the time, no-one called Tim will ever achieve greatness. With a first name like that, the best one can aim for is mild niceness. I don't say it's right, that's just how the world works. You might as well be called Jeremy. The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds ofvariously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
IMHO Obama has a pretty clear agenda for the second term.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Nancy Pelosi certainly has all the basics needed for a politician and the D'Alesandro clan always wanted a President in the family. A Nancy Pelosi/Julin Castro ticket or Clinton/Pelosi ticket would certainly jump start the electoral vote count.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9199 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
Pawlenty is a light weight that wouldn't even be able to win his home state in a presidential election. he probably wouldn't be able to win MN in a primary even. He has high disapproval ratings in the state
quote:Source He is cut form the same religious nutjob conservatism as Romney and Santorum. He isn't going to be a candidate for much in the future.Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1283 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Marco Rubio is heading to Iowa next week.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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