2016 Republican Thread

[Brian]

He was great on Hannity tonight. A brilliant surgeon is not an incompetent boob/clown and that's how he was portrayed.

 

He can be and he is. Pyramids house grain for Jesus? Wtf

[StrangeSox]

There are long lists of reasons why both candidates are unfit. Because we are not talking legally unfit, those reasons are truly in the opinion of the person expressing them. I am as big a liberal as some on this board and I'm not dancing a jig heading to the ballot box. I'll toss out one reason why both candidates are wrong for America this decade. The President as a cheer leader for America. We are going to have four more years of a President that many people in America can not stand. Four more years of bitter partisan division. I'm not going to touch morals and ethics.

 

With that criteria, isn't Lincoln one of the most unfit for office ever in 1860? His election drove a portion of the country to start an armed insurrection over slavery that would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

 

No matter who the R's or D's nominated, many people in America would not stand them. We're a country with pretty strong party polarization these days. There's a few past Presidents with decent overall approval ratings, but there's always a sizable portion of the country (40%+) that disapprove. And for whatever it's worth, Clinton is actually starting to creep up to 50/50 favorability ratings in a few recent polls.

 

I'm not dancing a jig, either. I don't know how many "lesser evil" arguments I can post it would take to convince you guys I'm not exactly enamored with Clinton.

[Kyyle23]

He was great on Hannity tonight. A brilliant surgeon is not an incompetent boob/clown and that's how he was portrayed.

 

He was both a boob and a clown, and woefully underprepared as well as astonishingly ignorant of many things that happen outside the US.

 

And yea, any presidential candidate that thinks the pyramids are grain storage for jesus should be ushered off the stage and onto Hannity, where he can be among the rest of the boobs and clowns

[Steve9347]

no surprise but http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/05/politics/don...linkId=27314912

[CrimsonWeltall]

He was great on Hannity tonight. A brilliant surgeon is not an incompetent boob/clown and that's how he was portrayed.

 

That's what he is. Carson may be a brilliant surgeon, but he knows nothing about political issues, he's a nutjob conspiracy theorist, and has wacko religious beliefs.

[CrimsonWeltall]

With that criteria, isn't Lincoln one of the most unfit for office ever in 1860? His election drove a portion of the country to start an armed insurrection over slavery that would result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.

 

No matter who the R's or D's nominated, many people in America would not stand them. We're a country with pretty strong party polarization these days. There's a few past Presidents with decent overall approval ratings, but there's always a sizable portion of the country (40%+) that disapprove. And for whatever it's worth, Clinton is actually starting to creep up to 50/50 favorability ratings in a few recent polls.

 

I'm not dancing a jig, either. I don't know how many "lesser evil" arguments I can post it would take to convince you guys I'm not exactly enamored with Clinton.

 

If you love her so much, why don't you just marry her?

[lostfan]

We should do a poll. I'm thinking 90 to 95 percent of this board would cite itself as a Democrat. Surprises me. I did not know a majority of Sox fans were Democrats. I thought some ingrained South Siders were Republican.

Really? Cook County is one of the most hardcore Democratic strongholds in the entire country. The city hasn't had a Republican mayor in almost a century. People who grew up on the South Side are almost always Democrats.

[Quin]

Really? Cook County is one of the most hardcore Democratic strongholds in the entire country. The city hasn't had a Republican mayor in almost a century. People who grew up on the South Side are almost always Democrats.

 

This board is probably split, but Cook County is a goddamn Democratic fortress.

 

Like, we all remember the city telling Trump to f*** off, right?

 

And the fact that Obama claims it and Hillary is from there.

 

It will be a loooooong time before Chicago turns red.

[StrangeSox]

This subforum is probably 70/30 these days but there's what, 15 of us that post here regularly? Not exactly a big sample size.

[Y2HH]

Really? Cook County is one of the most hardcore Democratic strongholds in the entire country. The city hasn't had a Republican mayor in almost a century. People who grew up on the South Side are almost always Democrats.

 

Except me. I'm an anarchist.

[pettie4sox]

Republicans seriously love to throw elections.

[greg775]

He can be and he is. Pyramids house grain for Jesus? Wtf

I stand by my comment that he's brilliant. He got no positive coverage because he's Republican IMO. The media did not want to create a new Obama candidate, somebody to take the country by storm. It was Hillary's turn in the media's eyes and they want eight years of Hillary.

 

That's what he is. Carson may be a brilliant surgeon, but he knows nothing about political issues, he's a nutjob conspiracy theorist, and has wacko religious beliefs.

He's not a nutjob. You can't judge a guy off a few sound bites.

[Quin]

I stand by my comment that he's brilliant. He got no positive coverage because he's Republican IMO. The media did not want to create a new Obama candidate, somebody to take the country by storm. It was Hillary's turn in the media's eyes and they want eight years of Hillary.

 

 

He's not a nutjob. You can't judge a guy off a few sound bites.

 

lmao if the media wanted to create a new Obama candidate, Ben Carson is the exact opposite direction.

[greg775]

Yet that's EXACTLY what you are doing, Greg. How do you not see that?

 

Tell us about Ben Carson, Greg. Tell us what you know, aside from being a surgeon.

I watched a long interview with him and with a host who was not out to trap Carson or belittle Carson, he did a fine job and said many intelligent things. It's easy to pick out 1, 2 comments and make somebody a nutjob. Watch his interview on Hannity and tell me he's not a brilliant man. To think all the money he spent on a campaign that resulted in his being considered a wacky nutjob. It's unfair. He's a remarkable surgeon and American. This is why the best and brightest should never run for President. Unless you have clout and the media's backing like Hillary, you basically are ruining your life and your reputation by running.

Edited August 6, 2016 by greg775

[greg775]

It's easy to pick up 1 or 2 things and call someone a nut job, yet you can't name me one thing that makes him "remarkable", aside from appearing on FoxNews and having a medical degree. I'm waiting...

Well, I guess I'm going to have to replay the interview, cause during the whole interview I was incredibly impressed. I remember that. At this time I can't remember specific lines, since my mind is mush after watching a lot of political shoutfest shows this week as well as Olympic crap. I am a huge Carson fan now.

[CrimsonWeltall]

Ok, so while you're trying to find some interview he did with Hannity on the all crazy channel, remember...

 

He just asked the Khan family to apologize to Trump...

Joseph built the pyramids in Egypt to store grain....

That being gay must be a choice, because how do you explain guys in prison...

Evolution is 100% fake

Climate change isn't real, sometimes things get hot, sometimes things get cool...

 

This is the Ben Carson that ran for President. And that is why he got destroyed, not because of the "Main Stream Media"

 

Stop watching Fox News.

 

He also believes in all sorts of New World Order / Illuninati / secret Communists everywhere conspiracy theories. He's an idiot.

 

[CrimsonWeltall]

He's not a nutjob. You can't judge a guy off a few sound bites.

 

Of course you can. Sane, intelligent people don't make those comments.

[Y2Jimmy0]

I stand by my comment that he's brilliant. He got no positive coverage because he's Republican IMO. The media did not want to create a new Obama candidate, somebody to take the country by storm. It was Hillary's turn in the media's eyes and they want eight years of Hillary.

 

 

He's not a nutjob. You can't judge a guy off a few sound bites.

 

 

No. He got no positive coverage because he's a legit crazy person.

[Quin]

Don't forget this nugget...

 

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "I'm telling you, there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

 

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/ben-...4#ixzz4GZoVRypU

 

 

 

[CrimsonWeltall]

Don't forget this nugget...

 

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. "I'm telling you, there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first."

 

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/ben-...4#ixzz4GZoVRypU

 

And don't forget that Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery.

 

Child labor? Jim Crow? Women not being able to vote? Minor inconveniences.

[Quin]

And don't forget that Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery.

 

Child labor? Jim Crow? Women not being able to vote? Minor inconveniences.

 

Japanese internment, Vietnam War, ignoring AIDs because it was a "gay" disease.

 

Hell, I'm surprised Obamacare wasn't the worst thing since the King decided the price of tea.

[Kyyle23]

Guys guys guys, the media made Carson into this bad guy.

[greg775]

Guys guys guys, the media made Carson into this bad guy.

Yet you guys have no interest in seeing what he had to say on Hannity. The best and brightest cannot run for President anymore cause the media will not rest until all opponents of the favored Democratic candidate have been appropriately buried and tagged as nutjobs/totally unfit for office.

[Quin]

Yet you guys have no interest in seeing what he had to say on Hannity. The best and brightest cannot run for President anymore cause the media will not rest until all opponents of the favored Democratic candidate have been appropriately buried and tagged as nutjobs/totally unfit for office.

 

Would you be interested in hearing Martin O'Malley on Chris Matthews?

[Kyyle23]

Yet you guys have no interest in seeing what he had to say on Hannity. The best and brightest cannot run for President anymore cause the media will not rest until all opponents of the favored Democratic candidate have been appropriately buried and tagged as nutjobs/totally unfit for office.

 

I saw what he had to say many times, softball questions from Hannitty isn't gonna make me think he is this brilliant politician that you have convinced yourself that he is.

 

Hell, you keep talking about this interview you saw where he was great and you can't even come up with a link, you just keep repeating "HANNITTY" like that is gonna make anyone say "oh s*** well that sounds legit"