Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

http://www.vice.com/read/ted-cruz-co...rd-as-hell-122

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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

I'd vote for Rubio because he could win the national.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...etail=facebook

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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Slave(At least you and I are still handsome, unlike most of these fuckers)NoMore

2. you chubby guys don't get wrinkles

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...etail=facebook

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Wow. Dude, did you really just link to a KOS article?

I've known you well for - what, jesus, 16-17 years now. KOS? Jesus. You really do need and miss your friends with some varying opinions. Get out of the Brooklyn echo-chamber for a minute.

Were I so inclined, I could post 17,000 links from the last week demonstrating why Hillary is an anti-feminist, fascist, lying, sickly shrew, but there is no need, I wouldn't want to bore you or anyone else, nor would you particularly care.

Slave(Rubio would beat Hillary - but all of us must fear the Trump)NoMore

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Wow. Dude, did you really just link to a KOS article?

I've known you well for - what, jesus, 16-17 years now. KOS? Jesus. You really do need and miss your friends with some varying opinions. Get out of the Brooklyn echo-chamber for a minute.

Were I so inclined, I could post 17,000 links from the last week demonstrating why Hillary is an anti-feminist, fascist, lying, sickly shrew, but there is no need, I wouldn't want to bore you or anyone else, nor would you particularly care.

Slave(Rubio would beat Hillary - but all of us must fear the Trump)NoMore

You've been missed.

[Hank Chinaski]

My DIL is here from Haiti, so I am really not anti-immigration. But curious, this woman who just came here as a wife and is part of the SB massacre, she was ISIS'ed up. Is it easy to get in? Do we not vet people much?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/op...imes&smtyp=cur

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I heart this:

"Another Bush 2000 alumnus said to me: 'Why do people take such an instant dislike to Ted Cruz? It just saves time.'"

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

My DIL is here from Haiti, so I am really not anti-immigration. But curious, this woman who just came here as a wife and is part of the SB massacre, she was ISIS'ed up. Is it easy to get in? Do we not vet people much?

I think it's pretty easy to get in if you are marrying someone. IIRC, she was on a 90-day visa for people who are going to get married.

My employer is blocking me from posting at work. I can read what you all say, but I can't post. Sorry to miss out on the circle jerk yesterday, and hi, Slave.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Wow. Dude, did you really just link to a KOS article?

I've known you well for - what, jesus, 16-17 years now. KOS? Jesus. You really do need and miss your friends with some varying opinions. Get out of the Brooklyn echo-chamber for a minute.

Were I so inclined, I could post 17,000 links from the last week demonstrating why Hillary is an anti-feminist, fascist, lying, sickly shrew, but there is no need, I wouldn't want to bore you or anyone else, nor would you particularly care.

Slave(Rubio would beat Hillary - but all of us must fear the Trump)NoMore

Happy Festivus, Slave. Trump seems like your kind of guy, no?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

My employer is blocking me from posting at work.

I cannot understand this being an employee thing. Screw them.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Not impolite and I'll bite. I'd vote for Rubio because he could win the national. If he wins and taps Carly for Veep, he'd seal up 2016.

If the party has any sanity left, it will nominate Rubio. I don't know if it does.

I love parts of Cruz and parts of Paul

Heck, I love parts of Paul. Which is a pretty strong sign he's never be nominated by the GOP.

Cruz is an insane person.

"Carson...looks like a "Not Ready for Prime Time Player" when on the stage.

If Rubio is the nominee, that's going to be his challenge as well. To his credit, he's avoided that appearance in the debates thus far.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Wow. Dude, did you really just link to a KOS article?

Stop with the misdirection. If you're not arguing that he didn't say something so impossibly stupid, then you have no point.

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

I've known you well for - what, jesus, 16-17 years now. KOS? Jesus. You really do need and miss your friends with some varying opinions. Get out of the Brooklyn echo-chamber for a minute.

I haven't lived in Brooklyn in like 12 years. But my echo chamber just continues to grow because the Republican party is so off their collective rockers that no one in their right mind defends those assholes.

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Slave(Rubio would beat Hillary - but all of us must fear the Trump)NoMore

Rubio won't beat Hillary. And yes, Trump is the world's worst nightmare.

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[Adder]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Trump is the world's worst nightmare.

Trump's ceiling is around 35% of actual general election voters. That's enough to win in a three way race, but it's a lot of work to set up operations in all 50 states to run as the third guy. I think that's his only path to potential victory and I don't know if he wants to take it.

If he gets the GOP nomination, he will lose badly.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by SlaveNoMore

Not impolite and I'll bite. I'd vote for Rubio because he could win the national. If he wins and taps Carly for Veep, he'd seal up 2016.

[Going back at least 3 years, I said the nomination would come down to Rubio or Walker. Walker imploded, so I'm still 1/2]

I love parts of Cruz and parts of Paul, but they both sometimes drive me nuts and are both best served being in leadership roles in the Senate. Christie should be polling better. Carson is wonderful, nice guy - one on one he's great (which explains his popularity in Iowa), but he looks like a "Not Ready for Prime Time Player" when on the stage. He's going nowhere.

And I hate to even type this - as I've met the guy several times and abhor him - but if Trump continues this vanity run of his, he's the next POTUS.

SlaveNo[Who the hell am I kidding - I'm a BigLaw slave forever]More

I had missed this one. A leadership role in the Senate for Cruz and Paul? You've clearly been smoking some really good stuff.

Do you realize how hated and isolated Cruz is among his fellow senators, on both sides of the aisle? What leadership position do you expect him to get in the Senate?

Paul in a leadership role is mildly less laughable, but his predilection for getting into food fights with the Senior Senator from his own state, who just happens to also be the grand pooh-bah, has been a bit career limiting.

Neither of these two hold any of the 17 current leadership positions in the Senate. Maybe Paul could finagle his way into a lower rung position over the next 6 to 12 years, but Cruz? It would take a miracle.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Trump's ceiling is around 35% of actual general election voters. That's enough to win in a three way race, but it's a lot of work to set up operations in all 50 states to run as the third guy. I think that's his only path to potential victory and I don't know if he wants to take it.

If he gets the GOP nomination, he will lose badly.

I think its north of there, myself, and that if Trump were the nominee many of his current Republican detractors would quickly become apologists. Many of the Rs who really hate him are in states no R will win anyways.

But Rs keep thinking they can pull enough hate-mongering whites, often former-dems, into their voter pool to go over the top, ignoring that this is a declining constituency they have already sewn up. If Trump is the nominee, Hispanics and Women put Dems over the top in some unexpected states; Trump still wins overwhelming among white men, especially in the South, who will continue to ceaselessly whine. But Trump won't be a Goldwater (where Cruz could well be, and Carson certainly would be).