2016 Likely Candidates for POTUS?

[pate]

Biden and his butt buddy for Prez 2016!!


http://youtu.be/hNxYLgUgO1Y

Ah, Biden.  He never fails to deliver, that's for sure.  That is, unless you send him somewhere to negotiate a Status Of Forces Agreement...


I am sofa king we todd it!

[yumyumtree]

Just how old is Biden, anyway?  It seems kind of a double standard for people to tsk-tsk about Hillary's age, when he must be as old.

[VtaGeezer]

Just how old is Biden, anyway?  It seems kind of a double standard for people to tsk-tsk about Hillary's age, when he must be as old.

He's in his 70s.  I think/hope the era of old presidents is over.  Too many changes in the world that the over-60 simply can't assimilate.  That goes for Hillary too.  We tried the dynasty thing in 2000 and look what it got us. 

[ge30542]

I think if Hillary is lukewarm early, Liz Warren will challenge her from the Left.

[VtaGeezer]

I think if Hillary is lukewarm early, Liz Warren will challenge her from the Left.

I doubt it.  She knows; barring some huge surprise, that a Dem can't win in '16.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

Anyone you think will run (either party)?  Anyone you think is already history?

I don't think Newt will run again.  That dog won't hunt.  I hope a Trump doesn't throw his ugly-ass toupe into the ring.  I don't think Sarah will go all in (just threaten a bit)....

i'll vote for the candidate that moons all the others during a televised debate. speaking of televised debates... you know those are game shows..... right? 

[Up All Night]

"In a carefully staged but endearing Bush family moment, former first lady Barbara Bush cleared the path for another son to run for president by announcing that she no longer believes too many Bushes have served in the White House. “I’ve changed my mind,” she said."

Well, there you go ! ! !


http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-14/barbara-bush-on-jeb-i-ve-changed-my-mind-

[PB the Deplorable]

"In a carefully staged but endearing Bush family moment, former first lady Barbara Bush cleared the path for another son to run for president by announcing that she no longer believes too many Bushes have served in the White House. “I’ve changed my mind,” she said."...

The rest of us haven't

[Gd5150]

Too many changes in the world that the over-60 simply can't assimilate.

Couldn't be more wrong. We've done so well when we've elected presidents who were more concerned with hooking up with 20yo interns and having Beyonce concerts in the white house. No one under 60 is mature enough to be president. Men in their 40s have the wrong priorities to be president. They're still trying look cool and score with the ladies. When you're a grandparent your priorities change and leaving the best possible future for your grand kids and their kids is all the matters. Not interns and rock concerts and landing on aircraft carriers.

I will agree we don't need anymore establishment politicians in the White House or Congress. They're the real reason our county and economy is in an endless depression. They're totally out of touch with reality.

[PB the Deplorable]

... No one under 60 is mature enough to be president. Men in their 40s have the wrong priorities to be president. They're still trying look cool...

Well, Obama was 48 when he took office. 

Oh, wait..

[136 or 142]

Webb Not Sure He Can Raise the Money

February 16, 2015 By Taegan Goddard
Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (D), “exploring a possible 2016 presidential campaign, said he is in the process of deciding whether he can “put together the type of money” needed and still remain independent of special interests,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Webb “said his chief political dilemma is building a realistic campaign without becoming beholden to donors in an era where the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has allowed individual donors to give millions to support campaigns.”

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

In a world of social media, shouldn't it be possible for third party candidates and independents to compete without huge advertising budgets and multi-million dollar bribes from future lobbyists?

[VtaGeezer]

In a world of social media, shouldn't it be possible for third party candidates and independents to compete without huge advertising budgets and multi-million dollar bribes from future lobbyists?

No.  Obama was in a unique position to get millennials out to vote.  No one in the 2016 mix (yet) that can do that.  I'd guess that a lot Oct 2016 commercial slots are already spoken for by the Rs or the Ds; the name will be filled in later.  Oct 2016 going to be throw-yer-shoe-at-the-TV month.

[qaddisin]

In a world of social media, shouldn't it be possible for third party candidates and independents to compete without huge advertising budgets and multi-million dollar bribes from future lobbyists?

Maybe they should do a Kickstarter or Patreon account?

[VtaGeezer]

The two cocks Kochs are backing Walker. They and their cronies are putting up $900 Million. More than either party. Game. Set. Match. Jeb's going to be humiliated. And then Hillary. And then, the rest of us.

Bumping my own comment.  Now that it's out that Walker is a college drop-out with no degree that probably makes him a shoo-in. 

[136 or 142]

Bumping my own comment.  Now that it's out that Walker is a college drop-out with no degree that probably makes him a shoo-in.

It's been known for a long time, it's not like Walker ever hid it.  Walker claims that he left college because he was offered a job, but there are rumors that he left college under much darker circumstances.  I don't believe the allegations have ever been proven though.

Personally I don't care that he didn't get a degree.  The only purposes of college except for people who use their degrees in their jobs are:
1.To obtain a body of knowledge
2.To show that a person has an ability to complete something

I don't know about Walker's knowledge, but he's clearly shown in his political life that he has an ability to complete things.

[VtaGeezer]

It's been known for a long time, it's not like Walker ever hid it.  Walker claims that he left college because he was offered a job, but there are rumors that he left college under much darker circumstances.  I don't believe the allegations have ever been proven though.

Personally I don't care that he didn't get a degree.  The only purposes of college except for people who use their degrees in their jobs are:
1.To obtain a body of knowledge
2.To show that a person has an ability to complete something

I don't know about Walker's knowledge, but he's clearly shown in his political life that he has an ability to complete things.

QED

[FightTheFuture]

Scott Walker has driven a stake through the hearts of liberals...three times! Democrats fear Scott Walker. Thus, the smear merchants will ply their craft with unprecedented vigor and enmity.

[VtaGeezer]

Scott Walker has driven a stake through the hearts of liberals...three times! Democrats fear Scott Walker. Thus, the smear merchants will ply their craft with unprecedented vigor and enmity.

QED X2. 

[VtaGeezer]

Today Jeb Bush reiterated that he's his own man by naming Paul Wolfowitz, Mike Chertoff and Mike Hayden to be his foreign affairs advisors.

[albrecht]

Today Jeb Bush reiterated that he's his own man by naming Paul Wolfowitz, Mike Chertoff and Mike Hayden to be his foreign affairs advisors.

Great. Just great. sigh. Let's hope he doesn't get the nod.

[FightTheFuture]

Today Jeb Bush reiterated that he's his own man by naming Paul Wolfowitz, Mike Chertoff and Mike Hayden to be his foreign affairs advisors.

LOL!!!1

God help us. Not another Bush.


*Atheist version* Illuminati/Bilderbergers/Free masons please don't ordain another Bush.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

LOL!!!1

God help us. Not another Bush.


*Atheist version* Illuminati/Bilderbergers/Free masons please don't ordain another Bush.

Ronald Reagan really is starting to look pretty good.

[Ruteger]

Progressives rejoice! If the GOP nominates JBush in 2016 I will NEVER vote GOP again. This Independent/Conservative will either stay home or write in another candidate for POTUS, and you will be able to destroy the USA far ahead of schedule...

[VtaGeezer]

Scott Walker showed yesterday that he's truly a small minded hack when he said that "taking on" public employee unions exemplifies how he's ready to deal with ISIL.  "If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world" says this puffed-up jerk.

Shame on the mouthbreathers of CPAC for cheering rhetoric that equated union teachers and highway workers carrying placards in Wisconsin to the terrorist butchers in Iraq and Syria.  This, while the conservative clowns in the House are holding the nation's primary security institution hostage for more anti-Obama symbolism. 

[FightTheFuture]

Scott Walker showed yesterday that he's truly a small minded hack when he said that "taking on" public employee unions exemplifies how he's ready to deal with ISIL.  "If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world" says this puffed-up jerk.

Shame on the mouthbreathers of CPAC for cheering rhetoric that equated union teachers and highway workers carrying placards in Wisconsin to the terrorist butchers in Iraq and Syria.  This, while the conservative clowns in the House are holding the nation's primary security institution hostage for more anti-Obama symbolism.

Oh, good grief lol. I watched his speech. It was, at worst, a clumsy, somewhat vague, analogy. Give the kid a break, Geezer.

[ItsOver]

Progressives rejoice! If the GOP nominates JBush in 2016 I will NEVER vote GOP again. This Independent/Conservative will either stay home or write in another candidate for POTUS, and you will be able to destroy the USA far ahead of schedule...

Bush, Clinton, or Warren.  That'll help drive another nail in the coffin.  I'm pretty much convinced this country of morons will have to reach rock-bottom before it wakes-up. 

[PB the Deplorable]

Bush, Clinton, or Warren.  That'll help drive another nail in the coffin.  I'm pretty much convinced this country of morons will have to reach rock-bottom before it wakes-up.

I realized it was over when even Ronald Reagan could not reduce the size of government. 

It's only a matter of time.  People like George W Bush and - even more so - Barrack Obama only sped up the process

[ItsOver]

I realized it was over when even Ronald Reagan could not reduce the size of government. 

It's only a matter of time.  People like George W Bush and - even more so - Barrack Obama only sped up the process

Yes.  I'm not sure if we'll reach the bottom in my lifetime but it's full speed ahead in that direction. 

[VtaGeezer]

Give the kid a break, Geezer.

Nope. It was clearly a prepared line that only a thoughtless jerk would use. A statesman would have reassigned the fool who wrote it to the luggage van. Walker is a drab, humorless minor leaguer whose campaign chest and PR have outrun his ideology-limited IQ.