2016 Presidential Campaign

[swake]

Don't worry your little head. Much like Herman Cain (a man I've actually met), the left decided Carson's fate long before he could ever mount any challenge. He represents everything that the left reviles.

He is America; hard-working, successful, morally conservative, religious, and independent of thought.  As I said above, he is not a politician so he is prone to speak his mind, his faith, and openly defend his philosophies.  To the left he is a unicorn. An anomaly that should not exist.

Your response was perfect.  

Not even going to defend the outright crazy of what he says then?

[heironymouspasparagus]

He is America; hard-working, successful, morally conservative, religious, and independent of thought.  As I said above, he is not a politician so he is prone to speak his mind, his faith, and openly defend his philosophies.  To the left he is a unicorn. An anomaly that should not exist.

A male Sarah Palin.  When asked if we should defend the Baltic states if Russia invades them....  He didn't even know that they are NATO members!!  Yep, "hard-working, successful, morally conservative, religious, and independent of thought" - especially any thought that might involve intellect, just like Sarah!

[Townsend]

Not even going to defend the outright crazy of what he says then?

That is not an ability he possesses.

But to Gaspar's defense, it's not an ability anyone possesses.

[Hoss]

Ok, I'll start a few of his cra-cra ramblings.

*  In 2013, said that the ACA (you righies know it as 'Obamacare') was the worse thing to happen to America since slavery.
*  Said prisoners come out of prison gay.
*  Believed that the VA scandal was a 'gift from God' to demonstrate how evil 'Obamacare' is.
*  Suggested that people who studied an AP history course might be 'ready to go sign up for ISIS'.

Keep in mind, this is a neurosurgeon.

[Gaspar]

Cain was immediately branded a racist, who engaged in slave labor.  As he neared the primary, he was far worse.

If he makes the mistake and runs, Carson will be kin to a modern Hitler by primary season.  All of the might of the liberal media is bent on proving that unicorns are make believe.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Cain was immediately branded a racist, who engaged in slave labor.  As he neared the primary, he was far worse.

If he makes the mistake and runs, Carson will be kin to a modern Hitler by primary season.  All of the might of the liberal media is bent on proving that unicorns are make believe.

As in the hatchet job the RWRE has tried to do on Obama?

At least Obama is an American citizen, whose father may not have been a citizen, but who was at least passive - as opposed to one candidate's father who actively supported and fought with a Communist regime just 90 miles from the US mainland!!

The Republicontins just keep on keeping on with the psychotic and half the American people just can't seem to break their addiction to the crazy.  What's your excuse/reason/rationalization??

[swake]

Cain was immediately branded a racist, who engaged in slave labor.  As he neared the primary, he was far worse.

If he makes the mistake and runs, Carson will be kin to a modern Hitler by primary season.  All of the might of the liberal media is bent on proving that unicorns are make believe.

Defend his actual quotes or shut up.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Wonder how many will pull a Herman Cain and dismiss Uzbekistan as an insignificant little country with no meaning to the US.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/herman-cain-thinks-uzbekistan-doesnt-matter-hes-wrong/11989/

And Uzbekistan is reportedly now joining the Russians along the Afghan border to fight the Taliban and ISIS.......

Troops from Russia and Uzbekistan are helping Turkmenistan guard its border against militant incursions from Afghanistan, an Turkmenistani exile website reports, citing residents of border areas.

According to the report on Chronicles of Turkmenistan, "residents of Afghan border villages have recently noticed the presence on Turkmen territory border units from Uzbekistan." And it added: "About a month ago military instructors from Russia also appeared on the border. Obviously, the Turkmen authorities appealed to the Russian leadership for help guarding the border with Afghanistan, a situation where, with the arrival of warm weather, has begun to heat up."

Turkmenistan has been taking various aggressive steps to address the rise of Taliban and (some claim) ISIS units in the northern provinces of Afghanistan bordering Turkmenistan. Those steps reportedly include mobilizing reserve troops and carrying out incursions into Afghan territory. However, they have seemed to be trying to prosecute the fight on their own, without any other country's help.

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/72686

[RecycleMichael]

 I personally like Ben Carson, but he's not a politician and hasn't lived his life in a way that would allow him to transition into that pit of fire and lies. 

http://samuel-warde.com/2014/07/startling-hypocrisy-conservative-icon-dr-ben-carson/

http://www.mediaite.com/online/ben-carson-caught-plagiarizing-from-socialismsucks-net/

http://www.nationalmemo.com/dr-ben-carson-sinks-to-a-new-low/

[Jammie]

I have a problem with how far Right Cruz is, he says wants to appeal to concervatives but I don't fall in line with the Falwell/Robertson/700 Club conservatives. (Or can I call them Looney's?)

Also he's going for the bait and switch saying he will repeal every word of ACA, which he has to know can't be done, and then will say well it's more difficult than we thought.

As for Palin, hasn't she passed her expiration date by a couple of years, to the point where she's like the left overs in the fridge at work that no one claims, and no one can identify?

AND the funny part is that since Mrs. Cruz is now taking time off from Goldman/Sachs and will no longer be on their group insurance, the Cruz family is now on Obamacare/ACA.  That's where Congress is required to go. No worries though since it's actually very misunderstood. As you know, it's not one huge company of insurance called, "Obamacare." (You'd be surprised at how many people still believe that.) It's an exchange of the companies in the area/state. Cruz will get no subsidy and the good thing is special interest groups were banned from contributing to the premiums of those in Congress, although they offered. That was a huge reason they were protesting it...no goodies for themselves.

I personally wasn't sure that Cruz was even qualified to run since his mother was a U.S. citizen and his father was a Cuban citizen and he was born in Canada.  The father did have a green card and there is a law that was written in 1790 and changed in 1795. I thought it was confusing and open to interpretation, but he very well may qualify to run. Just hilarious considering all of the, "Where's the birth certificate" bumper stickers that were around in 07/08/09. I hope they kept them on their cars because the same can be said now and I'd hate for anyone to have to go out and buy a new one.

The best comment I've seen so far about the Cruz run was when someone posted, "He needs to follow in his dad's footsteps and start a church in south Texas. We have a lot of those crazies down here."

[Hoss]

AND the funny part is that since Mrs. Cruz is now taking time off from Goldman/Sachs and will no longer be on their group insurance, the Cruz family is now on Obamacare/ACA.  That's where Congress is required to go. No worries though since it's actually very misunderstood. As you know, it's not one huge company of insurance called, "Obamacare." (You'd be surprised at how many people still believe that.) It's an exchange of the companies in the area/state. Cruz will get no subsidy and the good thing is special interest groups were banned from contributing to the premiums of those in Congress, although they offered. That was a huge reason they were protesting it...no goodies for themselves.

I personally wasn't sure that Cruz was even qualified to run since his mother was a U.S. citizen and his father was a Cuban citizen and he was born in Canada.  The father did have a green card and there is a law that was written in 1790 and changed in 1795. I thought it was confusing and open to interpretation, but he very well may qualify to run. Just hilarious considering all of the, "Where's the birth certificate" bumper stickers that were around in 07/08/09. I hope they kept them on their cars because the same can be said now and I'd hate for anyone to have to go out and buy a new one.

The best comment I've seen so far about the Cruz run was when someone posted, "He needs to follow in his dad's footsteps and start a church in south Texas. We have a lot of those crazies down here."

Except that now he's evidently 'walked back' those comments on signing up for the ACA.

His entry into the fray hasn't been exactly smooth.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-obamacare-116408.html#ixzz3VUxAYiF3

[Jammie]

Except that now he's evidently 'walked back' those comments on signing up for the ACA.

His entry into the fray hasn't been exactly smooth.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/ted-cruz-obamacare-116408.html#ixzz3VUxAYiF3

Very interesting.

I like this part..."Cruz, meanwhile, slammed the media coverage of his family's health care dilemma, saying the mainstream media is playing "gotcha games." He doesn't think he and his entire family won't be in the spotlight if he runs? He doesn't feel that he and his cohorts don't play "Gotcha games" with those who don't agree with them?

I also love his integrity by refusing to accept an "Obama subsidy." We all know that he doesn't even qualify for one so he's basically turning down what he wasn't going to get in the first place since you can only earn 400% above the poverty level in order to even qualify for one. He's WAY over that. He's pretty easy to see through, but he does read a good bedtime story.

If he goes to the private market, his costs will be very similar to what he's going to find on the Exchange, unless he can find a company that didn't join the Exchange and will give him a good price. I love how people like him who've had cushy insurance their entire lives want to deprive everyone else of even being able to buy insurance since that's how it was in the past. (Pre-existing conditions) Now he's trying to get COBRA from his wife's job? What a man! At least this has made things easy for me. He won't even hit my radar when it's election time.

[swake]

Very interesting.

I like this part..."Cruz, meanwhile, slammed the media coverage of his family's health care dilemma, saying the mainstream media is playing "gotcha games." He doesn't think he and his entire family won't be in the spotlight if he runs? He doesn't feel that he and his cohorts don't play "Gotcha games" with those who don't agree with them?

I also love his integrity by refusing to accept an "Obama subsidy." We all know that he doesn't even qualify for one so he's basically turning down what he wasn't going to get in the first place since you can only earn 400% above the poverty level in order to even qualify for one. He's WAY over that. He's pretty easy to see through, but he does read a good bedtime story.

If he goes to the private market, his costs will be very similar to what he's going to find on the Exchange, unless he can find a company that didn't join the Exchange and will give him a good price. I love how people like him who've had cushy insurance their entire lives want to deprive everyone else of even being able to buy insurance since that's how it was in the past. (Pre-existing conditions) Now he's trying to get COBRA from his wife's job? What a man! At least this has made things easy for me. He won't even hit my radar when it's election time.

He may be refusing the "Obama" subsidy, but is he going to refuse his employer(US Government) subsidy?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Being the son of a Cuban revolutionary - whose father fought on Fidel Castro's side during their revolution, and not being an actual natural born citizen, therefore ineligible to be President, you would think all those upstanding paragons of virtue in the RWRE would be telling him to sit down and shut up and quit making even bigger fools of the Republicontins than he already has....

[carltonplace]

Rubio is in now.