General Primary Discussion Thread

Started by Time-Immemorial212 pages

Lol, I can name about 12 other people that tried it are gone.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
It's interesting no one wants to say a word about Hilary calling black people super predators.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/02/25/black-lives-matter-unnerves-hillary-clinton-90s-race-comments-not-superpredator/

Oh, I've seen that brought up for weeks in Dem circles. It's an ignorant statement she made also from literally 20 years ago and doesn't represent her current stances or beliefs, where she's been the primary person to bring up black issues in the race and has spent many years talking with the black community. It's a black mark, but an ancient black mark, and meanwhile she's been working hand in hand with a black president for years.

I mean, think about it, it's literally a statement made before some people *who are voting this election* were actually born.

You can't win a race on what someone said 20+ years ago when they're clearly doing something different now.

Originally posted by snowdragon
Bernie needs to step up his game on Hillary.

While its great to illustrate your policy ideas its also important to show your opponents flaws.

Bernie needs to take advantage of Hillary's situation and press on her troubles while still providing solutions with his policies.

One of the issues with Hillary is, well, so many of her troubles are old news that people already know about and think aren't that big a deal.

Any issue only has so much fuel, and Hillary has been attacked heavily on pretty much all this stuff. Meanwhile, she's also showing more comprehensive knowledge of issues and showing tighter ties to the communities of many voters she's aiming for and their current concerns.

I do think a lot of people underestimate her because they focus too much on the old issues and don't even bother to look around at other factors, especially what she's currently doing.

Originally posted by Newjak
I do hate the fact that if you do not attack your opponent in some way it can be seen as such a negative against you.

Attacking doesn't have to be underhanded or anything, when you're competing against someone for the same job, pointing out their flaws and problems frankly just makes sense.

I think candidates in the running should go after each other to an extent- I mean, heck, Bernie and Hillary have been going at it for months, Sanders has no problem going after Clinton by name, the fact that Rubio is just learning what the Democrats have known since the start is sad.

Especially as Rubio has done attacking for some time, just not of *Trump*.

Rubio looks desperate.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Rubio looks desperate.

Well, he should be, he needs a break out.

I read an article awhile back that I can't find now, how he has a tendency to get very nervous when the heat's on, sometimes even when he's in a good position. Here? He's merely in a second place position, in striking range but definitely not in the lead. That is a lot pressure.

Oh, Glenn Beck thinks Rubio is doing really well.

Which is kinda funny as he's endorsed Cruz.

Beck is the guy that said Scalia's death was a gift from God to Ted Cruz. I'm not surprised he's jumped ship.

beck fake cries and is a liar

Beck is awful.

We can all agree Beck is awful, but I am seeing people say that Rubio's doing alright this time around.

beck talks like he's a good person

Heh, good line from the debate

Cruz accuses that Trump can't beat Hillary, Trump shoots back, "If I can't beat her, you're really going to get killed." 🙂

Hillary:

So far the best at creating policy to flow with polls 💃

Roses are red, violets are blue, it's time to elect a socialist Jew. Gotta love Bill Maher sometimes.

Originally posted by snowdragon
Hillary:

So far the best at creating policy to flow with polls 💃

Spot on.

So, the argument is that Hillary does what the people that elect her want too much?

What?

I think you know that isn't the specific argument. You see, Anderson Cooper wasn't getting all up in her grill because she just wants to give folks what they want. You get that, right?

Or if you were legitimately unaware of this criticism of Hilary, now you know. I've heard that is half the battle.

Originally posted by Surtur
I think you know that isn't the specific argument. You see, Anderson Cooper wasn't getting all up in her grill because she just wants to give folks what they want. You get that, right?

Or if you were legitimately unaware of this criticism of Hilary, now you know. I've heard that is half the battle.

snowdragon said this:

Originally posted by snowdragon
So far the best at creating policy to flow with polls 💃

His complaint is literally that Clinton apparently does what the people want.

Well yes that is strange, I'd thought you were commenting more on the Colbert picture.

Super Tuesday is approaching, why Rubio needed to make a name for himself and bring Trump down as low as possible. Expect Rubio's shit-slinging to only increase from here on out.

Interesting read below, apparently Rubio could lose every state on Tuesday and still have a chance of becoming the nom, even if not likely.

How Marco Rubio Could Lose Every State on Super Tuesday and Still Win <--- clicky

I don't know how Rubio could lose every state, he seems like he would have broad appeal.

It's just a 'what if'. Seems Bush dropping out hurt Trump, by giving a bump to Rubio.

I think it was OV who said it first in here long ago, Trump's massive lead is starting to disintegrate the fewer candidates there are.