GOP Primary Megathread III: Third Time's A Charm

[Alien Space Bats]

To Trump supporters here: Why do you support him?

He tells it like it is. He dominates that category of speaking. The other candidates are full of spin or scripted answers.

"Tells it like it is?" The man lies like a Persian rug.

[Khadgar]

He tells it like it is. He dominates that category of speaking. The other candidates are full of spin or scripted answers.

"Tells it like it is?" The man lies like a Persian rug.

You give him far too much credit. He's not that classy. He's a Chinese knockoff of a Persian rug.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

To Trump supporters here: Why do you support him?

He tells it like it is. He dominates that category of speaking. The other candidates are full of spin or scripted answers.

Surely, it would be such a bad thing to break the narrative

[Romalae]

First national poll since the Ides of March Primaries and Marco Rubio's demise:

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Trump 43 — Cruz 28 — Kasich 21
Rasmussen Reports

Seems like Kasich picked up all of Rubio's supporters.

For the most part, anyway. Unfortunately, his huge delegate deficit is insurmountable at this point. I don't think it changes anything that insiders think Kasich is the most likely of the three to win a contested convention, given that he would be palatable to greater swathes of delegates. It's still probably a lost cause, and Trump's and Cruz's people are already saying that they will use their delegate dominance to box Kasich out of the convention in the first place.

[Alien Space Bats]

You give him far too much credit. He's not that classy. He's a Chinese knockoff of a Persian rug.

I thought about that. But cheap rugs don't always lie completely flat, so I felt the comparison with the finer rug was appropriate.

[Idzequitch]

You give him far too much credit. He's not that classy. He's a Chinese knockoff of a Persian rug.

I thought about that. But cheap rugs don't always lie completely flat, so I felt the comparison with the finer rug was appropriate.

The cheap rug lies on his head.

[AiliailiA]

He tells it like it is. He dominates that category of speaking. The other candidates are full of spin or scripted answers.

Surely, it would be such a bad thing to break the narrative

Feb 1: "So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him ... I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees; I promise, I promise."
Mar 15: "I didn't say I would pay for his fees"

No tomato, no promise. He's in the clear

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Surely, it would be such a bad thing to break the narrative

Feb 1: "So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him ... I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees; I promise, I promise."
Mar 15: "I didn't say I would pay for his fees"

No tomato, no promise. He's in the clear

Tomato, tomatoe

[New Jerzylvania]

If Trump's the nominee, how about a Hillary-Kasich ticket on the other side?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2016.html

[Ashmoria]

If Trump's the nominee, how about a Hillary-Kasich ticket on the other side?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2016.html

no

[Eol Sha]

If Trump's the nominee, how about a Hillary-Kasich ticket on the other side?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2016.html

Please don't do that.

[New Jerzylvania]

If Trump's the nominee, how about a Hillary-Kasich ticket on the other side?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2016.html

no

[New Jerzylvania]

If Trump's the nominee, how about a Hillary-Kasich ticket on the other side?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -2016.html

Please don't do that.

It'd be one ticket for the ages, that's for sure.

[AiliailiA]

If you want four years solid of Republicans trying to impeach Clinton so they can have a Republican president instead, yeah great idea.

[Eol Sha]

Please don't do that.

It'd be one ticket for the ages, that's for sure.

Maybe if there's a civil war. Otherwise, no, don't do that. Kasich doesn't need to be anywhere near the White House.

[Salandriagado]

You give him far too much credit. He's not that classy. He's a Chinese knockoff of a Persian rug.

I thought about that. But cheap rugs don't always lie completely flat, so I felt the comparison with the finer rug was appropriate.

But Trump doesn't lie well either. He just does it a lot.

[New Jerzylvania]

If you want four years solid of Republicans trying to impeach Clinton so they can have a Republican president instead, yeah great idea.

They'd likely lose the Senate anyway if this ticket occurred.

They are defending 24 seats this cycle to the Dems' ten seats, might lose it anyway.

A ticket like this would shake the foundations of the current gridlock.

I didn't write the article, but the idea is totaly mind blowing as to whether it could save us all from our horrible partisanship or to the contrary hasten the complete demise of our political system.

[Blakk Metal]

Because he makes alot of the people in power squirm that I want to squirm.

If it's an anti-establishment sentiment that guides you... why vote for someone who has been a part of the establishment his whole life? Trump is not a revolutionary from the American political underground. He's a multimillionaire who's repeatedly stood beside establishment politicians, and appears to have only decided to "go rogue" in the least underdog-ish way imaginable when his ego finally got the best of him.

But Donald Trump isn't gonna win, so his idiocy is irrelevant.

[Zeanobia]

"I am a liberal and I might vote for Trump"

[Philjia]

"I am a liberal and I might vote for Trump"

I don't get why people hate Hillary so much. Yes, she's vacuous, yes, she's oily, yes, her policies are uncompromising where they should be compromising and vice versa, yes, there's something indefinable but off-putting about her, but the level of hatred republicans have for her baffles me.

[AiliailiA]

Funny thing I noticed: the GOP rule that any nominee must win 8 states ... includes territories.
Kasich won DC, taking him to 2 states or territories.
Oops no. Rubio won DC I just forgot him. Kasich on 1 and it's hard to see another 7 for him.

There's only one remaining (American Samoa on Tuesday).

[Geilinor]

"I am a liberal and I might vote for Trump"

In my mind, if someone won't vote for the more liberal candidate, they were never really a liberal in the first place, at the risk of making a No True Scotsman.

[Philjia]

"I am a liberal and I might vote for Trump"

In my mind, if someone won't vote for the more liberal candidate, they were never really a liberal in the first place, at the risk of making a No True Scotsman.

There were some conservatives here who wanted to vote Hillary because she's not Trump.

[Washington Resistance Army]

"I am a liberal and I might vote for Trump"

I don't get why people hate Hillary so much. Yes, she's vacuous, yes, she's oily, yes, her policies are uncompromising where they should be compromising and vice versa, yes, there's something indefinable but off-putting about her, but the level of hatred republicans have for her baffles me.

Because literally everything about her is so easy to hate, duh.

[Geilinor]

In my mind, if someone won't vote for the more liberal candidate, they were never really a liberal in the first place, at the risk of making a No True Scotsman.

There were some conservatives here who wanted to vote Hillary because she's not Trump.

Trump could be a special case because he's been almost every ideology under the sun.