Topic: Primary Wars (Read 45816 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #360 on:** May 16, 2008, 04:48:31 PM »

"... and Nixon did.

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WAIT WAIT, UH, SORRY LET ME TRY THAT AGAIN."

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Kevin, you're in a hole. Stop digging.

Man, that video is composed of awesome and win.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #361 on:** May 17, 2008, 09:56:58 AM »

There's always the hope that all the incompetent Democrats are busy trying to nominate Hillary.

Brentai · « **Reply #362 on:** May 17, 2008, 10:17:18 AM »

I chuckle at the idea that in about six months we may all be shaking our heads and mumbling, "We shoulda went with Clinton."

Arc · « **Reply #363 on:** May 17, 2008, 10:40:05 AM »

There is no such scenario in which that could become true.

Kazz · « **Reply #364 on:** May 17, 2008, 10:41:34 AM »

Quote from: Arc on May 17, 2008, 10:40:05 AM

There is no such scenario in which that could become true.

qft

Thad · « **Reply #365 on:** May 17, 2008, 10:58:31 AM »

"We" is the incorrect word; however, if Obama gets beaten, that WILL be the conventional wisdom, right or wrong, and it's going to seriously hurt the party and the nation in the near term.

Brentai · « **Reply #366 on:** May 17, 2008, 11:30:17 AM »

If Obama manages to get beaten then anything that hurts the party is going to be like beating a dead horse.

Kazz · « **Reply #367 on:** May 17, 2008, 11:41:32 AM »

I present the following spicy blend of optimism and cynicism:

If Obama doesn't win, it will be because he is not alive.

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #368 on:** May 17, 2008, 02:36:44 PM »

I dunno. I personally predict a McCain victory myself. I predicted it about 2 years ago actually, but I still stand by it.

Kazz · « **Reply #369 on:** May 17, 2008, 03:08:35 PM »

America will deserve whoever it elects.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #370 on:** May 17, 2008, 11:00:55 PM »

In the event of a McCain victory, I look forward to finally meeting all of you in the internment camps.

Guild · « **Reply #371 on:** May 18, 2008, 12:08:49 AM »

I'll be a guard!

sei · « **Reply #372 on:** May 18, 2008, 02:17:03 AM »

No, but Aintaer might.

Thad · « **Reply #373 on:** May 18, 2008, 01:44:32 PM »

Quote from: eloH on May 17, 2008, 11:30:17 AM

If Obama manages to get beaten then anything that hurts the party is going to be like beating a dead horse.

Oh, things can get a LOT worse for the Democrats than simply losing the White House in November.

EDIT:

This is already a party whose conventional wisdom is that the only way to win is to become Republicans. That perception is cracking, and if Obama wins, it will crack quite a bit more (though it's premature to say it'll shatter, especially with today's headlines featuring his adoption of the manufactured "Social Security crisis"). If Obama loses, then 2012 will produce a candidate to the right of Clinton, and 2016 is likely to do the same. In the meantime, while the Dems may keep their Congressional majority, they will become even more useless than they've been for the past two years.

Quote from: Kazz on May 17, 2008, 03:08:35 PM

America will deserve whoever it elects.

Yeah, I'm about sick of hearing that. To suggest that the entire country deserves to suffer because a slim plurality picked a greater-evil candidate in a rigged electoral system...well, you know better than that and are clearly engaging in hyperbole, but I still find it a pretty obnoxious statement.

Brentai · « **Reply #374 on:** May 18, 2008, 01:46:57 PM »

Quote from: Thad on May 18, 2008, 01:44:32 PM

Quote from: eloH on May 17, 2008, 11:30:17 AM
If Obama manages to get beaten then anything that hurts the party is going to be like beating a dead horse.

Oh, things can get a LOT worse for the Democrats than simply losing the White House in November.

Right, I'm saying that if Dems can manage to lose this election, there's really nothing stopping their downward spiral to oblivion.

...so yeah better fasten your seatbelt.

Thad · « **Reply #375 on:** May 18, 2008, 01:52:58 PM »

Quote from: eloH on May 18, 2008, 01:46:57 PM

Right, I'm saying that if Dems can manage to lose this election, there's really nothing stopping their downward spiral to oblivion.

Well, potayto-potahto, then, but the "things that hurt the party" are sort of part of that downward spiral.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #376 on:** May 18, 2008, 02:47:47 PM »

Quote from: Kazz on May 17, 2008, 03:08:35 PM

America will deserve whoever it elects.

Do other countries deserve whoever America elects?

Kazz · « **Reply #377 on:** May 18, 2008, 03:03:52 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on May 18, 2008, 02:47:47 PM

Quote from: Kazz on May 17, 2008, 03:08:35 PM
America will deserve whoever it elects.

Do other countries deserve whoever America elects?

You're right. The rest of the world should vote on the American president.

I'm not being facetious; they'd probably do a better job.

SCD · « **Reply #378 on:** May 18, 2008, 06:01:48 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Ninja on May 18, 2008, 02:47:47 PM

Quote from: Kazz on May 17, 2008, 03:08:35 PM
America will deserve whoever it elects.

Do other countries deserve whoever America elects?

The people of the other nations deserve the government they get, more often than not - Either by being idiotic, or by being idiotic.

Mongrel · « **Reply #379 on:** May 18, 2008, 06:03:07 PM »

Quit reminding me of just how badly I wish we had someone electable.

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