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    HarlotOScaraMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 3:13pm

    That’s because he is, by far, the most reasonable Republican who was running. He’s much more centrist than anyone else. Yes, he’s still part of the Republican party, so save your arguments about how he’s a conservative. He’s not a Democrat, so that’s pretty much a given.

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      AnnieW50HarlotOScara
      5/14/16 3:19pm

      Centrist? Like when he cut food stamp bennies for “urban” types but not for good God fearing rural folks?

      He only appears to be a centrist because he’s not batshit insane.

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      Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!AnnieW50
      5/14/16 3:26pm

      Exactly. A Kasich presidency would, policy-wise, be no different than George W. Bush’s. The only difference would be he wouldn’t ritualistically murder the English language every time he gave a press conference.

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    PrettyLegitMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 5:16pm

    If they had run someone like Huntsman, they could have won easily. An actual moderate Republican could have done very well if the Democrat nominee is going to be Hillary. One day they’ll figure out that continuing to move hard right is only going to sink them.

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      DriveByCommentsPrettyLegit
      5/14/16 6:48pm

      Yep. The problem would have been getting Huntsman through the primary with the dozen other candidates there. However, if you look at how it played out I think a lot of people were looking for alternatives but couldn’t stomach the Rubio, Cruz, Kasich lines either due to platform, personality or electibility

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      faaipdeoiadPrettyLegit
      5/14/16 7:16pm

      I’m a registered Democrat (and have voted D in every election since I was old enough in 1996) and I’d definitely vote for John Huntsman in this election.

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    Jerry-NetherlandMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 3:28pm

    If Romney, Kasich, or Sasse were inserted as the Republican candidate at the convention, Trump would run independent and all would lose.

    If Romney, Kasich, or Sasse were to run third-party, it might be enough to carve off enough Republican voters and they’ll all lose.

    Either way, what this would do is save the Republican party from becoming an extension of the Trump empire.

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      DL ThurstonJerry-Netherland
      5/14/16 3:43pm

      However, by giving Republican voters who might otherwise be dissatisfied with their choice and stay home a protest option of sorts, a fringe run might help shore up down-ticket races by bringing in more voters who will check every (R) they see after making their top line decision.

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      bloopitybloopbloopbloopJerry-Netherland
      5/14/16 3:59pm

      OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE!

      Please, just stop.

      I am going to say this once, and then, if I have to say this again, my head might explode and that will be on you conscience —

      TRUMP CAN’T RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT!

      A lot of states have something called lucky loser laws — or maybe unlucky loser? — that disallows you from running in a primary, losing and then running anyway. That’s why when the dude who won the GOP primary to run against Obama in Illinois had to step down for taking Jeri Ryan, his wife, to sex clubs, and then pulling strings to keep that from being made public, the asshole who came in second, a Trumpian sort, couldn’t be the nominee and they had to go with Alan Keyes instead. Who lost in hilarious fashion.*

      Plus, the filing deadlines for most states are quickly approaching. Texas’ had passed already.

      So, please, just fucking stop.

      Just. Fucking. Stop.

      PS — this is less addressed to you, rando Gawker commenter and more the media who types who allegedly cover politics and should know better. It just irritates me how ignorant our media is, thus making the rest of us ignorant of how the system works.

      * this does not mean that you can’t get on the ballot if you lost that state’s primary for the presidential race, only if you lost the nomination.

      PPS — it’s called a sore loser law. Why did I think lucky loser? I don’t know. And I had to dip my toe in the yucky world of rightwing media to get confirmation of this. So thanks. Now I have cooties.

      https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/201…

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    Kenhe LoginMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 4:00pm

    The GOP is the party of white identity politics. Since Nixon’s Southern Strategy no Democratic candidate has received a majority of white voters; it’s been 52 years. Trump does well because he doesn’t bother with dog whistles and appeals to racists directly.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesKenhe Login
      5/15/16 12:49am

      And, it’s really starting to hurt them since the population has gone from 85.4% non-hispanic white in 1960 to 63.7% non-hispanic white in 2010. Given the rate of change, it will be under 60% at the 2020 Census in four years. And, it’s not even just fewer whites, it’s that the younger generation of white Americans are not as solidly Republican, so they are being killed on both the age and race front.

      This may finally be the start of the final splintering of this party. In fact, 2012 showed that even a moderate turnout election doesn’t produce enough of the white racial resentment vote to win a presidential election.

      They’ll be able to wreak havoc in the legislature for quite a few more cycles because of gerrymandering. But, as a national party competitive in presidential elections, they are falling apart.

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      esalocanegraGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      5/15/16 2:23am

      I appreciate you presenting the numbers, because I got nothin’ but hearsay and a gut feeling that says nothing is guaranteed, and a Trump presidency is still a very real, and frightening, possibility. Hillary needs the votes in the actual election, and I have heard so many people saying if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination, which he won’t, then they’re not voting. Not to mention Bernie has his own percentage of disenfranchised white supporters who will vote Trump over Hillary. All that mixed with voter suppression on top of the rest of who may vote Democrat but just don’t care, and the ugly face of politics and the masses who are desperate to see him through just might succeed in sending this country into a depression, and I’m not necessarily referring to one of a fiscal nature.

      I keep imagining that the I’ll throw, or attend an election party, and I’ll propose the toast, “Tonight we celebrate, for tomorrow we may die!”

      Tell me I’m crazy...

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    Jerry-NetherlandMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 3:17pm

    Mark Cuban has enough self-awareness to respond to this with a...

    GIF
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      SnagglepussJerry-Netherland
      5/14/16 3:26pm

      it’ll be the battle royale between two egocentric, publicity whoring billionaires!

      And Hillary

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      Cam/ronJerry-Netherland
      5/14/16 6:50pm

      There’s the infamous incident where Cuban impulsively wrote a multi-million dollar check to buy a friend’s mansion, without seeing a photo of it.

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    Pug AttackMelissa Cronin
    5/14/16 3:11pm

    Fixed it for you.

    Well What Do Ya Know? Republicans Actually Miss Any Sane Candidate

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      Constant ColorsPug Attack
      5/14/16 3:28pm

      Is it missing something if you never had it?

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    Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!Melissa Cronin
    5/14/16 3:29pm

    When you say “Republicans”, you mean “college educated, suburbanite and city-dwelling Republicans that have just as many friends that are Democrats as they do friends that are Republicans”

    In other words, not the base.

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      Emile Durkheim, but WokeMelissa Cronin
      5/14/16 3:16pm

      might just be Sen. Ben Sasse

      More like Sen. Ben’s Asse

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        FlazloMelissa Cronin
        5/16/16 5:00pm

        Romney is among those who have made personal overtures to both men in recent days, according to several people with knowledge of the former Massachusetts governor’s activities.

        “Hey...how are you?...Great - look, I’ll cut to the chase; I was wondering if you’d like to be the GOP nominee...yes, I know Trump is the nominee, but I was thinking...no I don’t...that’s quite a coincidence, because I was going to ask you if you knew a wizard...”

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          JohnTChanceMelissa Cronin
          5/14/16 3:55pm

          Oh man, a Mark Cuban run would just complete the clown show. Imagine him giving a press conference on tax policy while on a treadmill.

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