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Old 13-02-2016, 23:41   #46
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Re: US Election 2016

Scalia is dead? This is tragic and huge.

Shame I actually liked him.

He isn't the most conservative judge, but the loudest, Thomas is more conservative I understand, but he never speaks.
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Old 14-02-2016, 00:02   #47
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Scalia is dead? This is tragic and huge.

Shame I actually liked him.

He isn't the most conservative judge, but the loudest, Thomas is more conservative I understand, but he never speaks.
Fair enough. Scalia is probably the more obvious one then. He tends to write the dissenting opinion when the left is in the majority isn't he?
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Fair enough. Scalia is probably the more obvious one then. He tends to write the dissenting opinion when the left is in the majority isn't he?
Yes usually that's true. If he is replaced by a liberal that will skew the supreme court quite considerably.
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Re: US Election 2016

I wonder how long the Republicans can stall the nomination and it would be politically damaging for them to do so? A year is a long time to be without a Supreme Court Justice but it seems just short enough to be realistically possible, especially if they make it to the Summer and the whole thing shuts down in the time between the conventions and Election day.

The chance of him getting a pro-choice, pro-Obamacare, anti-Citizens United justice onto the court this year is close to zero IMO.
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Re: US Election 2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35572261

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Re: US Election 2016

Is it true that Jeb Bush is the brother of George Dubya? If so, Trump is way better than him as President.
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Old 14-02-2016, 14:52   #52
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Is it true that Jeb Bush is the brother of George Dubya? If so, Trump is way better than him as President.
Well, much as it pains me to defend Jeb Bush, at least Jeb has history as the Governor of a State; all Trump has is a history of self-publicity and bankruptcy.

Trump isn't even a very successful businessman - he has a string of bankruptcies, and he would be twice as wealthy as he is now if he had just invested his father's legacy in a tracker fund.

He's incoherent, mysoginistic, and changes his position more times than a chess grandmaster - watch this Stephen Colbert video for examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKiP_gmDS8

The best that can be said about Trump is that he is not Cruz - but that's like preferring Syphilis to AIDS....
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Re: US Election 2016

Also it's not a secret Jeb Bush is the brother of President G W Bush. None of the realistic candidates for the Republican nomination are hardly encouraging. Rubio, the main 'non-nutter' candidate is quite right wing.

The best candidate IMO is Clinton. Moderation and competence seems to have become less popular though.
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Yes l echo those same thoughts as well.
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Re: US Election 2016

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Well, much as it pains me to defend Jeb Bush, at least Jeb has history as the Governor of a State; all Trump has is a history of self-publicity and bankruptcy.

Trump isn't even a very successful businessman - he has a string of bankruptcies, and he would be twice as wealthy as he is now if he had just invested his father's legacy in a tracker fund.

He's incoherent, mysoginistic, and changes his position more times than a chess grandmaster - watch this Stephen Colbert video for examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKiP_gmDS8

The best that can be said about Trump is that he is not Cruz - but that's like preferring Syphilis to AIDS....
Trump has no right to attack others for their family connections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

His own father claimed to be a real estate developer though he was infamous
as a landlord who refused to lease to African Americans and was a member of the KKK.. Mind Donald would think this was a good thing I suspect.
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Old 15-02-2016, 21:10   #56
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Well, much as it pains me to defend Jeb Bush, at least Jeb has history as the Governor of a State; all Trump has is a history of self-publicity and bankruptcy.

Trump isn't even a very successful businessman - he has a string of bankruptcies, and he would be twice as wealthy as he is now if he had just invested his father's legacy in a tracker fund.

He's incoherent, mysoginistic, and changes his position more times than a chess grandmaster - watch this Stephen Colbert video for examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKiP_gmDS8

The best that can be said about Trump is that he is not Cruz - but that's like preferring Syphilis to AIDS....
Completely agree with all this. Jeb actually has a very, very good record as governor of florida. He got florida out of the red and also managed to grow floridas economy a great deal. Plus he seems far more intelligent than his brother...

Sadly i think george has sullied the bush name quite a bit so bringing george w in to help jeb may largely backfire.

At the moment it seems the two front runners bernie sanders and donald trump are succeeding because theyre promising completely unrealistic things without explaining how they're going to afford/implement it.
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Re: US Election 2016

Despite her protestations, Clinton is in the pocket of Wall Street. She has also changed her position on gay marriage and LGBT rights since running for President. She's now trying to paint Sanders as a single issue candidate. He's been an equality supporter in all senses for years.
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Jeb Bush has a web problem. The Republican presidential candidate has been using Jeb2016.com as his main campaign website. But as the Daily Caller noticed on Monday, visitors to a more intuitive URL for the Bush campaign will find themselves at a rival's site.

If you type JebBush.com into your web browser, it'll automatically redirect you to DonaldJTrump.com, the official website for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It's unclear whether this fun bit of trolling comes from the Trump campaign itself, or just an overzealous fan of The Donald.
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Re: US Election 2016

So Trump won South Carolina, for once I am not supporting the loser.
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Re: US Election 2016

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So Trump won South Carolina, for once I am not supporting the loser.
Things will change once they get out of the backwater states... It's a bit like comparing inner cities to rural counties in the UK elections. Unless Rubio or Bush get the nomination then there's likely to be a democratic president next term.
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