If we can't talk about ourselves (and I "strongly" recommend that), let's gossip about others!

@2

Excellent, I have some time. Let's discuss the men who want to lead our country. Just to start off clearly, does Hilary hold a specific job title as we speak? Shucks, she's a woman. How about you start? K?

Vote third party! Either way, a party you hate will win and you can wash your hands of the responsibility of choosing.

Paul, I think Rand Paul strikes the GOP base as too much of a peacenik on military/war for empire issues. If he comes out for decriminalizing pot on the campaign trail, his goose is cooked. Plus, I don't think he has the political polish to stand over the long term in a national campaign. Right Wing yahoo's like Cruz win local and state offices, but don't play well in the national election. They betray enough symptoms of foot and mouth disease to destroy their own campaigns.



Jeb is preparing on the down low for his candidacy. He can best bring all factions of the GOP together to get the nomination.

wake me up in summer of 2016. until then, I could give a fuck who the GOP picks. I certainly can't/won't do anything about it.

@4: that the President is a "Wall Street Stooge" is a given. the question is, which Wall Street Stooge is least bad? America's not about to work some other way.

You don't give a fuck, Max? But Paul wrote this long in depth opinion piece.
I think your comment is a more efficient waste of time.

I would relish in a Rand Paul nomination. Put the crazy on display, GOP...doooo it. Worked really well for Palin.

Any Republican who's serious about running and/or isn't just plain delusional about his chances isn't going to toss his hat in the ring this early.

Quite frankly, Bieber would have been a better choice than Cruz

Herman Cain is definitely just entertainment. I can't wait to see the next lipsync parody.

If you really think Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are equivalent - just like Al Gore and GWB were equivalent - then you really haven't been paying any attention. HRC leaves so so much to be desired and is so horribly flawed, but she's a no brainer relative to what you'd get from the most moderate (sane) GOP candidate.

If you insist on not supporting a Dem, by supporting a hopeless 3rd party candidate (Nader anyone?), just not voting, or worse, voting GOP, then you need to come out and admit (to yourself and everyone else) that you're just a nihilist who thinks the way to 'fix it" is to hurry up and blow the whole thing up the quicker to start over from scratch.

I have news: the .01% who own the GOP these days will come through the nihilist annihilation in much greater comfort than anyone else, poised to take an even stronger stranglehold on our collective throats than ever.

Less crazy equals Ted Cruz?

Can Cruz technically run. I thought he was born in Canada. Wouldn't that disqualify him or has this been debunked?

How dare you mention and criticize Ben Carson without mentioning that he's black! You're racist, just like liberals everywhere.
^That was my c_s impression. (Yes, he actually once called Paul Constant racist for criticizing Mr. Carson without mentioning that he is black.)

And now in honor of the late 5280 on the occasion of his birthday, I shall go drink a beer and not give a fuck. I imagine wherever he is, he's doing something similar.

Is no one else going to mention that in this photo, rand Paul looks like a young Bill Murray?

@13- Whereas your solution for fixing it is to just keeping driving it and expecting the awful grinding noise to go away.

@18 - doubt you're checking back, but the list of small, modest, incremental and perhaps unsatisfying but fundamental and successful changes brought by the flawed Obama administration is long and is in fact progress, unlike anything we'd have seen from McCain or Romney. Seriously. Do you think the revolution would have come and all the injustices and bullshit policies would have evaporated if only we'd allowed McCain to take us into war with Iran or Romney to finish gutting the tax code and looting the dregs in the treasury? No, we would still be right where we are, with the 99% paying the tab and holding the flaming bag of dog poo. Nevermind what kind of Supreme Court we'd have.

Idealistic nihilism is petulant and juvenile, at best.

Yes, I will gladly keep driving down the road listening to the awful grinding sound from the transmission, and be grateful to have the car and not be walking through the desert. Damn straight.

The fact that someone as stupid as Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon is extremely frightening.

@Once again your answer is "Less bad is better than more bad." Which is true.

But we should be expecting and working towards "actually good." And we are not going to get that from a Democratic party that has a single core value of "slightly left of the GOP." You would think that losing the House because of low turnout 4 years ago would have inclined them to get active, go nuclear, or at least maybe put judicial nominations up for a fucking vote. But no, the doubled down on spineless whining. More than half of Americans did not bother voting. Maybe it is because they recognize that they are not being represented.

Progressives need a voice, and what we get from the Democrats is a bunch of shushing noises and Hilary "McGovern"Clinton.