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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:26 PM Apr 2015

Which 2016 Republican presidential candidate do you find to be the most contemptible?


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Rand Paul
0 (0%)
Marco Rubio
0 (0%)
Jeb Bush
0 (0%)
Scott Walker
1 (33%)
Chris Christie
0 (0%)
Ben Carson, M.D.
0 (0%)
Mike Huckabee
0 (0%)
Carly Fiorina
0 (0%)
Ted Cruz
1 (33%)
Other
1 (33%)
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Which 2016 Republican presidential candidate do you find to be the most contemptible? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 OP
No Ted Cruz? Skinner Apr 2015 #1
TY...I am glad i got to fix it early. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #4
ted cruz gwheezie Apr 2015 #2
there was no onethatcares Apr 2015 #3
I voted other.. one_voice Apr 2015 #5
My vote for other Runningdawg Apr 2015 #6
I added him. You can change your vote. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #11
our 10 minutes of hate. PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #7
Toughest. Poll. Ever. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #8
Other, all of the above. Autumn Apr 2015 #9
Scott Walker is the biggest idiot and the biggest warmonger so he gets my vote nt geek tragedy Apr 2015 #10
I don't know them all well enough to say. I do know Walker pretty well HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #12
Are you a Marquette basketball fan? DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #13
No, I don't follow hoopla, college or pro. HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #17
Other: All of the above.... FSogol Apr 2015 #14
I voted for Ted Cruz because he makes me nauseated. CTyankee Apr 2015 #15
A hard choice but Cruz (barely) edges out the others. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2015 #16
Choices, choices, choices! n/t. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #18
Walker, 100% purchased. polichick Apr 2015 #19
I can't stand Ted Cruz, he's the spitting image of sufrommich Apr 2015 #20
All of the above + more. 2naSalit Apr 2015 #21
too hard to choose! nt treestar Apr 2015 #22
I'm a homer: Marco Rubio. Scurrilous Apr 2015 #23
Walker, hands down the worst. Half-Century Man Apr 2015 #24

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
12. I don't know them all well enough to say. I do know Walker pretty well
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:39 PM
Apr 2015

he -IS- contemptible.
I lean toward believing his career at Marquette was cut short not by cheating student government politics (which is known to be true) but because he got a co-ed pregnant and got his parents to pay the associated costs...on the condition of signing a confidentiality agreement.


I do understand that my belief is highly prejudiced by my utterly complete disrespect of Walker's decency.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
13. Are you a Marquette basketball fan?
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:51 PM
Apr 2015

I am a huge Dwyane Wade fan...I know he is a big Marquette contributor...


Sorry about your Bucks... The Bulls are pretty good.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
17. No, I don't follow hoopla, college or pro.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:56 PM
Apr 2015

I actually support NO WI-based athletics. You can take the flat-lander out of Illinois but you can never take Illinois out of the flat-lander.

I understand the Bulls are looking good but last night played a very crappy game against the Bucs

R.I.P. Doug Buffone

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
15. I voted for Ted Cruz because he makes me nauseated.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 04:56 PM
Apr 2015

For second place I would probably say Rand Paul, altho Christie is pretty high on the nausea meter.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
24. Walker, hands down the worst.
Tue Apr 21, 2015, 05:36 PM
Apr 2015

Not very bright.
Completely bought.
ALEC veteran, so during his entire political life he was raised to be a sell out.
Sells out at fairly bargain prices (less than 3/4 million to change mining and environmental laws).
Blatantly sells out (less than 3/4 million to change mining and environmental laws).

I suspect a "mutually assured destruction" situation with some national level power broker(s). At one point during the John Doe2 investigations; rumors began circulating the a Scott Walker's office was about to flip states evidence. So, the nationally widely read uber-conservative newspaper the "Wall Street Press" published an editorial with a not so vague threat to Scott Walker in it.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12492/walker-negotiating-john-doe-settlement-and-wall-street-journal-terrified
http://www.thedailycall.org/?p=60403
The negotiations between Scott Walker and Federal Prosecutors stopped. He has been the darling of right wing power brokers ever since.

I read a lot into this, most likely far too much, but I can see things.

Like, he is being protected from federal level investigations; this is beyond the scope of Walker's political machine built here is Wisconsin.
Just under half of his total political contributions have come from out of state (according to Wi Democracy Campaign (www,wisdc.org) total: 256409 contributions generating $61,062,518.98; in state contributions were 126,580 contributors generating $31,494,699.39). These are the funds donated directly to him. They do not include funds to his "non-aligned" PACs (Wisconsin Club for Growth, Unintimidated PAC, and Our American Revival).

This is a lot of national interest in what would seem to be a bucolic generator of cheese.

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