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2016 Postmortem

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts) Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:22 PM Oct 2016

BREAKING NEWS. Lee L. Mercer, Jr. to be a guest of Donald tRump at the debate.

All three!!

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BREAKING NEWS. Lee L. Mercer, Jr. to be a guest of Donald tRump at the debate. (Original Post) madinmaryland Oct 2016 OP

I think about him every election! Lucinda Oct 2016 #1

Is this true? dhol82 Oct 2016 #2

Can someone explain this joke to me? BlueStater Oct 2016 #3

Lee Mercer, Jr. ran for president in the saltpoint Oct 2016 #4

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

1. I think about him every election!

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:23 PM

Oct 2016

dhol82

(9,353 posts)

2. Is this true?

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:26 PM

Oct 2016

Even the Donald can't be that stupid.

Ok, I take it back.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)

3. Can someone explain this joke to me?

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:29 PM

Oct 2016

I've seen it thrown around this forum for years and have never gotten it.

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)

4. Lee Mercer, Jr. ran for president in the

Reply to BlueStater (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 07:56 PM

Oct 2016

2008 election, but was considered an extremely marginal candidate.

There's this:

https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaE0000798/

He is evidently running again, although I don't think very many of us knew that, or of those who did that it mattered much.

Mercer issued various statements with decidedly odd turns of language. There was more than one suggestion that he was not playing with a full deck. And that's the PG assessment.

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