# The 2016 Republican candidates **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 9, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444 "2015-01-09T22:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 52
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1022 "2015-03-11T15:30:53Z")
I’ll be betting on Romney and Rubio. But seriously, is there interest in such an experimental auction? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1023 "2015-03-11T15:52:16Z")
Sure, that could be fun. Count me in. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1024 "2015-03-11T16:06:10Z")
Started out, I was kidding about the Draft Romney movement. Now, not so sure… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1025 "2015-03-11T16:06:37Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > I’ve got $10 on the the self-centered, lying, crazy a-hole. Put me down for a sawbuck on the long-term party insider who portrays himself as a maverick. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1026 "2015-03-11T16:14:37Z")
My money is on the very conservative candidate with centrist cred. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1027 "2015-03-11T16:20:00Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Would it be fun to organize an auction, in which Dopers bid to estimate the chances of various contenders winning the nomination? Only if it is an actual real-life slave auction. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1028 "2015-03-11T18:17:07Z")
I’ll put down ten on the guy who panders to the “original intent of the Founders” crowd. Hey, I know it’s a longshot… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1029 "2015-03-11T19:08:09Z")
In my crystal ball… I see a man…a white man… he’s praising Ronald Reagan… he’s against abortion… he loves that second amendment… hates Obamacare… his name is… Damn, it fogged up. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1030 "2015-03-11T19:54:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > In my crystal ball… I see a man…a white man… he’s praising Ronald Reagan… he’s against abortion… he loves that second amendment… hates Obamacare… his name is… Damn, it fogged up. Legion. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1031 "2015-03-11T21:18:59Z")
Jindal can’t get enough of the [Kool-Aid](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-obama-wiping-out-freedom-through-secularization#sthash.8VEEgYsX.dpuf): > [@](#): > > He lamented that “we have never before had a president this ideologically extreme, who does not believe in American exceptionalism, does not believe in the American dream that you and I were taught, does not believe in religious liberty and has effectively, for six years, done everything he could to change our culture on all three of those areas to become a new country, a new American dream, a new conception of liberty.” It’s like he is mainlining the spittle that hangs from Hannity’s lip. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1032 "2015-03-12T02:08:34Z")
I actually endorse that statement. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1033 "2015-03-12T02:45:17Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Jindal can’t get enough of the [Kool-Aid](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-obama-wiping-out-freedom-through-secularization#sthash.8VEEgYsX.dpuf):It’s like he is mainlining the spittle that hangs from Hannity’s lip. “A new country, a new American dream, a new conception of liberty” actually sounds like something promised, not threatened, in a party platform or a presidential campaign ad (though not in any of Obama’s AFAICR). ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1034 "2015-03-12T11:13:11Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I actually endorse that statement. You seriously believe Obama doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, or the American dream, or religious liberty, and has tried to “change our culture” to “become a new country”?? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1035 "2015-03-12T11:18:45Z")
I seriously believe that, although I’m not going to debate it here because the moderator will kick me in the nads.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1036 "2015-03-12T11:21:33Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I seriously believe that, although I’m not going to debate it here because the moderator will kick me in the nads.🙂 No wonder [you bought](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18036281&postcount=2995) the birther claims… ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1037 "2015-03-12T11:22:40Z")
I bought only one in particular. I never actually believed he was born in Kenya. I just thought he’d pulled a Warren on his university application. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1038 "2015-03-12T11:28:27Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I bought only one in particular. I never actually believed he was born in Kenya. I just thought he’d pulled a Warren on his university application. LOL. You only believed one totally ridiculous, unfounded and baseless accusation by crazy people about a man you have a serious personal dislike for. When are you going to recognize that you have a fundamental problem with objectivity regarding Obama or anything relating to him? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1039 "2015-03-12T11:30:43Z")
How is it ridiculous when a progressive hero did pretty much the same thing? That’s the whole reason I bought the story, was because of Warren. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1040 "2015-03-12T11:36:05Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > How is it ridiculous when a progressive hero did pretty much the same thing? That’s the whole reason I bought the story, was because of Warren. It’s ridiculous because it’s totally baseless and unfounded. You heard or read someone somewhere say “Obama put Kenya on his college application!” and _you believed it without checking_. It’s just another demonstration of how your personal hatred of the man spills into every single issue – you believe ridiculous claims about the President, as long as they’re negative, _without fucking checking the facts_. Would you believe “McCain put Congo as his place of birth on his college application” without checking? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1041 "2015-03-12T11:49:41Z")
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