Huh? Those are four of the most popular candidates among the base. Here’s PPP’s favorable/unfavorable ratings results for each of the surviving candidates among national GOP primary voters (“the base”), dated December 16th, from least to most popular:

Thing is, even if there’s a bunch of skeletons in Rubio’s closet and it turns out he’s a corrupt preening politicking serial liar... he’ll be *running against Hillary*, who has a reputation for being that to the nth degree, so it won’t be a particularly effective line of attack against him.

I mean, he’s not wrong about Bill. Just a flaming hypocrite (in at least three separate dimensions) to be the one pointing it out.

I’ve lived here my entire life and have literally never heard of this show. How many viewers does it have? Six?

“As long as it is totally legal...”

Hm. I also came out as -0.4 Democrat, which is interesting, because I am a far-right Republican who supports Personhood Amendments and whose favorite Supreme Court justice is Clarence Thomas.

Jezebel’s a pretty liberal site. Go to a conservative site of roughly equal quality — say, Breitbart — and you’ll find the mirror image of this thread.

I’ve noticed this phenomenon a few times in the past few years. Highly anticipated installment in a franchise comes out.

Yeah, say what you will about Ted Cruz, but he’s not a neo-Nazi like a good chunk of Europe’s ultra-Right.

Yeah. The federal government does have supreme authority over matters of immigration, so OP is right about that. But the federal government has passed a number of immigration laws that at least *appear on the surface* to say that the President is not allowed to do exactly the thing President Obama tried to do with…

I don’t agree with the way it attacks catastrophic-care policies. If you want to have a comprehensive plan, sure, that should be an option available to you, but those of us who think insurance is mainly there to pay catastrophic costs (while we pay our routine costs out-of-pocket) should have also been allowed to keep…

He’s still tough on Republicans. See his Ted Cruz shindig?

Imagine if conservatives applied the “don’t watch actors who believe things that offend me” standard to film and TV stars! Wouldn’t have anything left to watch. Progressive privilege does it again.

I know you are, but what am I?

I am genuinely baffled that anyone could not know the answer to this question, but I’ve seen it several places in the past 24 hours, and so many of the answers seem to revolve around some kind of “Puritans love punishing people” fantasy that I feel I may be of some use here. Here are some arguments:

Problem: documents were fake. Documents were not authenticated. Journalists lied about whether they had been authenticated. Journalists did not do a single one of a dozen things they might have done to verify the documents. Journalists were not doing their jobs; journalists were doing hatchet job on a political enemy.…

“adjusting the laws so horrible people like this guy can’t get them.”

You or your immediate surroundings. Had the shooter attacked one of the classrooms where these guys were initially, he would have been fired upon. These guys apparently then set up a defensive perimeter at their building. Had the shooter attempted to violate that perimeter, he would have been fired upon. The gun…

Yeah, she’d have fit in well with the Blue Dog Democrats who got elected — many from around her area, as I recall — in 2008.

Um, what now? The Democratic Party didn’t come out officially for gay marriage until Two Thousand and TWELVE — literally their most recent platform update. As recently as 2004, the party platform explicitly stated that marriage should be a state issue... which is precisely the position Kim Davis herself takes.