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seaotter
(576 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)I want a unicorn.
vdogg
(1,384 posts)This is superb trolling actually. Well done.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Bernie supporters voting for Drumpf? Pish tosh. Some may stay home, but vote for the vulgar talking yam? Not on your life.
TheUndecider
(93 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)...a solid Democrat.
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)I can't say it anymore without risking going back on time-out and perhaps a lifetime ban.
Instead, I will say "I can't wait for the day Hillary is gone from Democratic politics forever."
Heddi
(18,312 posts)or some bullshit reason like that
"Dear Jurors, please look at this post and before I go any further I want to make it clear that I am a bernie supporter but Wishing Hillary Clinton DEAD as that's the only way she'd be out of the politics FOREVER. Come on. Beyond the pale. Is this TRUMP underground or what. Gosh, FREEPERVILLE is THAT WAY <---Oh did I mention I'm a bernie supporter? Because I am. A bernie supporter. Not partisan at all. GO TEAM HILL--bernie!"
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Which means that we'd have held the White House until at-least 2024...but I don't.
I mean "I can't wait until Sanders secures the nomination and her political career is over because he'd never appoint her to any position and 4 years from now, she'll be too old to run again meaning her 2016 defeat is the last hurrah and good-riddance to Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Heddi
(18,312 posts)the lies I've seen in alert messages are shocking.
Don't put anything past alert trolls
Chan790
(20,176 posts)A whopping 0% chance to serve. I'm dreading the day I'm eligible again, I forget to shut off willingness to serve and some alert pops up that makes me burst a blood vessel.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)are just lies. You may be ineligible to be on a jury---doesn't mean alert trolls won't make up some bullshit story about something you post, hoping for at least 4 people too lazy to actually read the post that's being alerted on.
Svafa
(594 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Bucky
(54,027 posts)an Latino
She will have a lot of baggage going into the GE. She will need a gimmick of some kind if she has a chance to win. I see Julian Castro as the likely choice. It'll help flip Texas blue.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)Long after what's left of Florida in 2040 goes solid Democratic and the torrid deserts of once-fertile South Carolina are home to hopeless Save the Antarctic rallies, Texas will still be a reliably Republican state. We're simply too stubborn down here to tolerate inconvenient facts spoiling the poetry of our opinions.
chalky
(3,297 posts)N/T
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)that's not racist in the least
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Ya know?
Bad Thoughts
(2,524 posts)elleng
(130,974 posts)we are going to lose.'
Marco Rubio
Goes for BOTH parties.
applegrove
(118,696 posts)her Republican friends and she generalized about working across the isle with McCain and a few others. She doesn't have a best in the GOP. Plus I think she'll be like Obama and want a vp who will really dig deep and help her administration. It will be someone with democratic gravitas.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)A solid Democratic ticket and a humanitarian war. Show ' em the stuff you're made of, Hill.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World
A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.
By Mariah Blake
MotherJones | September/October 2014 Issue
EXCERPT...
As part of its expanded energy mandate, the State Department hosted conferences on fracking from Thailand to Botswana. It sent US experts to work alongside foreign officials as they developed shale gas programs. And it arranged for dozens of foreign delegations to visit the United States to attend workshops and meet with industry consultantsas well as with environmental groups, in some cases.
US oil giants, meanwhile, were snapping up natural gas leases in far-flung places. By 2012, Chevron had large shale concessions in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, and South Africa, as well as in Eastern Europe, which was in the midst of a claim-staking spree; Poland alone had granted more than 100 shale concessions covering nearly a third of its territory. When the nation lit its first shale gas flare atop a Halliburton-drilled well that fall, the state-owned gas company ran full-page ads in the country's largest newspapers showing a spindly rig rising above the hills in the tiny village of Lubocino, alongside the tagline: "Don't put out the flame of hope." Politicians promised that Poland would soon break free of its nemesis, Russia, which supplies the lion's share of its gas. "After years of dependence on our large neighbor, today we can say that my generation will see the day when we will be independent in the area of natural gas," Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared. "And we will be setting terms."
But shale was not the godsend that industry leaders and foreign governments had hoped it would be. For one, new research from the US Geological Survey suggested that the EIA assessments had grossly overestimated shale deposits: The recoverable shale gas estimate for Poland shrank from 187 trillion cubic feet to 1.3 trillion cubic feet, a 99 percent drop. Geological conditions and other factors in Europe and Asia also made fracking more arduous and expensive; one industry study estimated that drilling shale gas in Poland would cost three times what it does in the United States.
By 2013, US oil giants were abandoning their Polish shale plays. "The expectations for global shale gas were extremely high," says the State Department's Hueper. "But the geological limitations and aboveground challenges are immense. A handful of countries have the potential for a boom, but there may never be a global shale gas revolution."
The politics of fracking overseas were also fraught. According to Susan Sakmar, a visiting law professor at the University of Houston who has studied fracking regulation, the United States is one of the only nations where individual landowners own the mineral rights. "In most, perhaps all, other countries of the world, the underground resources belong to the crown or the government," she explains. The fact that property owners didn't stand to profit from drilling on their land ignited public outrage in some parts of the world, especially Eastern Europe. US officials speculate that Russia also had a hand in fomenting protests there. "The perception among diplomats in the region was that Russia was protecting its interests," says Mark Gitenstein, the former US ambassador to Romania. "It didn't want shale gas for obvious reasons."
CONTINUED KISSINGER...
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron?page=2
TBF
(32,067 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)A National Elite Unity Party.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Not a slam on her, but she's a bit of a lightning rod when it comes to how Republicans view her.
We'd have to be talking about one incredibly dissatisfied Republican.
Bucky
(54,027 posts)Hoo've we even got to consider among the Republicans to run on our ticket? It would steer our party in the wrong direction. The grass is definitely not greener there.
Anyway, I think it would be a big misteak
hatrack
(59,587 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)nominee then Trump is our next President.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)will already be voting for her if they hate Trump. The only GOPers left are those who despise her, so she will actually gain ZIP.
On the other hand, she WILL lose every single Sanders supporter if she tries that crap.
And she will lose the election to Donald Trump.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)---bad strategy
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)I like it...
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)...
lame54
(35,294 posts)the party is in the middle of a free fall
no safety nets
let 'em fall
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)solid Democrat all the way.
Can't wait!
Broward
(1,976 posts)Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)50 years ago, maybe, but in these hyper-partisan days it just wouldn't work.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)What do folks think?
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)Absolutely NOT. And there is NO reason in the world why she would do such a positively inane thing.
seaotter
(576 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)than putting on a Republican would convince Republicans to cross over.
Have you seen what Trump is running on, and the reaction.
Heck, he might even run to the Left of Hillary on issues. (Provided she is the nominee.)
tularetom
(23,664 posts)I think that would make an excellent ticket.
That way, when Hillary Clinton goes to jail, there would still be a family member in office.
Rex
(65,616 posts)No old white men, give someone new a chance.
ananda
(28,866 posts)..
Rex
(65,616 posts)jeepers
(314 posts)Chose a southern democrat as his running mate in 1864. When Lincoln died a white southern (Tennessee) sympathizer and a drunk was in charge of reconstruction.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)FUCK NO.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Albertoo
(2,016 posts)Mark Zuckerberg is a bit too young. some 45-50 Democrat CEO with a folksy touch.
easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)No, no, no.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)If Hillary chooses a Republican as a running mate...such a ticket does not deserve our support either.
revbones
(3,660 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)I'm sure she will do anything to win, it's the Clinton way.
emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)gcomeau
(5,764 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)No, I don't think that she should. The Clintons spent their previous time in the White House politically tacking to the right. That, alas, was the temper of the times, and was in most of the country until quite recently.
The winds have shifted; it's time to tack left.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)It's going to be about establishment vs outsider.
There are;
a) no moderate republicans
b) no scenarios in which it peels support from Trump
c) ample reasons that a 68 year old candidate with a medical history of blood clots on the brain should not pick a Repuke VP.
donna123
(182 posts)It is mythical at this point, like a unicorn. The base, the freaking crazy base, will not tolerate any republicans being moderate.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Are we pretending it isn't obvious that the country is moving left and that would be suicide in this political climate?
JEB
(4,748 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,415 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)If elected she will have little to do with the dems anyway. She and the Republican Congress will go through the Dem initiatives of the 20th century like W. T. Sherman went through Georgia.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)RobinA
(9,893 posts)was a moderate Republican.