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« on: January 07, 2016, 05:12:08 PM »

So not "killed a baby" or "is a member of ISIL." I'm curious to hear what people have to say about squeaky clean candidates like Sanders, as well as invincible candidates like Trump.

Here are some I can think of:
Clinton - said something racist as FLOAR or as a candidate in 2008
Christie - used state funds for hush money for something
Santorum - says people with AIDS "got what was coming to them"
Huckabee - people remember who Maurice Clemmons is
Sanders - tape emerges of him saying that Mao/Stalin/Lenin "had a lot of good ideas"
Carson - is found to have "relapsed" after he found religion
Trump - says something reasonable that alienates the base
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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 05:19:33 PM »

Rubio has a ton of rumors about him that I've heard at the various places I've been interning around town. I actually am starting to wonder if there is some truth to them.
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 05:20:10 PM »

Cruz - May have been guilty of manslaughter as a college student.
Donald "The U.S. has become a dumping ground" Trump - Easier to think of stuff he hasn't done.
O'Malley - Cursing about the blacks.
Kasich - Cracking a rather horrible joke about the Clintons in the late 90's.
Santorum - Saying something about athiests being stupid.
Rubio - Gay stuff/Money laundering.
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2016, 06:35:50 PM »

Cruz - May have been guilty of manslaughter as a college student.
Donald "The U.S. has become a dumping ground" Trump - Easier to think of stuff he hasn't done.
O'Malley - Cursing about the blacks.
Kasich - Cracking a rather horrible joke about the Clintons in the late 90's.
Santorum - Saying something about athiests being stupid.
Rubio - Gay stuff/Money laundering.
This is 'Murica. We don't like atheists. That would cause Santorum to go up in the polls. Most atheists are highly partisan Democratic assholes anyway.
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2016, 08:04:54 PM »

Cruz - May have been guilty of manslaughter as a college student.
Donald "The U.S. has become a dumping ground" Trump - Easier to think of stuff he hasn't done.
O'Malley - Cursing about the blacks.
Kasich - Cracking a rather horrible joke about the Clintons in the late 90's.
Santorum - Saying something about athiests being stupid.
Rubio - Gay stuff/Money laundering.
This is 'Murica. We don't like atheists. That would cause Santorum to go up in the polls. Most atheists are highly partisan Democratic assholes anyway.

Sadly, I agree. Rick Santorum commenting against atheists would cause him to rise in the polls. If, on the other hand, he made some sort of discriminatory comment against a non-Muslim religion, then his campaign would be over.
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2016, 09:14:39 PM »

Hillary - gets indicted for misuse classified information
Hillary - scandal about corruption involving pay for play with the Clinton Foundation and her decisions as SoS
Rubio - paid his mistress
Kaisch / Jeb - records from Lehman Brother's leaked
Cruz - no one actually likes him
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2016, 11:37:03 AM »

Bernie Sanders - money laundering or people find out he likes Karl Max
Hillary Clinton - actually gets indicted on the email scandal
Martin O'Malley - people find out he owns a Hummer
Donald Trump - actually closes down the internet
Chris Christie - it's revealed he actually had something to do with Bridgegate
Rand Paul - something about him smoking marijuana
Ben Carson - that he isn't a Christian & is actually just crazy
Marco Rubio - literally anything
Ted Cruz - ineligible to run because he was born in Canada
Jeb Bush - Columba is found to be an illegal immigrant
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2016, 02:14:08 PM »

Bernie Sanders - money laundering or people find out he likes Karl Max

But Karl Max was a huge FF who tried desperately to prevent WWI! Tongue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Max,_Prince_Lichnowsky
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2016, 04:20:14 PM »

Clinton - has concealed a moderately serious medical condition

Christie - is indicted over Bridgegate

Santorum - secretly gay

Huckabee - caught on tape giggling at how much money he's taken from his stupid supporters

Rubio - gets caught with a transsexual prostitute

Trump - leaked emails show his run started as a publicity stunt, and that while he is trying to win, he also doesn't take the race, or his supporters, seriously.

Cruz - in the middle of the next debate, explodes into screaming rage and physically assaults Kaisich on national TV, after Kaisich says something about his father not being a good American.

Bush - accidentally, over a live mic, admits he really doesn't want to be running for President, but was pushed into it by family and advisors.
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« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2016, 05:25:41 PM »

Rubio has a ton of rumors about him that I've heard at the various places I've been interning around town. I actually am starting to wonder if there is some truth to them.

I'm sure the Bush team has people scrounging around Florida looking for Rubio's love child. The only question is whether they'll find the kid in time.
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« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2016, 05:32:17 PM »

Cruz - May have been guilty of manslaughter as a college student.
Donald "The U.S. has become a dumping ground" Trump - Easier to think of stuff he hasn't done.
O'Malley - Cursing about the blacks.
Kasich - Cracking a rather horrible joke about the Clintons in the late 90's.
Santorum - Saying something about athiests being stupid.
Rubio - Gay stuff/Money laundering.
This is 'Murica. We don't like atheists. That would cause Santorum to go up in the polls. Most atheists are highly partisan Democratic assholes anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AINa22UR0S4&list=FLq9uYhdY8letSrxcIdkkFJQ
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« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2016, 05:51:22 PM »

Donald Trump: Insults the Jews (which he has done numerous times before)/Where to begin?
Ted Cruz: His mom goes on every major news network and tells everybody not to vote for him
Marco Rubio: Actually born in Cuba/Where to begin?
Ben Carson: Stabbed someone/Didn't stab someone/Where to begin?
Jeb! Bush: Announces he doesn't want to handle the pressure of being president, tells people to vote for someone else
Chris Christie: More bridgegate reports surface
Carly Fiorina: Something with HP
Jim Gilmore: Is actually a rotting roast beef sandwich

Hillary Clinton: Where to begin?
Bernie Sanders: Money laundering
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« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2016, 06:19:37 PM »

With the Iowa caucuses around the corner

We eagerly await for new scandals to break

Is Ted Cruz actually a foreigner?

Just how many women has Trump raped?

Will Bush unveil a Latin salad blend?

What if they catch Paul toking a gram?

Does Kasich have any black friends?

Will Carson get slammed for direct mail scam?

Did Rubio forgot to bring a condom?

What if Christie gets subpoena'd?

Did Sanders once praise Comrade Stalin?

Does Netanyahu even know Fiorina?

Clinton could be indicted for whatever,

and Santorum looks like a child predator.
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« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2016, 07:35:25 PM »

Reptillian shapeshifters from outer space: all of them.
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« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2016, 10:27:03 AM »


No scandal can ever befall Clinton. Her supporters have drank the koolaid, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the woman, and if you suggest otherwise, you're an idiot. (So yes, for the record, according to Clinton backers, I'm a big idiot...).
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