Buehrle>Wood

Frazier caught stealing

Lawrie bomb

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 12:49 PM) The Washington Free Beacon appears to be the source on this, and they say: Per OpenSecrets, Clinton has self-funded her campaign with $468,037, so she's still net-negative. It appears that her and Trump are the only candidates to contribute self-financing so far (though Trump obviously at a much higher level). They also say this, which seems to contradict itself: Donald Trump didn't record payments to himself, but he did have "reimbursements"? What's the difference? Part of Trump's financing is loaning the campaign money so Id guess it'd be getting a little of that back whereas Clinton pays herself as an employee from campaign donation money.

So today's scandal is that Hillary paid herself 250,000 in campaign funds. No other candidate did so. Does anyone care?

Kasich has to say that because he's still in the race. I think Romney enters himself after Rubio drops out (when he loses Florida) to try and force a brokered convention. I think he embarrasses himself even more than he already has and it fails to get there. Cruz says he has no interest in a brokered convention. I believe him. He's not an establishment guy and that's more their power play. Hell support Trump and if Trump can win the GA it will benefit Cruz. Trump likes Cruz a lot even though it's not evident on the debate stage. Paul Ryan I don't see it. Trying to do this could be a career ender if anything goes wrong. Hell, even if he won a brokered convention there'd be a huge revolt within the party and the nominee would get destroyed in the general. Ryan is too young to take that risk. Everyone knows he can be a great future candidate. No need to go down that path now. Romney has nothing to lose so I can see him going for it. I just dont see it working out.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA Trump is an egomaniac. The dude really doesn't care about GOP, he cares about himself. Thank the lord.

I thought he was in jail or something to be honest.

Kasich would get completely exposed if anyone actually cared about him. He also needs to realize nobody thinks well of Ohio.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 11:03 PM) Why does it matter what prison as long as he is indeed in prison? Do you plan on visiting? Trying to get thrown in said jail to get your punches in? Not going down gregs path here but I imagined that was public info for due to similar reasons on why the first part of the sixth ammendment exists. I guess once you're actually convicted you lose rights, but still.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) Debate should be interesting tonight. Fox has stopped supporting Rubio according to reports. They were very complimentary of Trump on Tuesday. They absolutely destroyed Romney for what he pulled today. Are they ready to embrace Trump? Oh wow I couldn't be more wrong. Fox went all in with the campaign assasination attempt. Prepared slides, carefully clipped videos and all only for Trump. Pretty shameless. Trump handled it though and the establishment continues to embarrass itself.

Isn't Illinois winner take all? http://abc7chicago.com/politics/why-the-il...atters/1226252/ "There also may be a possibility Trump can win the popular vote in Illinois, but not the delegates. The primary here is not winner take all; Democratic and Republican delegates are chosen by congressional district." ABC says it's not. I'm pretty confindent it is. I get delegates are directly elected here but if it's winner take all it seems they'd still be bound to the winner. The only thing I can think of is it might make a difference at the brokered convention. I.E. Rubio wins district 1 but Trump wins the state. Rubios delegates have to vote for Trump at the conventionn at least the first round. Am I understandino that right? ABC still seems wrong then.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 03:59 PM) You are getting such strong pushback because the usage of Robert Byrd as a tactic to deflect is very common, you aren't the first to do it. That wasn't me though. I never brought him up.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 03:53 PM) Also, buehrle is getting the response he does, because Republicans have continuously comforted themselves with "Robert Byrd was in the KKK and he was a democrate, who are the real racists!??!" and "The south during the jim crow era were Democrats!" without any critical thinking about those items. It's a part of the longstanding tradition of only understanding racism in America as a rhetorical device. Me? Little lost here.

Debate should be interesting tonight. Fox has stopped supporting Rubio according to reports. They were very complimentary of Trump on Tuesday. They absolutely destroyed Romney for what he pulled today. Are they ready to embrace Trump?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 03:05 PM) first post, this page: Republican thread: GOP Presidential frontrunner acting as if he doesn't know who David Duke is and that he'd have to "look into" white supremacist groups before distancing himself from them. Yes. The KKK should not be given the media attention they get. They need to go away and what extremely little relevance they have is tied to media headlines. They exist in the backwoods of backwoods states.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 01:57 PM) Some people have noticed that Trump has only repeated "I disavow" without specifically naming or criticizing the KKK, David Duke or white supremacist organizations. (link is to MoJo, but also contains link to similar thoughts from National Review) The graspsling of all grasps at straws.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 12:50 PM) What is the point of the GOP rallying against Trump? They made him sign an agreement the he wouldn't run 3rd party if he failed to get the nomination, but they obviously aren't playing fair. I think if they somehow succeeded, it would lead him to run 3rd party and be a guaranteed loss for the GOP. The agreement was both ways. Be fair to each other. The GOP hasn't kept up their side of the deal. If it continues, he absolutely should run 3rd party and destroy the gop.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 3, 2016 -> 11:35 AM) They should though shouldn't they? He can't win the general. Isn't that the whole point? Hes the best shot they have and they know it. It just scares them that they can't control him to be a puppet. And no they shouldn't go like this if they want to stop him. This stuff just fuels trump voters. Trump is playing chess while the establishment is playing checkers.

Not sure the establishment could geat more pathetic if they tried. Nevermind, they totally will.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 07:56 PM) Greg, if Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell were running for president this year, would you be making the same accusations towards them, since they basically did the exact same thing she's accused of? (Actually with Secretary Powell, he also---unknowingly, since he was obviously lied to---lied to the United Nations on behalf of the president, so you can add that as well.) Just for the record what they were doing was not the same as Hillary. They had their own state department emails.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 04:45 PM) The FBI is not specifically investigating Clinton, and their ongoing investigation is not criminal. Who knows what will come of it but the investigation is definitely criminal. -Washington Post -New York Times The big news is someone was granted immunity. That person is presumably singing to investigators right now. Sounds like we'll find out in a couple months if anything will happen.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 07:46 PM) Actually he hasn't spent all that much. The media loves him and gives him an ungodly amount of free airtime - more than basically every other candidate combined. He's making news networks and news shows money, but he's not buying ads. His total spending is so low that the smaller networks that were hoping for an ad revenue bonanza from this election are suddenly sending out official worried statements about their expected 2016 profitability. I just meant it relatively. Even the least amount spent on a presidential campaign is still a lot. He gets free airtime yes, but very rarely is that for good reasons. The old slogan no publicity...may apply though. The ad stuff is hilarious. Good article.

Some major spoilers going forward. First one involving Roman and Raw. Second on is about a WrestleMania match not yet announced.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 06:12 PM) Those numbers are absolutely appalling to me. I can't even fathom how that is truly necessary. Makes you understand why no one could possibly get into the white house without being controlled to at least some extent. The reality is it doesn't have to be that way as you should be able to leverage the media for free to get your attention. Would it be that wrong if we just switched to having extra debates, etc and a hard limit on how much each party can spend (and just outlawing super pac's)? If you have your point, make it in the debates and through free media appearances. How in the hell could something cost that much. That is just absurd. And now you see some of the appeal of Trump. He's throwing in big money himself but at least it's his own and not 10 different mega corporations telling candidates exactly what to do and say. You also see why the gop and media hate him so much. Can't control what you're not paying.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politi...ntion_wild_card So does anyone believe charges will actually be brought?