General Election Nonsense

[Dylan]

I would like to have a thread in which general matters about the election can be discussed. I think this will reduce clutter and we can talk about various stuff without derailing other campaign threads but we don't have to start a new thread for something that might not warrant it by itself.

My first potential topic for this new miscellaneous thread (assuming it is not promptly beheaded by our moderator staff) is this:

Cruz failed to disclose loans from GS and Citi on his FEC report.

This looks so. damn. bad. for somebody trying to run as a political outsider. I think the loans were backstopped by his own assets and to me this is NBD, but DAMN this will not play well at all in the media or when it's inevitably raised in a debate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/us/po ... .html?_r=0

[John Galt]

Well it wasn't just that he was running a campaign as an outsider, it's that he claimed he financed his campaign with his life savings against monied interests. Oh also his wife worked for them. And it was like nearly a million dollars. And it was an "oversight" to not include it in disclosure. Whoopsie

You should link to an article tho

[Kane]

Yeah, just read about this. Trump could have a field day with this.

[The dane]

Would make for an effective negative add. Lots of money + illegally tried to keep it secret + Goldman Sachs ...

The only question is which ones of Cruz's opponents make the add.

[Dylan]

Well Cruz handled it masterfully by tying it entirely to the evil boogeyman NYT. Now if you bring it up you're on the libs' side.

That dude is amazing at this.

[Winchester]

[Dylan]

[The Comrade]

this country is an embarrassment

[Dylan]

Lol.nahhhhh. just republicans.