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2016 presidential primaries

Wednesday 21st of January 2026

2016 Presidential primaries Candidates appear on television shows to show off their bad dancing in order to contrast their I'm-a-regular-guy self to Barack Obama © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries carlyfiorina.com home page contains images of 30,000 sad faces representing employees she fired while at Hewlett-Packard  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Fiorina goes down before Cruz in Indiana © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! Donald Trump, Hispanic outreach on Twitter, May 5, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries He deserved it. Next time, we might have to kill him. John McGraw, who sucker-punched a protester at a Trump campaign rally in Fayetteville, NC © 2016 Kwiple.com
o 2016 Presidential primaries I think you'd have riots. Donald Trump, when asked by a reporter what he thought would happen if he went to the Republican convention with a few delegates short of the number needed to win the nomination outright and didn't end up the party's nominee © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries If I am elected president, I will instruct my Attorney General to investigate Planned Parenthood on day one. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries It is getting to be like a  Sunni-Shia thing here within the party. Lindsey Graham, on the Republican Party after the 2016 South Carolina primary © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Jeb Bush's campaign never bought JebBush.com so its owner redirected it to Donald Trump's website © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Presidential? They were menopausal. Bill Maher, on Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio & Donald Trump braying at each other during the televised Feb. 25, 2016, presidential primary debate  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Republicans tempt voters with a plethora of lightweights and losers — Democrats, with fewer © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries THE SUGAR THE DADDY WARD Sheldon Marc Norman Foster Woody Jeffrey Charles & David Charles & David Charles & David Charles & David Charles & David Ken Joe Billy Joe (Red) Tom John Robert Haim Donald Alice  Adelson Benioff Braman Friess Johnson Katzenbberg Koch Koch Koch Koch Koch Langone Lonsdale McCombs McKernan Menard, Jr. Mercer Saban Trump Walton Rick Hillary Marco Rick Jeb Hillary Jeb Ted Rand Marco Scott Chris Rand Rick Rick Scott Ted Hillary Donald Hillary  Santorum Clinton Rubio Santorum Bush Clinton Bush Cruz Paul Rubio Walker Christie Paul Perry Perry Walker Cruz Clinton Trump Clinton © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries They had the effrontery, the unmitigated effrontery, the goddam gall to call them “debates”  © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries This is a strange election, isn't it? Man! You stab somebody and the newspapers say you didn't do it. And you say, “Yes, I did. I did it.” “No, you didn't.” “Yes, I did! I stabbed him and it hit the belt.” Donald Trump, on Ben Carson's insistence that, as a child, he tried to stab a classmate with a knife © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries This is how craxy this election is: a Latino and an old Jew can't win in Florida.  Larry Wilmore, The Nightly Show, March 15, 2016, after Marco Rubio lost to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders lost to Hillary Clinton in Florida's primaries © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries This is what happens when social and political elites disdain blue-collar white males and their families for decades on end © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries THE TIT THE SUCKER America Leads PAC America's Liberty PAC Believe Again PAC CARLY for America PAC Citizens for Restoring USA PAC Conservative Solutions PAC Generation Forward PAC Keep the Promise PAC New Day for America PAC Opportunity and Freedom PAC Priorities USA Action PAC Pursuing America's Greatness PAC Right to Rise PAC Run Ben Run PAC Security is Strength PAC Unintimidated PAC We the People Not Washington PAC Working Again PAC  Chris Christie Rand Paul Bobby Jindal Carly Fiorina Donald Trump Marco Rubio Martin O'Malley Ted Cruz John Kasich Rick Perry Hillary Clinton Mike Huckabee Jeb Bush Ben Carson Lindsey Graham Scott Walker George Pataki Rick Santorum © 2015 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Tom Donohue, of the US Chamber of Commerce, corporate America's top lobbyist, voiced his dismay at the presidential campaign. “I used to call the lead-up to the big national election ‘silly season,’ but given some of rhetoric and proposals that we're hearing from both parties, it's not silly; it's damn serious, and sometimes a little scary,” he said. Financial Times, January 15, 2016, on Wall Street's alarm at calls to end low tax rates on carried interest income © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries Trump Digs Coal Sign worn by unemployed West Virginia coal miners at a Charleston rally for Donald Trump, who promised to re-open closed mines  © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries We've been here for over two hours and we haven't gotten paid for our time. “seat fillers” interrupting Jeb Bush's last rally before the Iowa caucuses © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries You want to know what I will do as President? We'll kill terrorists, we'll repeal Obamacare, and we will defend the Constitution. Every single word of of it! Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential primaries You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. Donald Trump, when asked about the Ku Klux Klan after former Grand Wizard David Duke told Klansmen to support Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers On all three issues overwhelming majorities of likely Republican voters supported his [Trump's] positions: almost three quarters (73 percent) favored banning Muslims from entering the US, 90 percent favored identifying and and deporting illegal immigrants as quickly as possible, and 85 percent favored building a wall on the Mexican border. Ronald B. Rapoport, Alan I. Abramowitz, and Walter J. Stone, New York Review of Books,  June 23, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of Republican-primary voters who are “mostly embarassed” by their party's campaigns: 60 Of Democratic-primary voters: 13 Harper's Index, June 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say We picked up a lot of delegates, and we feel great about what the map looks like moving forward – especially when we get to my home state of Florida. Marco Rubio, after winning only Minnesota, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC in the 2016 presidential primaries and before losing badly in Florida and suspending his campaign © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say And when you're young, you're thinking, you know, where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie, or, you know they're for Bernie because that's where the boys are. Gloria Steinem, commenting on why young women support Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential primares © 2016 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. Madeleine Albright, commenting on young women supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential primares © 2016 Kwiple.com
Money in politics The Best Way to Vilify Clinton? G.O.P. Spends Heavily to Find It headline, New York Times, July 12, 2015, article about hundreds of millions of dollars Karl Rove's super-PAC, American Crossroads, and other Republican groups are spending developing and field testing attack ads smearing Clinton and her character © 2015 Kwiple.com
Obituary notice NOLAND, Mary Anne Alfriend. Faced with the prospect of voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the age of 68. Richmond [Virginia] Times-Dispatch, May 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots say Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie Are you moving me up, then! George Pataki, responding to a student who called him “something of a 2nd-tier kind of candidate” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Donald Trump © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie Let me be clear. Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Jeb Bush lost [in the 2016 presidential primaries] for many reasons, but the base one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley. Jeb Bush portrayed by Stuart Stevens © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot But if Jeb's campaign was born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it ended screaming in its high chair with strained peaches all over the floor. Jeb Bush's presidential campaign portrayed by Dare Lind © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What goes better with cheese than a cracker? Ted Cruz's victory in the 2016 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary explained by Bill Maher © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest After someone wrote “Trump 2016” in chalk on a campus sidewalk at Emory University, students erupt in protest, calling it hate speech that makes them feel unsafe © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Jeb Bush changes campaign slogan from “Jeb!” to “Jeb Can Fix It,” evoking images of ass cracks  and toilet plungers © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Jeb Bush tweets a picture of a gun with his name engraved on it and the caption “America” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Mommy and daddy have been thinking and talking a lot about this. We have decided we are going to be running for president this year. That's it. Bobby Jindal, announcing 2016 presidential campaign via a video shot by a camera pointing down on him, his wife and three kids from a tree and then posted on Facebook © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Reports of “Marcomentum” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Republican Party leaders shrieking, “I am shocked, shocked to find racists flocking to us!” while pursuing a Southern Strategy based on racial resentment since the 1960s --> © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest TRUST + TED = TRUSTED Ted Cruz 2016 campaign slogan © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it. I'm Carly Fiorina and I'm running for president. Carly Fiorina, announcing 2016 presidential campaign © 2015 Kwiple.com
  
Undecided voters To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down tha aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. ”Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?“ To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked. David Sedaris, New Yorker, October 27, 2008 © 2016 Kwiple.com