The possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate straight-out called Trump "a racist" as he marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a town hall event in South Carolina.
They will stand their own candidates straight from the Institute of Public Affairs and they will place their own people in the tax office and in the big four accounting firms.
Now that she has the candidates straight, and their party affiliations, she will vote party-line as she always has, and as her parents did before her.
Meanwhile, other candidates straight from Obama's orbit — such as former vice president Joe Biden and former housing secretary Julián Castro — are also eyeing the nomination, with appeals to unity and centrist perspectives.
"It's scary for companies to commit to bringing candidates straight to an onsite without doing technical screening because each onsite is 4-5 hofrs of engineering time spent," he told me.
Thus, Dean manages to cast himself, like John McCain, as the candidate of "straight talk," when in fact his straight talk seems calibrated not to offend.
Intercutting between snapshots of London streets and footage of the candidate speaking straight to camera, the broadcast outlines Mr Dobson's policies on transport, jobs, playgrounds, health and drugs.
It seemed that when they interviewed potential licensees in Northumberland the first question they asked was "Do you enjoy working with people?" and if the answer was affirmative, they threw the candidate out straight away.
The three participants are perennial presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, straight man Martin O'Malley, and life-long Marxist Bernie Sanders.
Nonetheless, Mitt Romney is the perfect Republican candidate: a straight, religious, white man who is rich and can self-fund his campaign.
