General Discussion

applegrove

(118,677 posts) Mon Feb 9, 2015, 09:51 PM Feb 2015

2016 Republican Presidential Clown Car Is Packed and Ready To Go

2016 Republican Presidential Clown Car Is Packed and Ready To Go

by Hunter at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/09/1363377/-2016-Republican-presidential-clown-car-is-packed-and-ready-to-go

"SNIP...............

This Politico piece mentions George Pataki, Jim Gilmore, Bob Ehrlich, John (Mustache of War) Bolton, Rep. Peter (Terrorism (Funding) Expert) King and Carly (Demon Sheep) Fiorina as possible-maybe-just-putting-themselves-out-there contenders in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, which bodes very badly for all the Republicans seeking to tamp down on the party crazy. And oh how they are tamping. Tamp, tamp, tamp.

Republicans are hopeful that reforms to their presidential election calendar — a shorter primary season and fewer debates — will eliminate that circus element that damaged the party heading into 2012. The half-dozen candidates who have no chance of winning but are vying for headlines and spots on the debate stage could undercut that goal.

That doesn't include the supposedly "serious" candidates, mind you. The debate stage is already likely to sport at least several of Rick Perry, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee and the brother of the president that managed to wreck nearly everything he set eyes upon, all of whom are quite capable of making the party look terrible on their own, thank you very much.

On Wednesday, Bush was asked whether he was nervous that the 2016 Republican primary might resemble the chaotic jumble it was in 2012 — “the cantina scene in Star Wars,” as the questioner put it. The former Florida governor said he was hopeful Republicans learned their lesson. “I think there will be some discipline,” he said.

................SNIP"