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Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 08:08 AM Jun 2015

Trail To The Chief: Republican Left Behind Edition

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Republican Left Behind Edition

Between now and August, the Republican presidential race will not be about “winning” anything. It will be about not being so invisible, so insignificant, so HOPELESS that Fox News boss Roger Ailes cuts you out of the first GOP debate, which Jolly Roger is hosting in the Mistake on the Lake on Aug. 6. So many candidates are in or entering the field that at least a half-dozen of them could be left out -- since Ailes has decreed that only the top 10, as measured by a poll of polls, will be allowed onstage.

So if you are a candidate, what you need is a niche, a shtick, a vivid stand on an issue (you may only need one) or perhaps even just a unique hairdo -- anything to get the two or three percentage points necessary to make the grade.

In a race that doesn’t really have any front-runners -- that, so far, is the electoral equivalent of entropy -- the only drama is in who will be left behind. And even if you were never thinking of running -- even if you aren’t even a Republican -- there is still a chance for you to jump in. We promise to include you in our next compilation of Republican Left Behind. For now, here they are, in ascending order of the likelihood that they'll actually make it to Cleveland this August:

RANK CANDIDATE PARTY Repiblican
1 YOUR NAME HERE
Is this a great country or what? Anyone can run for president, as the GOP primary is showing. If you're interested, email Trail to the Chief here.

2 MARK EVERSON
Who?

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Trail To The Chief: Republican Left Behind Edition (Original Post) Jefferson23 Jun 2015 OP
Makes me want to listen to libodem Jun 2015 #1
Grasping at straws, that's how I see these assholes. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #2
Clown Car libodem Jun 2015 #3
I agree, yet they're so dumb it is hard to imagine anyone giving them any money. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2015 #4
I think that is what they are in it for libodem Jun 2015 #5

libodem

(19,288 posts)
1. Makes me want to listen to
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 09:19 AM
Jun 2015

The AM stations for the chatter. They all seem to broadcast, Faux Snooze, between Beck, Limbaugh, and Hannity. Does that ass, O'Reilly, do radio? I'll bet that's rich.

Seven years ago, no one could be conservative enough, candidates, had to be all the way to the Right or they were just, Republicans In Name Only. That means really a Democrat. Right?

The whole conversation was driven far right authoritarian. You are with us or against us. They try to paint the Left as soft and weak on security and protection.

I would hazard a guess that whomever is currently being interviewed and discussed on "Rightwing Radio", right now, will spot your trend.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
3. Clown Car
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:21 PM
Jun 2015

Sums it up best. There must be money to be made for all these clowns to be in the race. It isn't love of county.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
4. I agree, yet they're so dumb it is hard to imagine anyone giving them any money. n/t
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 03:05 PM
Jun 2015

Koch money, I guess...which is pocket change for those two.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
5. I think that is what they are in it for
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 04:41 PM
Jun 2015

It's a professional politicians' living, I suppose. Must be nice to give the same speech, over and over, and make millions, being a spokes model, for the Kochs.

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