2016 Postmortem
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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 doesnt 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 arent 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?
in full:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/trail-to-the-chief-2016-g_n_7464310.html
libodem
(19,288 posts)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.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)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)Koch money, I guess...which is pocket change for those two.
libodem
(19,288 posts)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.