Former corporate executive Carly Fiorina joins Dr. Ben Carson in the Republican vice-presidential sweepstakes, although both of them must first pretend that they're seriously contending for the top slot, to which Mitt Romney will lay claim once he discovers that "circumstances" have changed.
So that's three for the first debate. Very doable in a Des Moines television studio. But if all the GOP contenders wish to appear, debate planners will need to move the spectacle to a cornfield. Because so far (and this is by no means an exhaustive roster) we also have Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Mike Rogers, John Bolton, Mike Huckabee, Marsha Blackburn, Michele Bachmann, Rob Portman, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Mike Pence, Peter King, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, John Kasich and Donald Trump--all have expressed interest in losing to Hillary.
Twenty-five of them ... and counting ... and every one of them convinced on delusional stilts that next time will be the GOP's time; all of them chanting tax cuts! and executive humility! (excepting the corpulent one) and smaller government! and trillions more on defense! (well, 24 of them, anyway).
Me? Today I feel like rooting for Marsha Blackburn. I'm dying to know if, over the more than adequate span of two years, any journalist anywhere can get the congresswoman to directly answer a direct fucking question.
Carly should feel free to hop into the clown car as an actual presidential candidate. Being on the ground here in California in 2010 when Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown unleashed epic thrashings on Carly and Meg Whitman was one of the most satisfying moments of my 15+ years as a California resident. I'd be happy to watch it happen again.
Posted by: Turgidson | September 26, 2014 at 06:02 PM