Nick Gillespie Why Republicans fall in love with inexperienced, no-hope candidates every four years. Conservative Republicans have finally called it quits with short-term former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (she lasted just two-and-a-half years in that position before quitting). The final straw, it seems, is the 2008 vice-presidential candidate’s recent speech at the “Iowa Freedom Summit” that has charitably been called “an interminable ramble,” “an extended stream-of-consciousness complaint,” and simply “bizarro.” So America’s most-famous snowbilly is out of the running for the 2016 Republican nomination. But what about all the other manifestly unqualified novices, jackasses, and publicity hounds that surface every four years when the GOP starts fishing for someone/anyone that can beat whatever sad sack of chum the Democrats toss in the water? Unlike the Democrats, who never stray far from career politicians when selecting a presidential candidate, Republicans always seem to be looking for some sort of otherworldly savior to waltz in and take the country by storm. Someone unsullied by, you know, much (if any) actual experience in holding office, winning elections, and governing on a daily basis. Though GOP voters typically end up selecting major-state governors (Reagan, Bush II) or long-serving, partly mummified senators (Dole, McCain), they spend a hell of a lot time in primary season dancing with some pretty strange suitors. Perhaps it’s the analogue to the longstanding and still-potent jibe that Republicans don’t really want to govern. They disdain the political process to such a degree that it takes them forever to pull the switch for a politician. Even the 2012 nominee Mitt Romney was touted more for his supposed business acumen as a turnaround specialist at Bain Capital than he was for his record as governor of Massachusetts. I’d argue, too, that Romney’s refusal to stand for reelection as governor in 2006 mirrored his party’s damaging dislike of politics. If you want to be president but can’t be bothered to actually learn how to govern, well good luck with that. more . . .
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Howard Dean, Dennis Kuchinich, Jerry Brown, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, even George Wallace, the democrats have at least as many skeletons in their closet.
response to OP thats the difference because your team does not pay income taxes or feeds at the govt trought... you all are proud of establishment candidates who take the interesting ideal and idea of single payer and turn it into screw the workers and help the insurance company programs. the 60% of the people who actually get screwed by that want people who are not part of that process to become the leaders... we don't want more corrupted polticians taking money from the crones to take away are freedoms and tax the hell out of us. the issue is getting that 60% to vote for one candidate.
You forgot Odumbo .... the head schmuck and then we have Wasserman-Schultz, Maxine Waters, ..............
Schmuck of the year ... or decade .. yes, it's Odumbo Taliban Are Not Terrorists, or So Says the White House http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-not-terrorists-says-white-house-220922680.html
And so appropriate that you would once again expose that your IQ < 60. Back in the day they called people like you retarded.