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| FIORINA: Could she really be the GOP nominee? |
Yet
I’m now thinking there’s one very positive aspect to the Trump candidacy – one that
ultimately will benefit the electoral process in this presidential campaign
cycle.
HE’S
A WELL-funded (he can afford to pay the campaign bills out of his own pocket)
candidate who will chase away the weaklings who probably had no right to have
dreams of someday working at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W.
In
a candidate field that has reached as large as 17, two potentially-serious
candidates have already dropped out because they couldn’t even fake being
competitive against the Trump juggernaut.
Those
are former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and current Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – the latter
of whom announced this week he’s dropping out.
Both
of those governors had the paper “credentials” to be taken seriously. Yet
neither could get their act together enough to beat a guy who’s never held
elective office and has such a blowhard ego that he’s likely to be an
embarrassment if he were actually at the White House.
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| WALKER: Fell by the wayside |
AND
A GUY who’s got such a girl-chasing reputation that he makes Bill Clinton look
like a prude. Perhaps it wasn’t that the ideologues of our society weren’t
really offended by Clinton’s behavior with women – they were just upset he had
that “D” connected to his name.
Walker
thought he could take his union-bashing tactics in Wisconsin and apply them to
the federal government. Yet it isn’t going to happen.
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| PERRY: Will his ego make him run again in '20? |
Perhaps
someone like Gov. Bruce Rauner ought to keep that in mind. He acts as though he
wants to bring Wisconsin-style politicking to Illinois. But it would seem it’s
not a universal trait.
Walker’s
failure could become Rauner’s failure on a different scale. He could wind up an
equal failure if he doesn’t back off.
BUT
BACK TO the presidential campaign, which is now down to 15 candidates all
scratching and scraping for a lead while the actual leaders wind up having
something like 20 percent or so support.
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| Will we get this type of gaffe in '16? |
There
are bound to be more political dreamers dropping out, following the lead of
Walker and Perry – who ought to learn that his serious presidential bid was in
2012 when there was a brief time period when HE was the GOP front-runner.
Of
course, I remember back to all the times that Ronald Reagan ran for president
before he finally caught on in 1980 – remember that Chicago Sun-Times headline
saying that Reagan would take former President Gerald Ford as his V-P pick?!
So
I’m sure his ego is determined to try again, and again and again yet again.
ALTHOUGH
PERRY MAY be the polar opposite of Vice President Joe Biden, who now says he
may hold off his own presidential aspirations to 2020. His time, if it is ever
to come, IS now. Waiting could turn him into a “never was” with ease.
So
what should we think of the presidential field on the Republican side? It could
wind up that Trump, retired cardiologist Ben Carson and former Hewlett-Packard
CEO Carly Fiorina become the serious candidates – they’re the ones who show
something beyond 1 or 2 percent support in the polls.
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| TRUMP: When will his $$ wither away |
I
can’t say I’d support any of them (if you ever meet my step-mother’s brother,
he’s a California resident who still thinks Fiorina is a loon on account of her
2010 campaign for U.S. Senate from the Golden State). But the sooner the
Republican field gets whittled down to a manageable number, the sooner people
can figure out who to seriously vote for.
And
then, people can start thinking for real in terms of whom the Grand Old Party
can nominate for president – at which point, the Trump bluster withers away
into the nothingness it deserves.
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