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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is clear to me that the GOP is out to wreak the primary system by overloading it with
candidates. With each having a function to minimize the office of President.
Trump is the most dangerous because his function is to let the electorate know that it is ok to be stupid and a bigot like himself.
still_one
(92,396 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Fund a bunch of people who will split similar votes, so that the desired turd floats to the top.
That's how they got Romney through the primaries last time.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Pataki isn't a player.
brooklynite
(94,728 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Among those that go to the actual GOP primary polls (and not the nonsense media polls), you have maybe 75% unadulterated nutjobs, and 25% of what used to be relatively normal Republicans.
The nutjobs split into religious ones, libertarian ones, and people who play with their own poop.
So you get the religious nutjobs breaking among Huckabee, Santorum, Carson; you get the libertarians breaking among Paul, Cruz, and Perry; and you get the people who play with their own poop voting for Trump.
The objective is to make sure that nobody else's sliver of that group is larger than yours, even though ideologically any two combined would beat you.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)They know it's okay for them to be stupid and bigoted because it's who they are. It's the reality they live everyday.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Each billionaire has their own sock puppet.
djean111
(14,255 posts)GOP voters don't care about his record, are bound to be quite pleased by the havoc he has wreaked in his home state, and he looks GOP-safe. Bland. Pasty. And the Kochs will get what they want.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)Bernie gets Scott, Hillary gets Carly.
djean111
(14,255 posts)but ugh. I cannot think of one thing positive about her. And I am a woman.
Walker - pasty, bland, doughy, horrible. Willing to hurt unions and the poor. Practically perfect for the GOP.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)That's the main reason they are all trying to make more outrageous statements than any other, get noticed and the cash rolls in.
And if they do happen to get elected, man that's the grifting mother lode.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)these camdidates joining the ra e for the Republican nomination. They would not be able to coerice candidates to participate. These jokers are all doing this on their own. Not everything in politics is a conspriracy.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)player don't know there lines.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)in the areas of planning, ideas, and manipulation. I don't know who.
There is no way anyone can get 20+ GOP presidential candidates to do what you posted.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)400 days before the conventions.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)2016 election. There of course are others who have not yet declared their intentions to run.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)of pre convention competition between ward bosses and county bosses to assign people to go to convention as dedicated to a candidate for the first vote.
IMO, 20+ candidate this early has to be planned.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)election had 22 names on it. You didn't hear of most of them because they dropped out before the primaries just like most of the republicans will in this race.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_candidates,_2008
former9thward
(32,080 posts)Our modern primary system was unheard of.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Not just The Donald.