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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt Taibbi: The GOP Clown Car Rolls On
The GOP Clown Car Rolls On
On the campaign trail with the most dishonest, bumbling and underqualified pack of presidential candidates in history
By Matt Taibbi November 17, 2015
Not one of them can win, but one must. That's the paradox of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, fast becoming the signature event in the history of black comedy.
Conventional wisdom says that with the primaries and caucuses rapidly approaching, front-running nuts Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson must soon give way to the "real" candidates. But behind Trump and Carson is just more abyss. As I found out on a recent trip to New Hampshire, the rest of the field is either just as crazy or as dangerous as the current poll leaders, or too bumbling to win.
Disaster could be averted if Americans on both the left and the right suddenly decide to be more mature about this, neither backing obvious mental incompetents, nor snickering about those who do. But that doesn't seem probable.
Instead, HashtagClownCar will almost certainly continue to be the most darkly ridiculous political story since Henry II of Champagne, the 12th-century king of Jerusalem, plunged to his death after falling out of a window with a dwarf.
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Matt Taibbi: The GOP Clown Car Rolls On (Original Post)
kpete
Nov 2015
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dhill926
(16,346 posts)1. K & R...
a delightful read...except for the scary part that one of these pickyourpaths could conceivably end up as president...
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)2. The clown car metaphor has been apt for both this field and the 2012 field
MisterP
(23,730 posts)3. "Some accounts suggest that Henry might have survived if his servant had not landed on top of him"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II,_Count_of_Champagne
this is oddly depressing for some reason
this is oddly depressing for some reason