Well now, you've been, depending upon the media critics in play, been the referee for a free-for-all in which you have no authority or corralling the Clown Parade where the seltzer and face paint has rendered the entire parade into looking the same.
Its time to clean house a little. Don't you think?
You might want to lean on the oldsters who are running. Ten of the 17 candidates running are 60 or older (Christ, Pataki is 70 and Trump will be 70 by the time of the Convention) Other than them, you have a handful guys in their 40s and 50s. You have 3 governors and 4 Senators under the age of 60 running.
Just so we are clear, the GOP is the party of old white men. The average age of the standard bearer for the GOP since 1960 is 67! If you take Nixon out, its 71 years old. Are you nuts? The millennials have enough trouble voting for Dad's older brother let alone Grandpa. Since 1960, the Democrats have had the oldest candidate in 1968 and 2004.
I guess you are figuring with Obama that experience is a non-issue. But if you look at experience, you have bigger problems.
Clinton has been elected and reelected in NY and has been Secretary of State. Sanders has held elective office since the 1980s and has been elected statewide in Vermont since 1988. Martin O'Malley is a 2 term mayor of Baltimore and a 2 term Governor. Chafee has held elective office in RI since 1992. Jim Webb has the least experience with 6 years in the Senate (but he was Asst. Sec of the Navy and Sec of the Navy under Reagan for 4 years. BTW Webb has more Senate experience than Cruz, Rubio, and Paul.
You have some "golden boys" in there but take Kasich, Jindal, and Bush out and you have political hacks (Santorum, Huckabee, Walker, Graham, and Pataki), hatchet men (Rubio, Cruz, Paul, and Christie) and the bottom-feeders and the wealthy.
Both Fiorina and Trump are so much trouble its not even funny. Does Trump understand that he can't fire the Vice President? Does Carly know that running for office and/or being fired from a job are not actually credentials?
And back to the age and experience problems. You do realize that Obama picked a VP nominee who had been in office for 36 years and was widely considered a master of the legislative process.
Who are your VPs? Jindal, Christie, and Walker might be a good idea, but none of them have federal experience.
Bill Clinton had 10 years in Arkansas government and picked a VP with 16 years of federal experience. Dukakis with 10 years as governor took an old Senate hand as did Carter who had 8 years in Georgia government (4 as governor). Neither Lieberman nor Edwards turned out to be great shakes as VP candidates but the top of the ticket in both cases boasted 20 plus years of federal experience.
So I might have some ideas for winnowing the field. I'll let you think about the above for a day or two and then write again with my plan.