Standing room only these days
How many GOP Presidential candidates do we have now? It's hard to keep count, but it's well over a dozen who have officially announced. And more will be piling in after they've sucked up every nickel they can before official FEC rules kick in after their announcement.
As for my very own pimple on the ass of democracy, Scott Walker, he's not just biding his time fundraising, he's waiting until his RW Wisconsin Supreme Court majority murders the current John Doe investigation. That way he can finally campaign without having to answer pesky media questions about corruption and sleaze.
Yes, that decision was made long, long ago. It's so in the bag for Walker that the State Supremes, under new (bought and paid for) leadership, won't even be holding a hearing on the case. They'll simply be relying on "briefs". More than likely, they're waiting to release their decision until the end of the month, moments before they skip town for a nice summer recess. Timing is everything if they expect to avoid a public shaming by voting in favor of killing the investigation into the very same dark money groups that bought 4 State Supreme Court seats for them.
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Just needs clownish embelishments
The clowns are now so numerous they no longer fit into a car. Even a stretch limousine isn't big enough for their collective asses. Nope. A bus is now necessary to haul them from place to place to pander to their homophobic, tea bagging, welfare-hating, Fox (not) News addicted, Islamophobic, misogynistic, angry, bigoted, old, and easy to scare white base of voters.
And if they can't speechify in front of them, Fox (not) News will carry full coverage and the RW radio shills will be more than happy to have them on their numerous shows that saturate America with enough lies and propaganda to block out the sun.
How Did the Clown Car Get so Full?
Easy. It's all about the Benjamins for most of them.
They know they'll never inhabit or infest the White House, but financial freedom awaits even the most dismal candidate. A Presidential run, even a failed one, is the new Path to Riches.
Anyone who follows the conservative movement carefully could tell you that it’s about 25 percent politics and 75 percent mail-order scam. For more than half a century now, charlatans passing themselves off as conservative leaders have exploited ordinary conservatives’ anxiety about a changing America to collect addresses and now email lists in order to sell snake oil and raise funds that followers believe are going to political causes but frequently just line the pockets of the con artists. The conservative tendency to con their own people occasionally piques the interest of the liberal media. Media Matters, for instance, has run exposes on how conservative luminaries like Mike Huckabee and Scott Brown sold their mailing lists to con artists peddling fake “cures” for Alzheimer’s and cancer. Rachel Maddow has been reporting for years on how Newt Gingrich scams money off his followers through direct mail offers of “awards” and by trying to rope them into fraudulent investments.
Yes, they get to scam the suckers out of "I'm running for President" money, but the biggest financial plus comes later when they sell their mailing lists to every huckster with the bucks to buy it. They resell the same list over and over again and get to
keep every dollar for themselves. They don't get to do that with campaign money (but they can place friends and relatives in salaried positions).
Here's how they do it:
Those who have a less than current list of email suckers need to refresh their lists every so often. A nice Presidential run is just what the Political Doctor orders to freshen those lists. An up to date list is worth more than an old one. So, a brand new shiny Presidential run is needed.
Might be necessary
Considering that the Presidential election is almost a year and a half away and with so many Republicans climbing on board, a mega bus might not even hold them all. It might need to morph into a Clown Train.
That might not be a bad idea either. If Republicans see their dear leaders travel by rail, maybe they wouldn't be so anxious to keep cutting infrastructure funding. Or be as quick to cut Amtrak funding a day after a fatal accident. Seeing the hides of their Presidential wannabes riding Amtrak rather than just us peasants might go a long way in terms of changing their thinking on infrastructure spending.
Hey, maybe encouraging even more of these clowns to jump in and run might actually be useful....
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