(These caricatures of the GOP candidates and the Koch brothers are by DonkeyHotey.)The GOP clown car, funded by master-clowns Davey and Charlie Koch and their friends, is starting to get full already. Last week there were three candidates -- Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul. Now there are three more. Ben Carson jumped in the race on Sunday, Carly Fiorina did it on Monday, and Mike Huckabee did it on Tuesday.
And this is not the end of it. The supposed leaders still have not officially declared their candidacy -- Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Chris Christie (although Christie's hopes are falling fast thanks to Bridgegate). That would make nine, but there are still others with a dream of getting the GOP nomination. Rick Perry, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Donald Trump, and even Sarah Palin are considering tossing their hat's in the ring (even though none of them has been able to drum up any support so far).
It looks like the proposed Republican debates will resemble a mass gathering of nuts more than it will a debate. Sadly though (or perhaps happily for the Democrats), every one of these candidates (and future candidates) is a political and religious extremist, and most (if not all) scares the hell out of most voters.
Here is the latest national poll on Republican voter preferences for the nomination -- done by the NBC News / Wall Street Journal Poll:
