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The GOP is running out of crazy.
Those who haven’t carved out their niche will get more desperate.
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about how ridiculous the Democrats looked on the primary debate stage. At the time, there must have been nearly twenty candidates still in the race. It became a running jokes on Dem-supporting media that no one could name them all, even after they’d spent three hours watching them on T.V. the night before.
I wrote:
“Having several candidates of the same party kicking lumps out of each other, airing the party’s dirty laundry on national TV just months before a general election — what could be better? Hey, let’s get a piece of that, the Democrats said”
Everyone now knows how the story ended. The most well known candidates lasted until the end, namely Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, whose name I.D. was already extremely high in April 2019. Incidentally, one of the first pieces I published here predicted that the protracted primary process would simply result in Joe Biden winning. Admittedly, that was one of the very few predictions I did get right.
The lesser-known candidates were well aware of their predicament. They only had a limited amount of time to increase their standing in a very crowded field. To gain attention, they had to think outside of the…