GOP’s ’16 Consolation Vanishes: Suddenly, Democrats have the Deep Bench! (Joan Walsh) from Salon
"After Romney’s 2012 loss, pundits raved about the GOP’s new leaders. But two years later, Democrats have the edge"
There is so much breathless beltway "bubble-talk" here. In the real world, the GOP has not had a "deep bench" since 2000 (Bush v McCain et al.). Indeed, each successive cycle has seen "serious" candidates (Mitt, Jon Huntsman, and ... and... hmmm) increasingly displaced by clowns. The list of these latter folks is endless: Donald Trump, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sam Brownback, Pat Buchanan, and on and on and on. The fact that media types (like Walsh here, not the worst example by any means) have felt somehow compelled to treat these bozos as somehow "serious" denotes the larger decline in "serious" journalism. In election season, each GOP numbskull-of-the-month has to be treated with rhetorical kid gloves. Seemingly, only the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have the fortitude to say that these would-be emperors have NO CLOTHES! The main question now is -- are there going to be ANY serious candidates for the GOP in '16?
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