GOP: More Wings Than A Flock Of Geese

Hillary Clinton is officially running for President.  She's a Democrat.

Today, Marco Rubio announced he's running too.  He's a Republican.  ("Latinos for Republicans; that's like roaches for Raid." -- John Leguizamo)  Joining Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, Rubio now makes it officially Three Stooges in the Republican race, so far.  Many more Stooges will follow.

Democrats have an actual coalition and are fairly, not perfectly, unified.

Republicans have a bunch of disconnected special interest groups, often competing with one another for breathing space.  Their only chance for a GOP "majority" is to glom onto every selfish, greedy slimeball and paranoid, regressive half-wit they can find and try to hold 'em all together somehow.









The Republican party has more wings than a flock of geese (and just about as much crap):

• There's the Big Business/Big Money wing, occupied by the ultra-wealthy, off-shore One-Percenters.
• The Big Medical/Big Pharma/Big Insurance wing.
• The anti-Obamacare/anti-healthcare access wing.
• The anti-immigration, racist wing.
• There's a wing for the anti-abortion nuts.  (Do you suppose the anti-abortion zealots who are so adamantly "pro-life" are also adamantly pro-death penalty?  I bet they are.)
• And there's a big wing for the anti-tax Tea Baggers and Norquistians.
• A very loud and lethal wing for gun nuts and the NRA.
• The neo-con militarists/war profiteers wing (Dick Cheney's "undisclosed location").
• There's the Koch wing for Big Oil & Gas/frackers/power companies, a.k.a. the polluters.
• And a wing for their enablers, the global warming deniers.
• There's one for the anti-public education/pro-charter school crowd.
• Another for the Libertarian/anti-government wing.  (Isn't it amusing that some who oppose government itself are so anxious to be a part of it?)
• A wing for the "privatizers" who'd do away with Social Security and Medicare.
• A wing for religious nuts, like those who believe God is an author and Jesus founded the USA.
• One for homophobes who think prejudice is "religious freedom."
• Another for Islami-phobes, anti-Semites, and haters of anything non-Jesus.
• There's a wing for the voter suppression strategists who believe politicians should choose the voters, not vice-versa.
• And, of course, one for the We-Hate-Obama, It's-All-His Fault deep thinkers.

It takes a shitload of candidates to pander to such a wide-ranging collection of, uh, tastes.  In the equivalent of a political demolition derby, there may be as many as 16 Stooges in the GOP race before the dust settles.  It promises to be a target-rich comedic environment!

It'll probably come down to the Dueling Dynasties, but even if it's Hillary vs. some non-Bush, the choice will still be clear:  If you want to vote away your health care, your Social Security retirement, and your clean air, land and water, go ahead and vote Republican.  If you prefer less crazy in your politics, please try the Democrat.
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"80% of Republicans are Democrats who just don't understand what's really going on."
-- Robert F. Kennedy