cinco de mayo: THE FIELD OF GOP CANDIDATES WAS PLENTYFULL AND THEY ARE ALL LOSERS

We can go back to April and see how this whole circus parade began and now that it is in its final legs it doesn't seem to get more ridiculous. The GOP is without a viable candidate!

CBS/NYT Poll: Who are the Republican candidates (and can anyone who GOP voters like actually win)?

by DemFromCT Thu Apr 21, 2011

The graphic above from the NY Times about their most (in April) recent CBS/NYT poll sums up the problem for Republicans: since the GOP is all tea party all the time (see the media attention given to Eric Cantor, the Donald and the junior and senior Pauls), the candidates whom the GOP really gets excited about can't win the general. In fact, Mike Huckabee (who has never shown himself either an overly hard worker or a good fund raiser) has the best "all voter" favorable minus his unfavorable at an anemic +7, while Republican tea party stalwarts like Palin (-29) and Gingrich (-14), liked well enough by GOP primary voters, do abysmally with "all voters".

The Donald, was the GOP's heart throb and Clown Caucus chairman, comes in at an all-voter -21, so he's in Palin territory but without the love from the GOP. In fact, he barely breaks even there, despite the media attention from the pack animals in the press. The other Clown Caucus members, including Bachmann and Santorum, aren't well known enough to dislike by the general public and even within the GOP don't spark any recognition.

And the Very Serious (But Very Flawed) Candidates? That would be Pawlenty, Barbour, Daniels and Huntsman. It's pretty clear from the polls that no one even knows who they are, and that's even with GOP voters. (most of which are out of the picture by now)

Conclusions? It's very hard to find data to support a case that:

• T-Paw has caught fire (or has any chance to do so)
• Romney will be any better liked in the fall than he is in the spring
• Trump is not a serious candidate
• Daniels and Huntsman can ride an enthusiasm wave out of obscurity
• Anyone is ahead, and this somehow helps Romney, the likely nominee

I've made an argument elsewhere that Huckabee is the real front runner, but that may be only because he's not running.

Oh, and one more thing: drop the nonsense about birthers being a "small subset" of Republican voters (see Top Republicans try to scotch birther theories.)

The data:

Over all, it showed that Republicans who are considering making presidential bids will have to woo a party that largely identifies with the Tea Party movement — more than half of Republican voters said they considered themselves Tea Party supporters — and has questions about President Obama’s origin of birth.

No longer will his show be called “The Aprentice”, it could easily substitute “The Biggest Loser”

A plurality of Republican voters, 47 percent, said they believed Mr. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in another country; 22 percent said they did not know where he was born, and 32 percent said they believed he was born in the United States.

Welcome to the 21st C Republican Party. Two parts ignorance, three parts insanity.

And that's just their economic plan.

For good measure; try adding all kinds of radical, scorch-earth initiatives to do away with all the safety nets and any program that has had any success since FDR’s New Deal. Republicans hated them in those days and continued to do so until the present. Only now they are making no bones about it. They want to change the nature of America, the want to alter the compact our government has had with its people and it hurts…it hurts the middle class, the retired and anyone without the means to get health insurance. It does hurt labor and even abolishing child labor laws.

Perhaps the GOP should consider nominating the real bosses of the Republican Party…the two brothers would share the Presidency equally: 2 years each. But then we would have to abandon the tittle of "PRESIDENT" and adopt a new one: THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESS EMPERORS OF ALL AMERICA.

As if all that wasn’t enough, you also have a visceral dislike for anything and anybody either educated or different. The Republican-Teahadist has always disliked minorities but the difference now is that they are actively making laws that denigrate, humiliate and impact minorities outright. They are no longer hiding behind a veneer of hypocrisy, they come right out ant tell you that there should never have been a black elected to the White House and that millions of Hispanics have to be deported. Blacks? With blacks is imperative that we return to the pre-civil rights environment and that they stop voting and being educated.

“They are taking away my America”, was the battle cry of these Teabaggers all during the summer of 2009 and it is their biggest fear…that they are relegated to a minority that will be displaced from their lofty place in society. Curiously, they too will be displaced and brought to their knees by the very rich and the corporations. That is the reason it doesn’t make any sense to me and to many that these Tea Baggers are defending the interest of the super rich when they don’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.