The Best & The Brightest

Saddle up for 2016, Republican mofos!

All fringed chaps, no cattle.

Sweet Blood of Jesus, is there a potential Republican candidate on or near the horizon who can possibly get the vote of anyone not in the lunatic 27%? Half of those whose names are bandied about were unable to achieve nomination in 2008 &/or 2012, & ambitious newcomers like Sens. Cruz & Paul, w/o previous or current accomplishments, are stuck being Ted Cruz & Rand Paul. (Good luck w/ the egomania & the daddy issues, fellas.) If Iowa elects hog-castratin' wannabe President-impeacher nutjob Joni Ernst perhaps she can be whipped into shape to run as a real ball-cutting woman, unlike that poseur Hillary R. Clinton.

Uh oh. Thought I was just going to be making fun here. (As if I ever intend to type a "think piece.") But semi-seriously, might the rat bastard Republicans, given the sorry state of the gelded horseflesh in their field, place a woman at the top of the ticket? At least if Mme. Clinton is the (inevitable, y'know) nominee of the other party, & remembering it's still a smidge under two yrs. real time before the Party of Two Bushes convenes in Cleveland to choose the lamb for the slaughter & that anything can & will happen in two yrs. Further thought suggests an older male to balance the ticket. Maybe (disgraced but not enough) former two-term Republican Vice-President Richard B. Cheney could run a selection committee sort of thing to find a suitably mature candidate.

Merely having the third female vice-presidential candidate of a major party will be next to worthless against the H.R.C. steamroller. Go big or go home, as the sports cliché goes, & running someone (anyone) who isn't an aging scold/rapacious businessman/both w/ colored hair in an expensive suit could be a big move. We were onto Sarah Palin before most of you; you may just have read it here first.

Not that we have binders of Republican women in the WEB OF EVIL bunker. It's been noted that prominent women, office holders or not, are, for whatever reasons, few & far between in the Republican paddock.

Superstar lady Senators? Damning w/ faint praise, Kelly Ayotte hasn't said anything remarkably idiotic that I can remember. Actually, all I remember of her is that picture w/ John McCain & Lindsey Graham while war somewhere was being cheered, which just proves she may be bloody-minded enough to be a viable hegemonic candidate.

Murkowski of Alaska? Let's see her finish at least one term before anyone gets any ideas, if you know what I mean. Not to paint any individual or region w/ a broad brush, of course.

Perhaps one of 2010's dynamic lady Republican duo of Electra Woman and Dyna GirlMeg Whitman & Carly Fiorina? (Still schadenfreuding their defeats, four yrs. later.)

O.K. then. Sounded good paragraphs above, but I may be completely wrong; the grass doesn't really seem greener where the Republican fillies are.

Horrid afterthought, & a certain sign of the apocalypse were it to happen: FOXNews on-air personalities? Gretchen Carlson or Megyn Kelly 2016?