Today In 2016

Like all human activity, polls (even the supposedly scientific) are meaningless bullshit, but the has-beens, never-weres, wanna-bes, would-bes & even the no-fucking-way-in-hells are thick on the Grotesquely Obtuse Party ground.

Regrets, I've had a few ...

Here are the Q ratings of eleven potential sacrifices on the altar of Hillary "Dead Broke" Clinton's unbridled lust for power & corporate dominance:

Any of the doofuses listed could say anything at any time that will confuse or alienate so-called normal people. Not that any of them will need to once the lamestream liberal media starts playing the recordings & linking to the statements they've already made.

Note well that not even Rs & R-leaners give any of the theocratic Randian fucksticks a net favorable over 50.

So numbed by the mere contemplation of these drones I almost forgot the Gallup executive summary:

• Mike Huckabee ran for the GOP nomination in 2008, and he has been an active radio and television personality in the years since. At this point, he reigns as the single candidate with the best combination of familiarity and net favorability among Americans who identify with or lean toward the Republican Party nationwide.
• Paul Ryan was Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee in 2012, and as chairman of the House Budget Committee, he is regarded as the GOP's resident expert on budget issues.
• Rand Paul has been active in nationwide politics since winning the U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky in 2010, taking strong libertarian-oriented positions on several issues, similar to his father Ron Paul, the former Texas representative, who had multiple presidential bids.
• Rick Perry unsuccessfully sought the 2012 GOP nomination. He has recently been in the news regarding the border crisis in his state of Texas, where many young immigrants from Mexico and Central America have crossed the border.

Two other possible GOP candidates are as familiar to Republicans as these four, but they both have below-average net favorable scores: Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Despite Jeb Bush's staus as the son of a former president and the brother of another, Republicans' familiarity with him is no higher than any of the other possible candidates tested. Perhaps because some Republicans continue to have less than positive memories of his brother, Bush's unfavorable rating of 19% is the second highest of any of those tested. Chris Christie has the lowest net favorable (+10) of any candidate tested, with 39% holding a positive opinion and 29% a negative opinion.

Three other candidates have below-average familiarity, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen.Marco Rubio, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Of these, Santorum, a very active candidate for the GOP nomination in 2012, has the lowest net favorable rating.

The final two candidates measured -- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov.Scott Walker -- are familiar to less than half of Republicans and have net favorable scores that are slightly below average.

What about John Thune sweeping down from the prairie? Remember?