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May 14, 2007

Steve Chapman asks why omnibus presidential candidates make the rest of the media so angry.

Comments

|5.14.07 @ 7:42AM|#

I want Bill Bradley, Newt Gingrich, Walter Mondale, George Bush, Nancy Reagan (it worked for Mary Bono,) Penn Gillette, Will Smith, Tom Selleck, and Robert Redford to enter the race. Plus Mr. You're So Vain, Madonna, Cher, Rosie, Charlie Daniels, Dwight Yoakum, and Jon Stewart with Steven Colbert (in a false-unity ticket) could liven things up and make me care again. Maybe the Facts of Life actress who played Blair would make an ideal Right to Life candidate. Kirk Cameron could be her running mate.

Whatever takes time away from the Rudy RomneMcClinton front runner drones is good with me, since I'm hoping Richardson becomes Number 44. If the Republicans could get that former New Mexico governor into the race, they'd probably have a better party.

Bill Gates and Lee Iacocca should run as independents. But if Trump runs, the Secret Service should be defunded.

Fluffy|5.14.07 @ 8:14AM|#

The funny thing is that this piece has already been pushed around the web so assiduously by Ron Paul supporters that I didn't even have to come to Reason to find it.

You guys have been technoratied this time! Old news baby!

|5.14.07 @ 9:07AM|#

I agree with Chapman. What's wrong with more choices? Especially at this, the early primary stage, I see no reason to exclude anyone unless we want to restrict the choices to the handful that the $ and media elites take "seriously." But it's hard to tell who may catch on at this stage. The elites did not see Jerry Brown or Pat Buchanan's strong showings years ago in several primaries (sadly when they did show strong the elites circled the wagons, gave tons of $ and time to the 'correct' candidates and made sure we got them). Their strong runs added interesting chances for some unorthodox ideas and added to the policy debate in my opinion.

|5.14.07 @ 12:55PM|#

The elites are always worried about too many choices and the potential for the lame-brained citizen to make the wrong decision. That is the nature of the nanny state.

|5.14.07 @ 1:04PM|#

Democracy at work ladies and gentlemen

|5.14.07 @ 1:15PM|#

I for one will be seriously relieved when this thing is over and more relieved if it doesn't sound the first shot in a civil war. You won't find me within a mile of a polling place come election day of the Primaries, so I won't be adding to the chaos or the disappointment. I also won't be in the way of loony acts of violence which might break out. And the week of the general election we plan to be far, far away. Good luck and keep watching your back!

|5.14.07 @ 4:45PM|#

The more the merrier and the uglier
and dirtier the better.
I love watching politicians slandering
each other. I love it! And the more
we can get into the fray the better.

|5.14.07 @ 9:07PM|#

Politics shouldn't be a beauty contest, it should be a rugby scrum.