New Acts For GOP Freak Show ?

I had been lulled into thinking that the Iowa straw poll would be the start of the eliminating of some of the weakest acts from the Republican freak show -- a compilation of some of the worst candidates for the presidency that any political party has ever offered. It looks like I was wrong though.

We did see one candidate exit the race. Tim Pawlenty, as crazy as he was, just wasn't far enough up on the crazy scale to satisfy the teabaggers now in control of the Republican Party. But he was replaced by an even nuttier candidate -- Texas governor Rick Perry. So the freak show rolls on with the same number of acts that it had.

And now it looks like instead of the field beginning to narrow, it will grow to include even more incompetents. Karl Rove (Bush's brain) is now thinking that Sarah Palin will stop teasing the teabaggers and toss her fur hat into the ring. He says her schedule is beginning to look like a candidate's schedule, and he's predicting that she'll enter the race in the first week of September. That ought to raise the level of crazy up into the danger zone!

But it doesn't stop there. George Pataki, the Republican ex-governor of New York, is also beginning to think that he should be the GOP nominee. NY1 is reporting that a spokesman for the ex-governor has confirmed that Pataki is "strongly considering entering the crowded race". And he could make an announcement as early as next week.

Then we have the ex-mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. He is still on the sidelines, but won't kill rumors that he is a possible candidate. I think he is hoping that the party establishment will beg him to enter the race after they finally figure out that Romney can't win.

And Romney does seem determined to shoot himself in the foot repeatedly. He had enough problems with his mormonism and his championing of a health care program in Massachusetts that looks nearly identical to the plan signed by Obama. But then he went out and insulted the millions of unemployed people by comparing himself to them as also being out of work.

Now, in the middle of a jobless recession that looks like its getting worse, he has pulled another political blunder. He has filed an application with the city of La Jolla asking permission to demolish his 3,009 square-foot, $12 million dollar, ocean-front mansion, and replace it with one about four times as large (11,062 square-feet). That ought to go over well with the hurting American public.

Then there's the duo of Rep. Paul Ryan and Governor Chris Christie. Rumors still say that both are considering entering the race because the present candidates are presenting no solutions to current economic problems, which is kind of a joke since the "solutions" they offer would just make the recession even worse (while destroying the safety net for Americans, including Medicare and Social Security). They have even had phone calls recently between the two of them over whether one of them should enter the race.

At this point it doesn't look like the field of GOP candidates will be narrowing antime soon. Instead, it will probably grow even larger -- maybe even reaching mob status.