[arthurus]

That is an outcome of the deal made between him and Bush. It is better for the Gopes if there is only one major gope running. He can lay back in the early primaries and use his cash shotgun to destroy the conservative candidates one by one while not contending in his own right, Then in the later primaries when the conservatives are all dropped out or too muddy for the voters, he will win as the last man standing. Then in November he will give it to the Democrat whomever that might be. The Democrats know this and will not worry about electability but will front the most ideologically fanatic candidate they have.
That, of course, assumes we make it to the end of the Sultan's official term.

[indthkr]

A very likely scenario....

[Nucluside]

I like the way you think.

[catfish1957]

Exactly. More proof of GOP(e) collusion

[alloysteel]

All it was ever about, was clearing the board for Jeb. Now, Jeb SHOULD have been running for President in 2000, but at the time, he had only two years as Florida governor to his credit, and he was considered to be “not ready” for the move.

History moves on some hidden pivot points at times, and we do not know what those points were until long after the fact. McCain and Romney were both less than enthusiastic about becoming the counterweights to an extremely important pivot in history, in which it was determined that the decay of the governing principles that had guided the territory once known as “the United States of America” should proceed without impediment.