Well! We Republicans certainly have a variety of candidates to choose from in the competition for our party’s 2016 presidential nomination. Lest I be charged with showing some particular bias, I will list them out alphabetically: There is Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and the brother and son of two of our former presidents; Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and prolific author; Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey and a former U.S. Attorney; Ted Cruz, senator from Texas; Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO; Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina; Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor; Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor; John Kasich, governor of Ohio; George Pataki, a former New York governor; Rand Paul, senator from Kentucky; Rick Perry, a former Texas governor; Marco Rubio, senator from Florida; Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania; Donald Trump, real estate developer; and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. By the time this gets in print, maybe one or two others will have tossed their hats in the ring…
2016 could be a good year for us Republicans. If we capture the White House and hold onto the Senate and Congress that would be a triple play, a hat trick, the triple crown…
2016 is a century on from 1916. Let me only partially digress. Without looking it up, or at the bottom of this page, can any of my readers say who the Republican nominee for president was in 1916? As I said, the answer is at the bottom of my column. It is upside down and inside out, so you will have to flip the Sentinel around and hold it up to a mirror to read the answer…
The large field heartens me, though I do have some concerns. With sixteen in the race and counting, it seems we have a healthy sense of competition. I hope this competition will result in the interplay and clashing of ideas. I want the best ideas to win out. In contrast to the Democrats, who have only two candidates declared, I think the lack of a clear front-runner in the huge GOP 2016 field shows we are the party most committed to the marketplace of ideals. The Democrats are the party, it occurs to me, of rigid overgovernance. Government is a necessary evil. I personally want to put up with the minimal amount of its intrusiveness as is possible. Like General George Patton said, “Politicians are the lowest form of human life and Democrats are the lowest form of politician…”
I am an adherent of the 11th Commandment which enjoins me from speaking ill of any fellow Republican. But I am not prevented from speaking highly of one candidate over all the others…
I invite you to make your own comparisons. If you undertake such a comparison thoroughly and honestly, I do not think you can come to any different conclusion than I have. The candidate who stands, indeed towers, head and shoulders above the other Republicans and head, shoulders, chest, abdomen, pelvis, thighs and knees above the Democrats is Ben Carson. Do your own research and you will see I am right. I call upon my fellow Grand Old Party members to work with me to make him our next president. And to my readers who are
Democrats, I invite you to repent of your current political affiliation and convert to Ben’s cause now…
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