Washington Post Editor Fred Hiatt asks, “Where are the serious Republican candidates?”
It could be that the process has devolved, for some, from daunting to repellent: the number of millionaires whose egos must be stroked on the way to raising $1 billion, the smears from unaccountable political action committees, the dwindling media interest in substance, the Twitter-paced cycle that makes the Clinton war room look like something from the vacuum-tube era — it may be a quadrennial bar to many people of quality.
I believe the answer is simple.
The lack of effective Republican candidates are because the only way to garner right-wing support is by playing to the extreme of the Republican party. Unfortunately, that shift to the right that makes you attractive as a “conservative” candidate will bury you in the general election… and moderates have no place in the “New” Republican party.
Like it or not, it looks like four more years!
Read the post here.
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