The Republican field is a clown car
By Dana Milbank
If you cant take a joke, Lindsey Graham has said , dont run for president.
Graham, a senator from South Carolina and one of umpteen Republicans running for president, can take a joke which is why he appreciates the absurdity that is the GOP field. There are far too many candidates (so many that there are concerns they wont all fit on a debate stage), and to gain attention they are juggling, tooting horns and blowing slide whistles like so many painted performers emerging from a clown car.
I do bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, weddings, funerals call me, Ill come, Graham told a crowd in New Hampshire last month. He said voters should ignore Hillary Clinton and look to the 35 people running for president on the Republican side. And just shoot up among us until you get one of us out of the tree.
There is little dignity for Republicans as they try to break free of the very large flock as Graham experienced Monday morning when he appeared on CBS This Morning to make what MSNBC reported would be a very important announcement.
CBS evidently wasnt impressed by the importance. Graham cooled his heels in the green room while the morning show reported on the Amtrak crash, trouble in Iraq, a biker-gang fight, the Mad Men finale, daredevils killed in Yosemite, murders in Northwest Washington and a great white shark who is on Twitter.
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