Reply #35: Curiously enough...

[sofa king]

... I distinctly recall Phil Gramm being the "inevitable" candidate at about this stage of the process in 1996. He had amassed a princely twenty million dollars for his campaign, much more than anyone before, and had started much earlier than anyone else (he had $8 million in the bag two and a half years before the general election).

But his race was spiked by Patrick Buchanan in Louisiana, and then Bob Dole became the inevitable candidate.

That's why I laughed when I heard that George Bush's mentally disabled son was running for President, and had a lot of money. "So what?" I said, "Pat Buchanan will show up to screw him over, too."

But Pat Buchanan wasn't there to screw him. He was there to screw us.