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id you know that there are now 29 declared candidates for the 2016 Republican Presidential election? What is going on here? There has to be some kind of little known financial benefit to just declaring you are a candidate for president. Has to be! No, I don’t know half the people on this list. This is complete idiocracy.<\/p>\n

As a general rule, in the 11 year existence of this blog, I specifically try NOT to talk about politics. But, there are times, when this “industry” completely “Jumps the Shark” and BEGS for you to comment, think, or facepalm yourself in reaction.<\/p>\n

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1. Skip Andrews\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
2. George Bailey\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
3. Michael Bickelmeyer\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
4. Kerry Bowers\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
5. Jeb Bush\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
6. Dr. Ben Carson\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
7. Eric Cavanagh\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
8. Dale Christensen\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
9. Chris Christie\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
10. Ted Cruz\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
11. Brooks Cullison\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
12. John Dummett, Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
13. Mark Everson\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
14. Jack Fellure\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
15. Carly Fiorina\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
16. Jim Gilmore\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
17. Lindsey Graham\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
18. Jim Hayden\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
19. Chris Hill\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
20. Mike Huckabee\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
21. Bobby Jindal\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
22. John Kasich\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
23. Michael Kinlaw\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
24. Bartholomew James Lower\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
25. Esteban Oliverez\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
26. George Pataki\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
27. Rand Paul\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
28. Rick Perry\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n
29. Ross Newland\u00a0\u00a0\u25c4 DECLARED<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, there’s no need to feel overwhelmed or exhausted. We only have 16 more months of this to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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