Three former governors, one sitting governor, one former US senator, one sitting US senator and the only woman in the field were aced out of starting positions at the Republican Goat Rodeo by a revival tent huckster, an openly batshit doctor and a thug-tempered carnival barker with a comb-over.

Congratulations, GOP. I'm sure, somewhere in the Great Beyond, Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower are looking down upon you...

...and trying to figure a way to nuke the entire party from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

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