# The 2016 Republican candidates **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 9, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444 "2015-01-09T22:38:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 70
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1382 "2015-05-06T00:36:08Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Current Scorecard > > Announced: > > Paul > Rubio > Cruz > Huckabee > Fiorina > Carson > Santorum > > Expected to announce: > > Bush > Snyder > Perry > Walker > > Maybes and pretenders: > > Christie > Kasich > Graham > Pataki > Palin > Ferret Head > > Did I leave anyone out? Jindal? I’ve heard of the others, but who’s Snyder? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1383 "2015-05-06T00:39:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’ve heard of the others, but who’s Snyder? [Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder](http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2015/05/05/michigan-gov-rick-snyder-what-we-need-in-the-white-house-is-a-problem-solver-like-um-him/) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1384 "2015-05-06T00:39:16Z")
Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan. Jindal is running, so yeah, he was left out. A former head of the IRS is also running, don’t remember his name, but I figure that’s a significant enough resume item that he should be considered a legit candidate. So right now I count 15 likely candidates who will be serious enough to debate. That’s not counting Trump and Palin, who I figure aren’t doing it. The winner of Iowa could conceivably only get like 12% of the vote. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1385 "2015-05-06T00:43:16Z")
Here’s more on Snyder: [Rick Snyder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Snyder) And here’s more on Mark Everson, the former IRS head who’s running: [Mark Everson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Everson) Who’s “Ferret Head”? Or is that a placeholder for the next idjit to jump in? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1386 "2015-05-06T00:44:28Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > We’ve reelected pants on fire liars. We have never elected someone for the first time with such a reputation. Nixon already had the Tricky Dick rep by the time he first got elected President. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1387 "2015-05-06T00:44:50Z")
Is “Ferret Head” Trump? That thing on his head is more marmot-sized, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1388 "2015-05-06T00:57:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And here’s more on Mark Everson, the former IRS head who’s running: [Mark Everson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Everson) > [@](#): > > In August 2009, Everson joined alliantgroup, LP, a national tax advisory consultant, to advise the firm and its clients on matters related to the IRS and on strategic, operational, and client service initiatives.[1] What a poster child for the Revolving Door! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1389 "2015-05-06T01:13:55Z")
Not a good person to run against a candidate who got rich off the Presidency. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1390 "2015-05-06T01:57:16Z")
Yes, Ferret Head is Trump. He doesn’t take it seriously, so… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1391 "2015-05-06T08:40:57Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Current Scorecard > > Announced: > > Paul > Rubio > Cruz > Huckabee > Fiorina > Carson > Santorum > > Expected to announce: > > Bush > Snyder > Perry > Walker > > Maybes and pretenders: > > Christie > Kasich > Graham > Pataki > Palin > Ferret Head > > Did I leave anyone out? Here’s my list of names of candidates and proto-candidates: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich, Rick Snyder, George Pataki, Bob Ehrlich, Jim Gilmore, (Rep.) Peter King, Donald Trump, John Bolton. So you left out Jindal, Ehrlich, Gilmore, King, and Bolton. And I’m not including Palin; I haven’t heard a thing to suggest she might be running this time, not that anyone would care if she did: even the wingnuts are over her by now. I’m including Trump because he’s opening a campaign office in NH. Without something tangible like that, I’d leave him off too. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1392 "2015-05-06T09:03:36Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Anyway, Ben Carson has said he’s running for President. Shit just got real.🙂 More like “Reality just got shitty”, amirite? Ha? \ \ ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1393 "2015-05-06T12:38:53Z")
Ah yes, Bolton, I think he could actually be more serious than the coverage he’s getting right now. But he’s a little heterodox, a Joe Lieberman clone. He only appears conservative because he’s only ever held foreign policy positions in Republican administrations. But his voice should be heard in the debates. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1394 "2015-05-06T13:57:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Is “Ferret Head” Trump? That thing on his head is more marmot-sized, I thought. Comparison to any known **terrestrial** life form is misconceived. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1395 "2015-05-06T13:59:21Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Ah yes, Bolton, I think he could actually be more serious than the coverage he’s getting right now. [You can’t possibly mean that.](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1396 "2015-05-06T14:10:59Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Ah yes, Bolton, I think he could actually be more serious than the coverage he’s getting right now. But he’s a little heterodox, a Joe Lieberman clone. He only appears conservative because he’s only ever held foreign policy positions in Republican administrations. But his voice should be heard in the debates. Wait, what? The same John Bolton whose diplomatic approach boiled down to “We’re America, so fuck you” - _that_ John Bolton? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1397 "2015-05-06T14:58:58Z")
[What happened to your e-mails, Huck?](http://gawker.com/5789116/mike-huckabee-physically-destroyed-all-hard-drives-from-time-as-governor) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1398 "2015-05-06T15:03:16Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Wait, what? The same John Bolton whose diplomatic approach boiled down to “We’re America, so fuck you” - _that_ John Bolton? Hell, I’d pick **Roose** Bolton over him. “A quiet land, a quiet people.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1399 "2015-05-06T15:15:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Hell, I’d pick **Roose** Bolton over him. “A quiet land, a quiet people.” But not Michael Bolton. _Never_ Michael Bolton. \ ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1400 "2015-05-06T15:25:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > But not Michael Bolton. _Never_ Michael Bolton. > > \ You can’t just drop a name like that in a nice, quiet, friendly thread like this. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444/1401 "2015-05-06T16:11:25Z")
John Bolton as President is likely to result in us declaring war on somebody. The “other guy” (who’s name shall not pass my keyboard!) would be likely to result in everybody declaring war on us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2016-republican-candidates/709444.md?page=71)