“RUNNING for office is real simple,” Ted Cruz told supporters in New Hampshire recently, within earshot of a Politico reporter. “You just surgically disconnect your shame sensor. Because you spend every day asking people for money. You walk up and say, ‘How are you doing, sir? Can I have money? Great to see you, lovely shirt, please give me money’.” This year should be a good one for shame surgeons: the Republican field for 2016 so far consists of 20 men and one woman who have either declared their candidacy for president, set up the machinery for a run or expressed an interest in running.
Making sense of this stampede requires sorting them into categories. We have come up with six (see table). Of the 21 only six candidates—the A-listers and the Dark Horses—look plausible. Most pundits have been too quick to discount Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, who reminded them why his candidacy might be interesting by announcing support for raising the retirement age and means-testing Social Security, two things that are usually considered the electoral equivalent of drinking weedkiller. The same is true of...
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