Who’s Running for President on the GOP Side? Who Cares?

It is usually said that the Presidential campaign gets going on the Labor Day of the year before the vote. In other words, we are six months away from the start of the 2024 campaign. Which is still enough time for both parties to begin getting rid of the excess baggage which accumulates every time that someone pretends that they want to run a Presidential campaign.

Except in this particular year, it’s really only the GOP which has to start going through that exercise, because Joe is certainly behaving like an incumbent who’s going to be running again unless I’m completely wrong.

Meanwhile, across the aisle in GOP-land, the big question is whether Trump will be able to run a Presidential campaign from jail. Eugene Debs did it in 1920 and got more than 900,000 votes. That’s more than twice as many votes as the Green Party got in 2020, although the Greens were only on the ballot in 37 states.

I’d give anything to see the GOP hold its 2024 nominating convention outside the federal lockup in Butner where Madoff spent his last couple of years, or maybe Trump will get nominated in the town park in Otisville, NY which is where Michael Cohen mopped floors and washed dishes for three years.

Incidentally, Cohen is right now having a grand old time testifying before the New York Grand…