It was inevitable. Mixing a pop-icon like Donald Trump with a primary process that started with so many contestants had to produce a kind of Republican Party “Amazing Race.”
To the great embarrassment of the GOPe, the entry of Donald Trump has re-cast their primary process from an orderly procession to an “honorable defeat” to a larger version of The Amazing Race.
Like the Republican primaries (TRP), The Amazing Race (TAR) begins with a large number of entries. Like the Republican primaries, TAR contestants start out as friends. They know somebody will be sent home early but the strong teams know who their real competition is and they know they are not going home yet.
Like The Amazing Race, TRP has its Rick Perrys and Bobby Jindals who are sent away before any real alliances are made. In the ensuing weeks, as becomes necessary, TAR sees alliances between teams. For example, a strong team will select a weak team for the purpose of helping rather than attacking each other. That way, a lone team that might have had a chance against the others had they remained alone, can be forced out. Alliances create strength and staying power.
TRP have gone this way to some extent. Some of the plausible candidates like Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina were content to watch Trump beat the brains out of Jeb Bush. They knew that when he is finished and Bush is eliminated he will come after one of them, but like TAR they’ll take it because it keeps them in the race.
Unlike TAR, the Republican Primaries are subject to outside interference, which in this case will merely hold off the inevitable...
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