Back To The Blog: It's The Donald

Issue dated October 12, 2015


I've been away from the blog for a few weeks and I'm happy to say that after a couple of days in the hospital, a couple of weeks at a skilled nursing facility and a few days at home moving around with a cane, I'm the proud owner/user of a new left hip. Has anything been happening while I was away from the blog? Yes, oh yes.

I've been figuring we'd get a People cover featuring The Donald and here it is. According to the teaser article at people.com, wife Melania and son Barron are already planning their move to the White House, with Melania reassuring Barron that although he'll miss his friends, his father will be able to "help children like him" and it's all good. (I have to ask: how much help do the children of billionaires really need?)

There's a Duggar story too, ick, ick, ICK!! The fact that some presumably rational advertisers think there's an approving market for more television shows about this wretched family makes me want to scream, scream, SCREAM!! Please, make it stop.

There's also news in the political world, specifically, two GOP presidential candidates, Rick Perry and wow, Scott Walker, have officially dropped out. For months pundit after pundit has had Walker in their top 3, but apparently he just wasn't ready for prime time and couldn't perform at the national/presidential level. I'm updating my lists and in honor of The Donald, I'm going to call the new list of withdrawn candidates the "You're Fired!" list. Here goes:

Declared (and still in the race) GOP Candidates, in order of their official announcement

1. Ted Cruz (March 23) 
2. Rand Paul (April 7)
3. Marco Rubio (April 14)
4. Dr. Ben Carson (May 3) 
5. Carly Fiorina (May 4) 
6. Mike Huckabee (May 5) 
7. Rick Santorum (May 27)
8. George Pataki (May 28)
9. Lindsey Graham (June 1) 
10. Jeb Bush (June 15)
11. Donald Trump (June 16) 
12. Bobby Jindal (June 24) 
13. Chris Christie (June 30)
14. John Kasich (July 21) 
15. Jim Gilmore (July 30) 

Officially Not Running
Rob Portman (Dec 2)
Paul Ryan (Jan 12)
Mitt Romney (Jan 30)
Rick Snyder (May 7)
John Bolton (May 14) 

Mike Pence (May 20) 

Bob Ehrlich (August 4)

You're Fired!: Candidates Who Have Dropped Out

Rick Perry (June 4 - Sept. 11)
Scott Walker (July 13 - Sept. 21)

Days until Election Day: 404