According to The New Republic, there are indications that Rep. Paul Ryan may be planning to squeeze into the circus parade with hopes of landing the GOP nomination. Ryan's budget proposals have already become the official Republican policy doctrine, and as TNR points out that should make him the official leader of the party. If Ryan and Bachmann both join the quest for the White House, there will be two current members of the House of Representatives seeking the office.
I've already reached the conclusion that gerrymandered House districts enable a lot of freaks, rubes and dipshits to serve as U.S. Representatives. The number of votes required to win a House seat just isn't that great and unfortunately, House members like Bachmann delude themselves into believing their winning majority in the home district is equivalent to majority support in the nation as a whole.
Anyway, I can't recall the last time a House member was a viable presidential candidate. Recent history indicates it's hard enough for a senator to win the presidency, and like governors, senators have at least won statewide elections. Off the top of my head, it seems like Gerald Ford was the last House member to become president, and he only made it through a sequence of circumstances unlikely to occur again anytime soon. Senator Obama beat Senator McCain, but might not have beaten former governor Romney.
Eventually a Republican will emerge from the party clusterfuck, and conservatives will congregate around him (or her, as the case may be). The best thing is that whoever moves to the front of the line will push the other dozen or so assholes to the back of the line.
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