Perhaps the biggest weakness of the current Republican party is the lack of decent spokesmen. This week has been an opportunity for some to speak up and they should. You would have considered Reagan's run in 1976 as meaningless.
Making the voters aware of what is going on is critical, especially when the so-called 'leaders' of the Republicans try to hide so much. The government shutdown boogieman is one of the biggest strawmen erected in recent years. It's been nothing but a diversion to divert attention from the GOPe's working with Obama to amnesty illegal aliens, and to fully fund Obamacare.
The few conservatives definitely need to do things to draw attention to those realities.;
No, running for preisdent and losing is not meaningless, because doing so allows voters to get to know a candidate.
Clearly sometimes you have to run more than once before you catch fire.
If these three men, whom are all good men, want to start leading, then start leading.
Doing so should not be hard at all considering that the GOP has zero leadership.
I do not considering having meaningless votes leading, I consider it having meaningless votes.
Want to do something effective? Then get with the members, convince them you should be leader, are going to be leader, and then get them to elect you leader.
No ones need Mitch McConnell and John Boner besides Obama.
If this party cannot generate leadership outside of these two traitorous rats, then it is most certainly going to die and should die.