Surely you jest. The clowns are out in abundance.
The GOP-e floated the money to get all those vanity candidates in the race, specifically to keep the one anti-Romney candidate out of the race. Romney could hardly get than 25% of any particular state primary, and needed all those other candidates to split the anti-Romney voters.
The GOP-e will try the same this election.
I think you may have missed my point. The 2012 race was a joke, because there were no valid conservative candidates. This race will be very different. Yes, the GOPe will try to do the same. But they won’t have the easy targets that they had before.