[DrMartinVonNostrand]

And what makes you think that if people run away they will run to one of the conservatives?

I think his coalition of support would shatter evenly across the field, and Simon and McClintock will keep each other from surpassing Cruz "Mexifornia" Bustamante.

[Maelstrom]

I think people who would vote for McClintock would stay home if he weren't in the race.

[GatekeeperBookman]

I do not think any who find him an idiot on the campaign will run to anyone. They may disperse back to the woods, from whence many nuts emerge. He attracks unlikely voters-like Peerow did. The whole thing is goofy. Some of the other candidates look sane-but this is the land of fruit & nuts.