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.
An opinion of yours that many disagree with. A vote that forces all senators to vote yes or no on funding Obama's illegal amnesty for illegal aliens would not be meaningless.
And it is defintely leading when the Republicans who are elected to lead are doing the opposite and practically colluding with Obama. These three are separating themselves from the herd, and from the herd mentality, and working to put senaors on the record concerning an issue the American people care about greatly.
Maybe you support McConnell and Boner.