But then again, of the field they had this time last year, who could they have chosen ? None of the above was the answer then, it's still true.

And it's certainly true in the UK that at some point a party of government becomes tired and incapable of renewal. Largely because all of the positions of sufficient power to make change are stuffed with the people who are actually "the problem". It happened with the tories in the 90s, and it's happening with NuLab now. Seems like the republicans are facing this same crisis. The whole party nationally seems to have become too rotten to regenerate, it needs to be burnt down before re-growth can flourish.

keep to the Fen Causeway