The reason the GOP field seems so unstable

[Reaganfan]

The problem for the GOP is that success came during the last 20 years because of Richard Nixon's Government. Richard Nixon had CIA Director George Bush, and Nixon led to Ford who had Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. George Bush became Vice President which led to his Presidency from 1989 to 1993, which included again names like Cheney and had Colin Powell, General of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Then, after eight years of Clinton/Gore, we had the Texas Governor who was the son of George Bush, whose Vice President was Ford's Chief of Staff and Bush 41's Secretary of Defense, then you had his Secretary of Defense the same guy who was Ford's Secretary of Defense, then you had the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under his father become Secretary of State. Not to mention James Baker, who served under Reagan and Bush 41 helped Bush 43 with the recount in Florida in 2000.

It's all connected, you can trace President George W. Bush in 2009 back to Ronald Reagan selecting George Bush as VP in 1980, easily and quite frankly, you could go back to President Nixon...which essentially leads to Eisenhower who was the first Republican President since Herbert Hoover.

That's probably why it seems so odd to have this primary campaign so open with endless possibilities.