The Troubled GOP

This is my first diary in a long time, mostly because I don't feel I can contribute much by way of analysis or anything. But this diary isnt really about something substantive. Its about a favorite pass-time of mine: a logic puzzle. The particular type of logic puzzle I m speaking of is essentially a mini detective story, where you have to use clues to match up all the characters to their unique traits.
I got the idea to do this mostly because it allows me to exercise two favorite parts of my brain: the silly part and the logical part and its all in good fun. Now I m actually copying them from a magazine but I tweak them enough to make them my own; for instance, in this first entry I copied one that was about horses, unicorns eating flowers and turned it into GOP pols, scandals, and campaign issues. So it would be a stretch to say I'm violating fair use or whatever.
To the puzzle