At 2016 Iowa summit, some fresh GOP faces — finally

For all the talk of a deep Republican bench for 2016, a lot of the faces in the early game are the same.

Mitt Romney? Really? He ran and lost in 2012 — badly. Rick Santorum? Mike Huckabee? Rick Perry? They all ran and lost to the guy who won the nomination — and then lost — badly. Sarah Palin? She lost so badly in 2008 she didn’t even make an effort in 2012. The list of has-beens goes on and on.