Cyanide as opposed to arsenic
Thankfully, Rethugliklans are damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. They built this monster and, as Martha Stewart would say, “It’s a good thing.”
So, what do you call it when they stick with him? A “yuge” win for Secretary Clinton? I’m good with that…
She’s dead-on. Truthfully, the best thing for them is for the Republican establishment to just not vote for President on November 8th. That way, the loss is big and total, destroying the credibility of the Trumpeteers, plus they still get some of their down-ballot races elected. Johnson doesn’t get 5%, which makes their job of getting elected in 2018 much easier.
A narrow loss will enable a stab-in-the-back myth. One will crop up anyways after the Republicans effectively endorsed Clinton on Friday, but a narrow loss will give it traction. The Republicans need the alt-Reich crowd to be discredited without drawing its fire. And, considering how many guns that crowd has, “drawing its fire” could be literal.
When they started backing away from Trump on Friday, they were playing with fire, a hotter and more destructive fire than having Trump head the ticket in the first place. And in the now increasingly unlikely event of a Trump win, they just put themselves in the line of fire. And again, considering the crowd about which we’re talking, that might be literal.
It was political suicide for them to nominate Trump, but yeah, that happened.
Is it really possible to commit political suicide twice? Leave it to the Republicans to find a way.
So it would be worse to replace what you already have?
HOW?? How could it be worse?
This should be the death of the republican party. Yes on the surface it seems like Trump has stepped further into the abyss than anyone, but as Krugman points out today, it’s really where the republican party has been for years.
It was political suicide for the GOP to choose Donald Trump as their candidate in the first place. The man is an emotional mess and an intellectual nullity.