And Trump will continue to do well in the polls after the McCain slur. The Far Right base of the GOP doesn’t like any of the party’s Establishment. They are not anarchist enough for their tastes.
A lot of Republicans hate McCain for losing to a black and blame him for not going racist against Obama and Muslims. It’s really not unusual for this practice to be used regularly in the South and parts of the North that never accepted integration. They ask what was the big deal. Why did McCain hold back on the black boy.
A lot of others blame McCain for being so stupid as to put Palin on the ticket.
There is a lot of frustration and anger among the party which is now being dumped on a convenient target whom they feel represents the former Republican Party that didn’t use to be so Far Right.
When Atwood started courting the Dixiecrats and Rove elevated them to the heirs of the GOP, it was almost inevitable that this would happen.
What I find, and all other decent Americans find so offensive, is that the Far Right and a rich draft dodging blowhard would latch onto McCain’s imprisonment as a prisoner of war as the offense that McCain must be cruxified upon. It’s like they are trivalizing the service and sacrifice of all our troops. I guess it was to be expected when they went after Obama last year for trading prisoners of war last year like it was so unusual…and somehow dishonorable.
How does a political party become so unhinged as to think they can alienate the very people they are asking to vote for them in such a bizarre manner? This is not logical or sane. It’s just plain disgusting and suggests that we are in for a lot more offensive things coming from the GOP in the coming months.
How much lower can they go? How can they think this is appealing to civilized human beings?
No, the worst of it is that a large minority or a tiny majority of those very people will go vote for them because the media sells the idea that ‘everybody’s just as crazy’ and ‘Rev. Benghazi Wright’ and ‘the Democrats are going to force your sons to be gay and your daughters to have abortions at the muzzle of your very own gun which they confiscated from you’. Which gives them another 2 or 4 years to decry the indecency of American discourse. And the nutjobs to keep making those incremental social changes that ruins the whole place.
Oh FFS, Trump is now in Herman Cain territory…and we all know how well that went.
The hysteria and flat out defense by those in the media, that are now doing everything they can to come to the aid of McGrumpy, their favorite Sunday morning talk show guest, is astonishing. As far as I’m concerned, this is just more shits and giggles for the rest of us.
There also seems to be a conflation that any criticism of McGrumpy is an attack on all veterans. That’s more overblown bullshit by the media too.
Again…treatment of John Kerry and Max Cleland and GWB himself against McWar didn’t have anyone in the media coming to the defense of McCain or those others like they are now. So fuck this whole thing. I hope tRUMP rises to the top of the shitpile and stays there for a very long time.
Massive? considering how the game is played - yes at this point it would be HUGE - and it will suck the air out of the room for some of the lesser candidates - the will not be able to get attention & thus will not get traction.
You know, if Trump wins the election, I wonder if he’ll even bother moving to the White House. He just might choose to govern out of Trump Towers. I really wouldn’t put it past him.
That’s the Great Justamarini, folks, showing up here and presenting the most bleedin’ obvious conventional wisdom as if he had something to say. Trump won’t be the nominee? The hell you say! Does he have some sort of weakness as a candidate? Tell us more!
Or look at it this way: If GOP voters are 30% of the electorate, then it’s only 7% of the voting population. Which is a lot when you consider they’re all racists.
“…the decline in support was statistically significant.”
Trump is a “loose cannon” in the words of Victor Hugo:
“The cannonade, hurled forward by the pitching, dashed into this knot of men, and crushed (four) Jeb, Scott, Ben, Ted at the first blow; then, flung back and shot out anew by the rolling, it cut in two a (fifth poor fellow) Rick… The enormous cannon was left alone. She was given up to herself. She was her own mistress, and mistress of the vessel. She could do what she willed with both.”
The GOP is figuring out their party is fucked if they nominate him and fucked if they don’t (when he runs as an Independent). Let’s all enjoy the ride!
The 2016 GOP convention is exactly a year away—July 18-21, 2016. That’s more than enough time for Trump’s support to implode, crater, and disappear several times over. If he’s still leading the GOP field a year from now, it will signal that the Republican Party is in its death throes.
