Whether they officially endorse Hair Furor or not, we need to make sure the fact they will vote for him shows a severe lack of judgement.
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He definitely seems to go through cycles. I’m sensing he’s at the end of this cycle so we should see him move to his “presidential” mode for the next week or so. Expect him to deliver a “serious” speech from a teleprompter soon. We’ll be back to crazy later in June.
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To be fair, Romney seems to be genuinely horrified by Trump. And he is clearly a much more decent person than Trump, as bad as he is.
The entire Trump candidacy seems to be an exercise in proving that “it can always get worse”.
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walks like a duck… swims like a duck… quacks like a duck… (But Paul Ryan is pretty sure he’s not a duck!)
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But Drumpf’s racism is anything but sudden. The talk about “Mexican rapists” is what first hot him in the news, almost a year ago. It never stopped either, whether it’s Muslims or Chinese or whoever.
His candidacy might be a ploy (which I seriously doubt), but the GOP was ripe for the picking, and that was all their own work. Blatant racism sells better than the dogwhistle version among GOP voters. Who knew!
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The RNC concocted the winner-take-alls
The MSM helped with butterknife “questions” and $2 billion in free ads
The other GOP Primary candidates were too egotistical to drop out before too late
Made-to-order for a con-man.
slagathor upthread mentioned Narcissistic Personality Disorder. If that were not the case, Trump might have made it.
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What “unity”?… The GOP is as unified as a crew on a ship without sails, motor, oars and radar in an ocean as calm as pond while they all decide how to split the last sandwich.
Of the MANY things I see Donald Trump has done directly to the GOP is that he has threatened the comfortable income on the Republican establishment. The Senate and Congress now see that money’s gonna be snatched away in an eye-blink come the General Election, for a generation. The GOP will lose Senate, Congress, Presidency, number of members in the SCOTUS, local governments, judges on all levels will be replaced… now, had they made their job as they were elected to, the past 8 years, we’d be looking at another scenario, but now, they’ll have to bite the bullets they so love, or as they say in Mexico "a morderse un huevo" (they’ll have to bite a testicle) and stand it.
So… I ask again again WHAT “GOP UNITY”?
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Shatters Unity------- It just shines a light on the spineless dickheads who swallow.
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Josh points out that admitting that your nominee is a racist and still nominally supporting him is an untenable situation. How does it move forward? I think we are looking at something like 1992 where significant portions of the GOP coalition break with the party to vote 3rd party, sit at home or vote Democratic. In 1992, Bill Clinton picked up a significant number of voters who had previously supported Reagan and Bush and effectively created Blue America, while others supported Ross Perot and brought Bush’s share of the vote to under 40%. I think we will see something similar here. Hillary will win some states where Democrats don’t typically win because a 3rd party candidate will siphon votes from the GOP. In addition, I think Hillary will further strengthen the Democrats’ hold on blue leaning purple states (e.g., CO, VA, FL and OH) and turn some previously red/purpilish states blue. These states will become an enduring part of the Democratic coalition. As for these additional states, I think North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona are the top candidates. As for the states where she might win as a one-off: Utah, Montana and possibly South Carolina and Texas could be on the list.
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Golly, Ms. Fox, not everyone can be a hero like Michelle Fiore.
Fragile unity ((snicker))
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The spasms and convulsions of terminal end-stage Reaganism are much more gruesome to behold than I would have guessed.
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This fiasco is great for Democrats. Every candidate in a swing district or Senate race who says “Yeah, these comments are racists, but I support Trump anyone,” will face an ad highlighting the absurdity of their position.
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Trump looking after the GOP’s “fragile unity”
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This is like the Southern Strategy, or Rove’s anti-gay ballot initiatives - play to the bigots and idiots to pad the vote total so they can implement their vile economic scams (e.g. privatization of soc. sec.). Only difference is that this time the strategy is announced publicly and explicitly: “Trump is a monstrosity, but will sign our draconian bills, so if you vote for him, we’ll try to rein him in”.
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The danger is that voters will become in immune to the hypocrisy and accept this as the new normal. “Trump’s actions are reprehensible. I support the nominee.”
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TPM:
“If they were inconsistent with things we’ve seen up to this point in the election, I would tell you it might. But I think we’re all sort of used to remarks being made that we don’t expect," Politico reported Burr said.
Shorter Burr: We’ve come to expect and normalize racist rhetoric from Republican presidential candidates.
Exactly.
Democrats have to be enamoured and inspired. Hence Bernie being able to alienate millions of perfect-the-enemy-of-the-good people to the point of sitting out the General instead of voting for Hillary, whose voting record is 93% similar to his.
Republicans?
If Trump does what Cruz/Bush/Walker/Rubio would have done domestically and if he nominates someone the RNC approves of for SCOTUS, they are willing to chance demagogic fascism (which they know nothing about, believing-erroneously–that Trump is “small government”).
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And yet, people voted him the candidate.
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