Fear and loathing over Trump among GOP in Congress

[jpak]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fear-and-loathing-over-trump-among-gop-in-congress/2016/02/27/c6ed9b88-dd2b-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html

WASHINGTON — Fear and loathing is striking congressional Republicans faced with the distinct possibility of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.

“My party has gone batshit crazy,” says South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who called Trump a “nut job” and maintains that the billionaire businessman would inflict as much damage to the GOP as the iceberg did to the Titanic.

Republicans share a palpable fear that Trump would alienate Hispanics, minorities, independents and women, driving them to vote Democratic in November and costing the GOP the presidency, its Senate majority and suddenly competitive House seats. With the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for decades also is at stake.

GOP incumbents clearly understand that the only option is to run a flawless campaign.

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[Jitter65]

1. Yeah, they have to be feeling depressed. They work their asses off obstructing Obama for their base

and the ingrates go for someone who really isn't a GOPer. Almost like the Dems with Bernie.

Unappreciative ingrates.

[tanyev]

2. The logical consequences of the actions they've taken for several decades.

I don't know what they're whining about.

[JHB]

3. Why goodness gracious, Lindsay...

...your party has been bat shit crazy for years. Your fellow conservatives have spent decades turning it into an incubator for guanopaths because they rode their votes to power. Your own presidential bid was designed to feed them the way a momma bird feeds her chicks: by regurgitating pre-digested worms in their mouths.

Your party has been on this path for your entire adult life. You've held the reins, rode shotgun, fixed the occasional broken wheel, all to keep this wagon train steadily moving. You've never questioned "to where" before, why start now?

[Botany]

4. Rush, Fox, Beck, "you lie!", Rove, Tea party ass hats, and so on and now they are surprised that ...

..... they have made a monster. And Lindsey Graham helped too w/his blow job witch hunt (white water)
and his Benghazi crap.