Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place...

[kentuck]

President Obama presented the challenge quite clearly yesterday. How can Republicans be against all the dangerous and crazy comments by their candidate and still support him?

That is the issue. I'm sure there were good Germans that disagreed with a lot of the things the Fuehrer said but still supported him as their leader? That turned out real well, didn't it?

Republicans simply cannot make the leap. They cannot stand on principle and do the right thing because it may cost them their election. If they refuse to endorse Trump, then Trump's supporters, and there are a lot of them in the Republican Party, may take it out on those Republican Congressmen and Senators that refuse to endorse their candidate.

That is the hard rock they are stuck between. If they continue to criticize Trump's crazy comments but still refuse to withdraw their endorsement, then Trump may be a huge drag on the entire Party in November and many of them could lose their seats anyway.

What to do? What to do? Most of them have chosen to do nothing. They don't want to get too close to their candidate but they can't afford to divorce themselves from the votes of all the Trump supporters. They are cowards.

They are hoping that all the Trump supporters will vote for them in November, if they don't criticize him too harshly. They are putting a sick-minded person and their own desire for political power over the best interests of our nation. They have no principles. They are as much a threat to our nation as Donald Trump. They betray everything our nation has ever stood for.

[MadCrow]

1. No win situation.

If the Republican Party repudiates Trump, then they are agreeing with President Obama, (perish the thought!) and Trumps's followers will rebel; if they don't they threaten the very existence of our democracy. Hobson's choice.

[kentuck]

2. Yep!

They have to wonder how they got into this predicament? I would say that the last straw was when they surrendered whatever principles they had left to the Tea Party crazies in 2010? They won the House and Senate but they lost their soul.

[auntpurl]

3. They don't give a shit about the existence of our democracy.

They want those Supreme Court appointments and they are willing to sell their souls to get them.

[meow2u3]

5. It's especially true of hard-core Trumpanzees

They couldn't care less if Russia invaded and occupied the United States as long as the Toxic Tangerine were in charge.

[sofa king]

4. I think it's far worse than that.

While I am well aware of President Obama's two-step, which virtually guarantees that the dumber set of Republicans will double-down on Trump, it's important to remember that the President uncharacteristically offered a dire warning to them, which is something one does not do in politics.

It is something you do in national security.

The pieces are already falling into place so fast it is nearly impossible for me to keep up, but the upshot is all around us, now: Donald Trump's people did collaborate with the Russians, they did alter the Republican platform at Russian behest, they did ask for and receive Russian assistance in the form of espionage, and that is punishable by sentences up to life in prison.

Now the full might of federal law enforcement is selectively dripping disclosures that are designed to force Trump into a simple choice between leaving the race forever (there is no statute of limitations on espionage), or fighting it out and losing absolutely everything. He'll take the deal.

Trump is already lashing out like he knows the score--or was; he has fallen completely silent today. His last Tweet was a failed attempt to divert attention toward Iran, information which may well have been fed to him by his Russian case officers.

He's done, and no Republican will be able to say the President didn't warn them. All they had to do was be good Americans instead of villainous Republicans, and they could have made their own hay from it. But we all know they can't do that, either.

[sarcasmo]

6. Had lunch with 2 no Trump voters who will be voting Johnson.

The right is in full blown chaos.

[GoCubsGo]

7. It coudn't happen to a better bunch of assholes.