A party run by a stupid, narcissistic, violent clown who fantasizes about his rival's assassination

[bigtree]

The Daily Edge ?@TheDailyEdge 12h12 hours ago

#TheGOPHasBecome a party run by a stupid, narcissistic, violent clown who fantasizes about his rival's assassination




bennydiego✯ ?@bennydiego 11h11 hours ago
#TheGOPHasBecome the party of John Wilkes Booth. #PatheticCowards

[kentuck]

1. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

You cannot force understanding on someone that wishes to remain ignorant.

[malthaussen]

2. I don't think Mr Trump "runs" the GOP.

Not that that means that those who do aren't stupid, narcissistic, and violent.

-- Mal

[bigtree]

3. He's the defacto leader of his party

...supported by the top leadership in the Senate and the House, as well as the party chairman and republican committee.

There's no distancing republicans from their choice of this man to lead their party.

[malthaussen]

6. Presidents and Presidential candidates are not the "leaders" of their party...

... this is not a Parliamentary democracy. Sometimes the positions might coincide, but I think one of the problems the GOP is facing this campaign season is that there is no "leader" in any reasonable sense of the word. Do you really think Donald Trump is making any policy for the GOP? The chosen candidate need not be the leader, and in Mr Trump's case, I think he is more the reflection of the GOP Id (as somebody-or-other had it) than anything else. This does not "distance" them from their choice, just means that their choice doesn't tell them what to do.

-- Mal

[heaven05]

8. defacto is the operative word here

and obvious to those who have watched the Republican Parrty slide into the political slime pit and end up the New Nazi Party of Amerikkka. Quite obvious, really.

[bigtree]

11. you must be watching a different election than me

...the republican party is kowtowing to Trump in every conceivable and meaningful way they can manage.

They have no independent agenda, outside of an almost anarchistic aim to dismantle our democracy and reconstruct the Bush-era pipeline from the treasury to their wallets; each, of course, with their own self-interest attached to whatever they do in office.

They've been working to hijack government away from the people and make it an established corporate entity. This isn't some exercise in democracy or democratic governance for republicans. It's a flim-flam operation.

Trump is directing this latest assault, care of our presidential election, and the republican party is accommodating him at every turn - defending and promoting him.

Good luck bundling this bunko game into something resembling established democratic process or protocol. Those constitutional considerations were jettisoned and abandoned by the republican party when junior Bush assumed office behind his daddy's Supreme Court.

[mountain grammy]

12. Well said!

[Fast Walker 52]

4. of course he does-- he's the face of the party

and will be the leader of them if he wins

[malthaussen]

7. No, he'll be the Leader of the Free World if he wins...

... and may Whoever have mercy on the Free World.

-- Mal

[moman]

5. Just As Bad As Trump

All these Republicans who are supporting Trumps with varying degrees of "reluctance" or ,while disassociating themselves at various times from his wilder statements ,get a free ride from the media.

They're just as bad.

Indeed, to use an old term from the fifties(applied to leftist non Communists by the McCarthy supporting Right),Paul Ryan,John McCain ,Marco Rubio and all the rest are "Fellow Travelers" of the worst hate and bigotry of modern times.

[napkinz]

9. K&R

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. :(

[SCVDem]

14. Bozo

You've changed!

[Stuart G]

13. K AND R

[Bobcat]

15. Cartoonists

The ones doing REAL JOURNALISM these days.....

[smirkymonkey]

16. K&R

[napkinz]

17. kick