Rhetorical Question # MDCXXXIV:

[PCIntern]

How did almost none of the horror stories and scandals come out while Trump was running in the Rethug Primaries? Was the plan to allow him to immolate all the challengers and then beat him to political-death with this ongoing outpouring of activities which peg him and his companies and his executives as the miscreants which they are so that Hillary could win?

If I were writing a political thriller I would incorporate this storyline without question.

How did Jeb raise $100,000,000 and allow this to happen to him and thusly to America. I just don't get it...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. None of the others thought Trump could win

so they didn't do the sort of oppo research they should have done.

[randome]

6. Neither Reince Priebus nor any of the other higher ups did any vetting, either.

Trump essentially walked into an empty room while everyone else was wondering how best to enter the room.

His ascendancy should come as no surprise since no one has been in charge of the GOP for some time now. We knew this since Sarah Palin was allowed to soil the GOP name even further than it was already.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[spanone]

2. trump was fueled by the media to the tune of $2 billion dollars of free airtime

hard to beat that with a measly $100 mil

[jaysunb]

3. +1 n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Because it takes a Democratic woman to do the job that 16 Republicans failed to do. . . . nt

[duncang]

5. He was supported by the main stream repub news which was

Fake emails, infowarts, citizens united, bannon. They depended on that to hit on democrats so much it is the repub part. They have molded the repub thinking and directions so long that became the main stream for them. They didn't understand it could and would turn on them.

[malaise]

7. Excellent question

They were focused on all the wrong non-stories like Benghazi and emails

[dawg]

8. Because misogyny and racism play well in a Republican primary.

If the other candidates had attacked Trump along these lines, they would've only helped him with Republican primary voters.

And if any lurking Republicans read this, well, I'm sorry, but it's the truth. (Besides, I heard you like men who tell it like it is!)