GOP, Time to Dump Trump, You Cowards - By Joy-Ann Reid

[DonViejo]

The Daily Beast is running two headlines for this story. The first, presumably the click-bait headline, is above; the second, over the actual article, is below.


All Right, GOP, It’s Time to Dump Donald Trump

When is enough enough? Right now. Republicans. Obama is right. History will remember what you did—or did not—do.

To listen to Republican after Republican, from Speaker Paul Ryan to Senator John McCain, issue doleful statements decrying Donald Trump’s attack on the gold star parents of the late Captain Humayun Khan is to hear the forewarning bell toll of infamy. Surely, history will remember who stood, to the end, with Donald Trump in his bizarre and divisive quest for the presidency. History will record their names.

There’s Florida’s junior senator, Marco Rubio, who issued a tepid rebuke, days into Trump’s attacks on the Khans, calling it an “unfortunate feud” on the same day he told his supporters, “We have to make sure that Donald wins this election.” Rubio once called Trump a “dangerous con man.” But today, both his reelection in Florida and his prospects for running for president again in 2020 are tied to Trump’s fortunes in his state. And so Rubio demurs.

And whither McCain, whose belated criticism of Trump’s attack on the Khans was dutifully described as “blistering” by the D.C. press corps, but who refused to foreswear his support for “the Republican nominee.” McCain’s own war heroism was belittled by the five-time Vietnam draft avoider, who has vowed to bring torture back as U.S. armed forces policy. But no matter. McCain’s reelection in increasingly competitive Arizona is lashed to Trump’s fortunes. No matter that the state is in play precisely because of Trump’s offensive attacks on an American judge of Mexican descent and his vow to string a Berlin wall across our southern border. McCain, the onetime “maverick,” will not walk away.

House Speaker Paul Ryan remains as vague and listless as ever, as does Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, even after Mr. Khan plaintively beseeched both men, by name, to repudiate Trump and his un-American, unconstitutional vow to ban families like the Khans from entering the United States.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/03/all-right-gop-it-s-time-to-dump-donald-trump.html

[nolabear]

1. Boy, when they're back in session it's going to get interesting.

When you back away from the sheer horror of it, it's astounding what has happened to the GOP in the past eight years. They went absolutist oppositional on Obama, made that their entire goal, then found to their horror they had to do it for eight, and not four years. They must have known in some way that doing things like threatening a government shutdown, blocking every piece of legislation Obama and the Dems put forth, blocking the Supreme Court Justice nominee, etc. would not only look bad but stop their own sense of being an effective part of the system, but I suspect they pinned their hopes on a good candidate who would now become the figurehead for all those who believed it was really Obama's fault that things haven't moved as fast as they could have.

Then along came The Donald...

[longship]

2. How do you dump a presidential nominee?

Especially one from the only two major US political parties?

The GOP had 17 fucking candidates and this is who they selected! How can one reconcile those facts?

GOP clusterfuck! We're off script.

[Pisces]

3. Noo!!! Don't dump him. Lose big and revamp your party. You bought in to him,

Now you own him. Too bad you made the wrong choice. The Bush's, Romneys, and Ted Cruz are looking pretty smart right now.