Buckle up your seatbelts, GOP …

[NanceGreggs]

… you’re in for a bumpy night. Actually, you’re in for lot of bumpy nights between now and November.

Since the election of Donald Trump as your party’s nominee, it has been more than amusing to watch it slowly dawn on you that your candidate is what everyone else knew him to be all along: a crude, loud-mouthed liar with zero credibility and even less sense. The man is stupid beyond measure, and has yet to verbalize a coherent thought. His knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs is not lacking; it is completely non-existent. His ignorance – and his penchant for displaying it – literally knows no bounds.

A lot of you seem to be wondering how this abusive idiot ever wound up as your nominee in the first instance. Well, someone voted for him – in fact, a lot of someones did – and you’re acting like you never saw it coming.

I guess it didn’t occur to you that after your party’s decades-long stirring the pot of racism, disdain for the poor, hatred towards immigrants, etc., the people who followed your lead would see someone like Sir Rants-a-Lot as the brave knight who had the balls to state outright what your party has only whispered, or couched in nudge-nudge, wink-wink terms that could later be denied.

Every time Trump insults another group of people – Muslims, women, minorities, the disabled – and his crowds cheer, the country sees what the Republican party has become. Every time a Trump supporter yells “burn all the niggers” or “kill all the Muslims”, the American people are left in no doubt as to what the GOP stands for. Every time a Republican spokesperson attempts to excuse or rationalize Trump’s outlandish remarks, the voters are reminded that your party’s candidate-of-choice represents everything you have been promoting for years, but tried to keep hidden from view.

Things are bad enough for you, my friends across the aisle. But they’re about to become a lot worse. As dumb as he is, Trump has managed to figure out one thing: he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this election. What that means is that all the babysitting, all the admonitions to stay on message and tone down the rhetoric, all the strategy meetings meant to drive home the idea of not doing any further damage than has already been done, are all for naught.

Your Darlin’ Donald has absolutely no reason to heed your warnings, nor take your advice. He has no political career to salvage, no political ambitions to be furthered, and no motivation to be anything more than what he’s always been: an ignorant bigot with a big mouth. He wanted the ultimate spotlight of being the presidential candidate of a major party, and you gave it to him. And now he is basking in that light and, in the doing, is exposing the hypocrisy, the bigotry, the greed, and the lack of conscience that the GOP has tried to keep in the dark for decades.

So buckle-up, Republicans. Strap your asses into your seats, and try to hold on to what's left of your feigned principles. Your already bumpy ride is about to become the worst case of political butt-hurt in American history.