Posted on 02/24/2016 4:21:11 PM PST by mandaladon
THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. At this stage, even an extraordinary effort might fall short. But history will not look kindly on GOP leaders who fail to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer.
A few days ago we criticized Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for his assertion that a Trump victory in November would silence the doubters. “Winning is the antidote to a lot of things,†Mr. Priebus had said. We argued that winning would not erase the bigotry and ugliness of Mr. Trump’s campaign, nor remove the dangers of a Trump presidency. On Wednesday, the GOP chairman, perhaps wanting to show that he can match Mr. Trump in eloquence, responded: “That is the stupidest editorial that I have ever seen.â€
So it falls to other leaders to decide if their party will stand for anything other than winning. A political party, after all, isn’t meant to be merely a collection of consultants, lobbyists and functionaries angling for jobs. It is supposed to have principles: in the Republican case, at least as we have always understood it, to include a commitment to efficient government, free markets and open debate. Now it is faced with a front-runner who, in the interval between the two Priebus comments cited above, said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face.†This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists.
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Hold firm - be tough - stand tall! We can get the USA back again!
That is an awesome pic!
The Washington Post are racists.
Credit due to The Peoples Cube, an awesome website.
Yeah, they really have your best interests at heart.
We must have RINOs!!!!
We must have more Mehhiccans!!!
More cheap labor!!! To HELL with you damn ‘MUrricans!
GOP leaders? LOL!
Their outrage should provoke our support....
To GOP leaders:
We the people are taking charge again. We have a leader get out of our way or get run over!
Mitt Romney must have had a hand in writing this editorial. What a taudrey, sleazy do anything approach to fighting the base rather than the Democrat Socialists.
This screed shows their desperation.
They KNOW that Trump will clean Hillary’s clock, and they just cannot imagine someone taking apart Obama’s work, and then beginning to take apart the liberal welfare state...not now, when Obama has Justice #5 JUST within reach.
The closer you are to the target, the more flak you get. This is a 1,000 plane raid, and the bomb-bay doors have just opened!
The GOP has leaders..who knew LOL..Are these the same GOP leaders who kiss Obama’s a@@ and give him everything that he wants
They also cannot vote!
What a concept!
The Washington Compost spreading it on extra thick now.
These idiots at the Washington Post need to get a life.
How many people did Bill Clinton deport? It was well over 10 million.
They’re trying to shame us into letting them win. CLINTON himself moved 12mm people. Dont. Let. Them. Win!
Will the establishment back Cruz, then, and ask Rube to quit?
Didn’t think so.
STFU.
It might be another thing if every one of their citations of propriety - Bush, Ryan, et al - weren't already avatars of Establishment politics. The Beast has been bitten, and it's howling.
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