tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post3484947852783303020..comments2024-03-17T12:51:46.412-07:00Comments on Cutting Through The Crap: Don't Worry, We Got ThisSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-85129094759476704892016-06-08T13:32:41.426-07:002016-06-08T13:32:41.426-07:00"Are there enough Republicans with the self-r..."Are there enough Republicans with the self-respect and dignity to draw the line?"<br /><br />Republicans with self-respect, AND dignity? (General Laughter)... Good one Sid! What, you're serious? (Riotous, Gasping, Snorting BWAAAHAHAHA Laughter!)<br /><br />Self-respect and dignity went out with Ike and "The party of Lincoln", transmogrified to the likes of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush.<br /><br /> I recall, my in- laws (Lyndon La Rouche republicans) anxiously reassuring us, when Bush was nominated,” Cheney will be there to watch him".<br /><br />Even they were afraid of Bush without Cheney to watch him.<br /><br />So it doesn't look much as though "Republicans with self-respect, (with or without) dignity" will be trying to "control" Mr. Drumph.<br /><br />…Except for Lindsey Graham apparently: Wonkette delightfully put it this way: “Lindsey Graham is Two Jameson Shots Away From Shrieking, ‘I’m With Her, Y’all!” (Note to Wonkette: the plural in southernspeak is “All Y’all”). But I digress!<br /><br />They just don't want him to give the game away, until he is elected. Because if you can say He's a con man, a bigot, a sexist, a racist, a fascistic liar, but I'm still going to support him, then you must be all of the above yourself, just waiting for the opportunity, to be those things, openly: like roaches finally, defiantly ‘standing their ground’ in the kitchen when the lights go on. <br /><br />EugeneInSanDiegoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-8089365823748067492016-06-07T14:48:46.120-07:002016-06-07T14:48:46.120-07:00Yeah, it's too early to get excited. Republica...Yeah, it's too early to get excited. Republican leaders and Trump are playing a game of chicken with the country at stake. The leaders are trying to convince themselves that Trump will eventually give in, but that sure as hell ain't going to happen. That ADD narcissist had better lose!Dr Strangelovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603758423399991937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-73911592840177367812016-06-07T14:35:56.890-07:002016-06-07T14:35:56.890-07:00Come to think of it McCarthy started out pretty st...Come to think of it McCarthy started out pretty strong but eventually the dogma got old and he didn't have many friends.<br /> Trump is charting a pretty tough course, not unlike Ted Cruz, he's going to need a lot more friends than he thinks he does.danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120881361934507591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-52769747299498602552016-06-07T14:21:37.797-07:002016-06-07T14:21:37.797-07:00I wondered when the emperor's missing clothes ...I wondered when the emperor's missing clothes would be noted. Trump is far from invincible and it certainly helps when the media asks relevant questions.<br /> I remain guarded, but Trump might just take the Republican plane all the way to the crash site it has been headed toward for so longdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120881361934507591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-53447938733530366562016-06-07T14:17:36.776-07:002016-06-07T14:17:36.776-07:00I wouldn't quite describe myself as optimistic...I wouldn't quite describe myself as optimistic, Mike. Just noting a change in tone in the last week or so, as the stuff about Trump U has been coming out, along with his attacks on the particular judge, and any judge, by implication, not a white guy who loves him. <br /><br />As I've been writing for years, today's R party is anything but conservative or rational. I've wondered many times, many ways, what it would take for voters to wake up to the obvious; so far, the answer seems to be "nothing." But I sense a certain level of buyers' remorse among some R "leaders." It's not that I'm optimistic. Not yet, anyway. Just thinking there's a chance, over the next six months, as Trump inevitably reveals himself to be the scumbag he is, that it'll get harder for some people to deny it. Maybe hard enough that they'll not vote for him, out of what's left, on that side, of self-respect.<br /><br />It's pretty amazing, isn't it Doc, that the party is resorting to rationalizing their purported leader by saying they'll protect us from him. They deserve the humiliation; it's the direct result of their cynical approach to voters ever since Ronald Reagan. If it becomes certain (one can hope) that he's doomed to lose and to bring enough with him to return the Senate to Ds (can we hope for the House, too?), I'll be able to sit back and enjoy it. Not there yet. Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-53638290650359807442016-06-07T14:04:18.844-07:002016-06-07T14:04:18.844-07:00Their reassurance that they can control a Presiden...Their reassurance that they can control a President Trump, when they cannot control a Candidate Trump, is an admission that the front lines are breaking, rifles are being dropped, and the troops are running like hell back to the imagined safety of the fort.<br /><br />Let's hope that the action by the Iowa state senator is enough to stiffen some of those limp Republican backbones or cause others to join him.Dr Strangelovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14603758423399991937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4988839706387198339.post-50979309033992428432016-06-07T12:59:40.710-07:002016-06-07T12:59:40.710-07:00I wish I could share your optimism, but I think th...I wish I could share your optimism, but I think this is going to end badly. To start with, a lot of seemingly reasonable people are voting for Trump as a sign of protest or something. I know someone who surprised me by saying she's voting for Trump. I said "what about the wall? The comments on the judge? Prohibiting Muslims from entering?" Her response was "Oh, he doesn't really mean that. And even if he did, he couldn't do it." In other words these people are inventing a world in which you can run for office and in a paean to reader-response theory the words mean what the listener wants them to mean. And the world will work they way they want, intent be damned. <br /><br />Mike TAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com