Unless some unhinged NRA fanatic takes up Donald Trump’s hint that Hillary could be taken out before she’s sworn into office I’d say that the first “black” president will be succeeded by the first female president. That’s not how this post began 24 hours ago before the “live mike” recording of Donald Trump was released hurling ever more rats off a burning Republican ship.
Last night on PBS’s Washington Week I heard a reporter explain that Trump had just talked about a “kitty cat.” I momentarily puzzled over that unusual political terminology until she explained that Trump had used the “P” word. Ohhhhhh!
So, who is still left on Trump’s ship of state? For one Ralph Reed. This morning on NRP I heard Ralph stand by Trump explaining that he would still take his teenaged daughters to Trump rallies. After all, Trump is the only candidate that Christians can depend on to give America the Supreme Court we deserve.
A great many Trump voters feel the same way about Hillary Clinton as I feel about Donald Trump. Trumpians and Clintonians, are both aghast at the possibility that the other candidate could become the new President of the United States.
Establishment Republicans never regarded Donald Trump as a real threat. Unlike younger less political voters whose image of Trump was the glossy one he presented on his TV shows, old timers knew Trump for the braggadocious fool who was nearly brought to ruin until his fortunes were bailed out by banks and federal taxpayers to the tune of nearly a billion dollars in the mid nineties.
But Republican shills and pols were so intent on bolstering the wealth of the top 1 percent that they took for granted the blue collar voters who were losing their jobs in international trade pacts; going bankrupt when medical emergencies ruined them and being nickel and dimed by Republican championed title loans. What the GOP offered these voters instead was an end to abortion; unrestricted access to guns of mass destruction; a wall along the Mexican border; a multi-trillion dollar, never-ending war on terror and a no compromise Republican Congress with its nationally destructive political gridlock. Finaly this year it caught up with them and the “you’re fired” Donald Trump seemed to be a breath of fresh air. He also looked better than the Democratic alternative Hillary Clinton.
Trump supporters who followed Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have had thirty years to hear how awful Hillary is. Why she had her husband’s good friend ,Vince Foster, murdered. When Bill cheated on her it was as much Hillary’s fault for turning a blind eye because of her ambition. Of course, if Bill had been a republican politician who, had cheated on his wife he probably would have been given a pass just like the one so many Republican voter’s have been prepared to give Trump. The more The Bill Clinton borrowed conservative ideas like welfare reform the greater the threat he became to the GOP. Hillary has been a casualty of their war against Bill.
I find much to admire in Hillary’s thick skin, competence and doggedness. In a man those would be solid attributes. In a woman, not so much. Even before the latest Trump outrage Clinton garnered some suprising endorsements. One of the most noteworthy just emerged from the “vast right wing Conspiracy.” Michael Chertoff endorsed her for President. He was the Republican counsel who investigated the living daylights out of Whitewater. Chertoff told NPR how, after making her life hell, she worked with him amicably and ably as a US Senator. That’s a skill the thin skinned Trump will never master because he’s so busy hurling insults on his Twitter account.
Ralph Reed’s prodigious obsequiousness to a top dog has been echoed by other Republicans like Ted Cruz, who just endorsed Trump despite Trump’s ridiculing his wife and accusing his father of helping to assassinate John Kennedy. Rush Limbaugh trained a generation of Republicans to be toadies lest they face the accusation of being RINOs. Is my contempt showing yet?
Trump clone Roger Ailes’s and his spawn have been teaching their loyal followers to see the splinters in Liberal eyes since Rupert Murdoch created the “fair and balanced” Fox news channel with its eye candy, news girls. I wonder how many of their loyal viewers will be able to see past the logs in their eyes to the man who would be happy to **** their wives and daughters.
