How about just a couple of weeks ago, each time Trump would say something stupid that disqualifies him from being Commander & Chief, Republicans would say, "gosh golly gee I hope he stops saying stuff like that so I can vote for him in November".
Excuse me??? If a guy says something really stupid in July and doesn't say another thing until November, I'm not going to just forgive or forget that he said that stupid shit in July. But apparently Republicans are big on forgiving and forgetting. As long as it isn't a Democrat who ***** up.
Zackly --- that's why I keep bringing up Tribblehead's blatant threat on the First Amendment, which is indefensible. Those who take the issue on either acknowledge that threat or run away ---- yet continue to Rump-pump with all the blind determination of a pubescent boy perusing porn.
-- which perhaps is Rump's appeal:
Testosterone-porn. It clearly isn't anything related to rationality.
-- And that's just the First -- I don't even bring up the threats to several other Amendments....
=> But that’s
just the beginning of Trump’s assaults on the Constitution. Trump has encouraged the use of torture and
blatantly disregarded privacy protections that have been enshrined in the founding document since the 18th century. He has attacked the basic premises of a constitutionally defined separation of powers, with rhetorical assaults on individual jurists and the federal judiciary so extreme that House Speaker Paul Ryan described one such attack as “
the textbook definition of a racist comment.” He has proposed instituting religious tests. He has shown open and consistent disregard for the promise that all Americans will receive equal protection under the law.
“If implemented, Donald Trump’s proposed policies will spark a constitutional and legal challenge that would require all hands on deck at the ACLU,”
says Romero. “The ACLU and its more than 300 attorneys in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., stand ready to challenge and impede implementation of his unlawful proposals, should he attempt to see them through.”
It should never come to that. The Republicans who gather in Cleveland are heirs to a political tradition that began with an
1856 platform that resolved:
... That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in the Federal Constitution are essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions, and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the States, must and shall be preserved.
A Republican convention that is true to the party’s heritage and the values, expressed not just by past presidents (from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and, yes, even to
George W. Bush) but by the founders and defenders of the American experiment would make a mockery of itself by nominating Donald Trump.
If it does, responsible Republicans should join Democrats and independents in aggressively and absolutely rejecting the nominee of a party that has abandoned its history, its ideals, and its country. <= ---
Republicans Will Nominate a Candidate Who Would Violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments