It was a stunning lesson in irony.
When the grumpy old patricians of the Grand Old Party trotted out Mitt Romney to denounce Donald Trump, the event fizzled in the same way that Richard Nixon fizzled when he denounced the Washington Post for lying about Watergate.
There was Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, former Republican nominee for president, a one-percenter and champion caretaker for the upper crust, telling America why the Republican party, the party of inclusion, should exclude Trump from its frazzled crew of candidates for president.
Trump’s erratic pronouncements on national security threaten the sanctity of American foreign policy, Romney said. Trump’s foreign policy invites danger and would make America and the world less safe; “he has neither the temperament nor judgment to be president.” There was more: Trump’s domestic policies would lead to recession, his scorn for minorities and his demeaning treatment of women and the disabled make him unfit to be president, or even a candidate for president, Romney said. Sen. John McCain and others of the new old guard agreed. Trump must go.
The Romney event may be stale news but the force of its paradox remains fresh: Every accusation fired at Trump is a prime fit for his two prominent challengers.
Irresponsible foreign policy? The U.S. had barely reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba, ending a 60-year freeze, when Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and son of Cuban immigrants, denounced the agreement and demanded that we close our new embassy in Havana. Sen. Ted Cruz, the firebrand evangelical from Texas, would “carpet-bomb” the Middle East in search of ISIS. Cruz and Rubio would permanently cripple
Planned Parenthood and have pledged undying support for an end to all abortion, which some see as a threat to women’s health care. Cruz and Rubio both support deportation of nearly 12 million illegal Mexicans, and placing American Muslims on a national “watch list,” and abolishing the Affordable Care Act, whose clients include nearly 40 million previously uninsured Americans.
All the denouncements of Trump, the rants about his dangerous foreign policy, his erratic economics, even his “misogyny” (Romney is a Mormon, a faith that consigns women to male subjugation.), are only so much smoke.
What truly bothers the Republican lords is that Trump can’t be controlled. Unlike Romney, or Cruz, Rubio, McCain and others, Trump is his own boss. He can’t be bought, sold or told what to do and say. It drives the nabobs nuts.
So they trot out someone like Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, an over-achiever among crackpot fringe initiates, to announce that a party led by Trump would not present its best interests. “If our party is no longer working for the things we believe in – like defending the sanctity of life, stopping Obamacare, protecting the Second Amendment, etc. … then people of good conscience should stop supporting that party until it is reformed,” Sasse said in a statement.”
Put another way: Trump won’t do what we say, stick to the script, or repeat after us. Not even the Kochs can buy him. He is as crazy as we are, but he isn’t us, and we can’t have people who aren’t us.
The bosses have stepped in it, and they’re stuck with Trump.
No matter how hard they try, Trump isn’t easily scraped from the bottom of a shoe.
Pretty pathetic hate piece written here. Indeed, you dumb boomer cucks are something we’ve unfortunately stepped in, and now it’s taking forever to scrape you off our shoes via the “affordable care act” panels refusing you medical procedures, plus the Clinton Admin. totally plundering your Social Security funds, and now millions of worthless low IQ immigrant criminals whose children will totally devour the public purse and most likely view all of you childless elderly folks as easy targets for robbery and assault. But go ahead and keep your snarkuments coming, John. By the way, does anybody want to dox this guy for us? Clearly McCarthy knew what he was doing; these neo-communist liberal effeminates need to be shunned and deprived of any ability to make an income or affect the public discourse. This has gone on way too long now, and our country is teetering on the edge of disaster as a result. You just hate your own kind so much John that it gives you sick pleasure to promote everything disastrous and evil towards us. Maybe you need lift up your myopic marxian eyes and squint real hard at the situation around us, and realize that you’re definitely not high-ranking enough in the Marxist Kool-aid club to be saved from the inevitable chaos and violence you’re bringing into our midst.
TRUMP 2016, Godspeed.
Sounds like someone got their poor little lib-feelz hurt by the meanie God King, Donald Jupiter Trump, who seems to actually care about his own country, a sentiment most hated by Left extremists. How sad. Don’t worry; your black jesus Obama is flooding this country with your beloved inbred muslims and African refugees with an average IQ in the low 80’s, so you’ll soon get all the “cultural enrichment” you can handle, old man. It’s gonna be sweet to watch.