“Speak no ill of a fellow Republican,” Ronald Reagan said. And although he has been canonized within the party, and his word is taken as near-holy writ on virtually every subject, his flock has wandered rather egregiously on this one point.
Donald Trump started it, of course. That much we can agree on. And when you are all campaigning on a third grade level, questions such as who started it are important to clarify. Trump’s verbal kill shots were deployed early and lavishly. And now the other candidates are joining in the fun.
How is this possible? The sober alternative to Trump was supposed to stay up there on the high road. But unfortunately Trump’s tactics were all too effective. So out with the 11th Commandment, which isn’t in the actual bible. Also forsaken was ‘turn the other cheek’, which is. But hey, ‘politics ain’t beanbag,’ which campaign researchers are busy trying to find in there somewhere. Maybe in Revelations, though it hardly would be one.
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No, apparently the GOP hates Trump and his tactics so much that they are going to join him in the gutter to beat him.
How this all came to pass has the Republican elite flummoxed. Apparently they don’t actually watch the programming they have been beaming at their base nonstop for a generation. In any case, the hour now is late to retake control of their own party. But maybe with a few more choice invectives about wet pants and small ‘hands’ maybe they can turn the tide, rescue the nomination, win the election, and proceed to burn the planet to a cinder with unfettered CO2 emissions, because science isn’t in the bible either.
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