After the eleventh Republican Presidential Debate last night, Donald Trump actually said something I agree with. There shouldn’t be any more of them. As he put it “You can only answer the same question so many times.”
As I watched this “event” all I could see were four two-year old brats throwing a tantrum fit, and one teenager trying to act like an adult. In other words, I watched something that was totally irrelevant in the real world.
It was really the perfect ending to a perfect day that was full of bullshit. The day started with Mitt Romney lashing out against a Trump candidacy in a boring useless speech. Then Marco Rubio started whining and crying on stage like a spoiled two year-old brat. Then Ted Cruz started invoking St. Ronald Reagan’s name all the while acting more like Joseph McCarthy.
Once again, the closet wacko left in the race John Kasich sounded like the grown up in the room. Of course, conservatives weren’t really listening to him. And, I will give him credit, when he was “baited” by the moderators to join the fight, he declined even stating “I won’t get baited in like that.”
It was very apparent to me that Fox News was using the debate to find someone to back. Since they already gave up on Rubio, they absolutely hate the monster they created Trump, and don’t seem to think Kasich is “conservative enough” for them, I guess they will eventually back Cruz.
Cruz is known far and wide by everyone with a brain for his McCarthyism tactics. He hurls accusations against people like they are facts and dares them to prove him wrong. Funny though, at one point he rattled off about four times he won at the Supreme Court. Although the record says he won two cases out of eight. Typical Republican math!
We heard over and over about how bad and weak our military is. Okay, just for one minute, let us assume Cruz and co. are right. I never heard one of the moderators ask “How are you going to pay for a military buildup?” They are, after all, the party that says you must pay for increases in budget expenses.
As a veteran, I want to be clear for the record. If there is a President Trump, and he gave me an illegal order, I would refuse to carry it out in accordance with my oath! So, if he ordered me to kill the family of a “terrorist” I would refuse. Especially since that would be considered a “war crime”. My oath does not allow me to commit war crimes!
I admit, I zoned out a few times, but I didn’t hear too much about the poisoning of the Flint Water by Republican policies. I didn’t hear anything about why Mike Lee, a Cruz lover, refuses to allow a vote on the relief bill for Flint either. The debate was held in Michigan. I would think out of courtesy to the state’s voters these topics would get more time from the candidates.
So, we have had another useless “debate” held by a useless “news network”. I cannot believe that some writers are using a headline like “the most important parts of last night’s debate.” There were no important parts to last night’s debate. Unless you consider temper tantrums something important.
On the other hand, there is one bit of news that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. Since all of the candidates seem to love and want to “be like Reagan”, why wasn’t there a question from Fox News moderators about the comments made by former Reagan Advisor Bruce Bartlett?
In case you missed it, and probably did, Bartlett said openly on The Last Word Wednesday hosted by Lawrence O’Donnell. O’Donnell asked:
What has happened to the Republican Party and how long has it been happening?
First they got rid of liberal Republicans, then they got rid of responsible Republicans who would never dream of bringing the country to the brink of fiscal calamity by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, and now they are on the verge of nominating a candidate who John Oliver calls ‘a serial liar.
Bartlett put the blame on former Vice President Dan Quayle. Bartlett, who also served in the George H.W. Bush administration, explained to O’Donnell.
There was no there, there.
Bartlett argued that it was the former vice president’s vacuous ways that inspired the likes of his then chief of staff, Bill Kristol.
I think that’s where they got the idea that somebody like Sarah Palin could be controlled and manipulated to be a talking head with people like Bill Kristol pulling the strings and the result is that they’ve so dumbed down the Party that Trump is viable.
He said he voted for Trump in the Virginia Primary and explained his vote this way.
My goal is to try to destroy the Republican Party. I think only when it has reached rock bottom can responsible Republicans once again come back and make it a reasonable governing party.
Right now the party just a coalition of cranks, and racists and bigots and religious kooks. The Tea Party have to be run out of the Party completely. And I think Trump is the vehicle that will allow that to happen.
Bartlett explained it this way:
I think if he gets the nomination, and I hope he does, he will go down to a historic defeat. I think the Republican establishment will have no choice but to disown him. I think there will be a very substantial “Republicans for Hillary” effort and I think he will lose disastrously and hopefully bring down a lot of Republican senators and congressmen with him.
WOW!!! This from a man who was an advisor to St. Ronald Reagan, the one President all of these Republicans want to be like! Yet, at last night’s debate, there were no questions about his remarks like there were about Romney’s remarks. Can you guess why?
I am not a fortune-teller. I do not read minds. As a matter of fact, I always tell my kids I had to work for a living because I flunked mind reading school. That said, it is difficult to see how these other “candidates” will stop Trump. I am guessing that there will be a brokered convention, and people like Rubio are paying for it.
But, if the party selects someone other than the front-runner, especially if that front-runner is Trump, it will have hell to pay. I don’t see Trump or his supporters backing the nominee in that instance. It will give Trump the excuse he needs to run a third-party bid because he was “treated unfairly” by the party.
The Republican Party has turned itself into a tragic comedy. The problem with that is the American People are the losers, again. This civil war will wage through the convention in Cleveland this summer. It will be ugly, bloody and not serve the people. But, then again, the Republicans haven’t served the people for decades!
