I
could almost feel sorry for the Republicans
Almost.
I
could have predicted that Ted Cruz would drop out of the race for the
nomination. After all, if you re-arrange the letters in Rafael Eduardo Cruz you come
up with a crazed rueful road, and it
has been that, hasn’t it? Just not aa long a rueful road as I thought it would
be.
I
don’t suppose Lyin’ Ted will be on Trump’s short-list for running-mates. Maybe
if Trump (the letters of whose name can be rearranged to read Jump Darn Dolt) wins the Presidency and Cruz loses his Senate seat, the great orange
leader of the free world will appoint Cruz as ambassador to whatever lizard-ridden
swamp-planet Cruz came calls home.
John
Kasich is out of the race. This may be the last time I have to look up the
spelling of his name. We won’t even bother to come up with an anagram for him.
Well, all right, if you insist, John is
hack. An incomplete sentence to match his incomplete campaign.
Remember
that the GOP started with seventeen contenders for the nomination, seventeen! And Trump was the best they
could do?
They
deserve him, you know. The GOP has been the party of the very rich for a long
time. I don’t mean that the average Republican is very rich. The GOP has, for a
long time, been the party that promotes the interests of the very rich. By and
large, the vast majority of Republicans have been working against their own
best interests for generations, as though, deem down they know that, if they
work to make like better for those who are very well-off, they themselves will
magically become well-off, too.
Republicans
have existed as the party that blames immigrants, illegal and otherwise, and
the poor and the scientifically-minded, and those who want gender-equality, for
all of America’s troubles. So, it should not be such a surprise that the Donald
is able to walk right in, say back to the angry GOP members what they have been
saying to themselves and to each other, and he is swept up to the top of the
heap.
I
expect that Trump will try to mend his ways and woo all those of his haters,
hoping to turn them into fans. He has already started.
In
one of his recent speeches he said, "This country, which is very, very
divided in so many different ways, is going to become one beautiful, loving
country, and we're going to love each other. We're going to cherish each other.
We're going to take care of each other."
Damn,
Trump, is orange the new tie-die? Next thing you know, he’ll be promising us
all Peace, Love and Rock and Roll!
Donald
Trump once said, “I love the poorly educated.” I am sure he does – they are
among his biggest supporters. I’ll bet he also has lots of big orange love for
those with short memories. You know they are out there, those people who are
cursing him today, but tomorrow will be swearing they supported the Donald from
the beginning.
I don’t suspect those who truly distrust him will be convinced. So, what are they to do? Stay home? Start feelin’ the Bern? Get an urge to trudge up the Hill? Cast a write-in vote for Ted Nugent or Paul Ryan?
