GOP took President Biden's bait on this one

[KS Toronado]

It’s fun watching congressional Republican leaders try to claim that President Biden has insulted “half the country” by calling out Donald Trump and his scumbag support base. Republican leaders are walking right into a trap when it comes to this.

Polling shows that a majority of Americans want Trump criminally charged. Polling also consistently shows that about half of Republican voters want someone other than Trump as their 2024 nominee. Yet the Republican Party leadership still clings to Trump’s political carcass.

Watching Joe Biden bait all these midterm Republican candidates into loudly defending Trump, given how toxically unpopular Trump is with general election audiences, is a thing of beauty. The kicker is that the Republicans didn’t have to take this bait. They could have just said nothing in response to Biden’s speech, and tried to prevent the speech from gaining enough oxygen to get any lasting media coverage either way.

And so, even as Donald Trump becomes more toxically unpopular than ever, and even as the Feds prepare to arrest him for espionage in a way that’ll make him even more radioactive with mainstream voters, the Republican Party is marrying itself to Trump’s ghost more loudly than ever. Good. Hopefully the Republicans will continue to make this mistake all the way through November.


https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/i-still-cant-believe-the-gop-took-president-bidens-bait-on-this-one/46954/

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Yes they did, they're so eager to be offended and blame Biden.

Considering that it wasn't aired except on cable news networks, most people probably wouldn't be aware the speech even happened if republicons were capable of keeping their big mouths shut.

[KS Toronado]

4. FYI

Hard to believe but fucker Carlson aired portions of it while Biden was speaking just
to spin how evil Biden is to their viewers. Only watched him about 5 minutes.
So he was even eager to take the bait. This is going to help us in the midterms.

[PSPS]

7. "Only watched (Carlson) about 5 minutes." - Why were you watching him at all?

[KS Toronado]

8. Curious what the enemy was doing

Also checked out ABC/CBS/NBC to see if they were airing, all 3 were not.

[YavapaiBlue]

9. Same

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

[KS Toronado]

11. Welcome to DU!

You live in Yavapai county?

[StrkSrviver]

22. Hope so

That would be 3 of us.

[YavapaiBlue]

25. Yes

Verde Valley

[CatWoman]

12. Hasan watches Tucker so you don't have to

[KS Toronado]

13. Thanks, I'll be checking out his other stuff.

[Brainfodder]

5. So predictable, FAUX OUTRAGE no matter what, these clowns are an embarrassment.

Just the fact I can name 30 obviously corrupted idiots and not take more than 2 mins to do it, tells me all I need to know.

Wish it wasn't so.

So many willing suckers though who still won't let it go!

Charade is up!

[magicarpet]

2. Drink the toxic Kool-Aid .....

It is good for ya.

It might cure Covid.

trDUMP is our almighty Messiah and beloved Fuhrer - all rolled into one.

It is God's Will that he be our leader and dictator.

[Samrob]

3. Trump can only be the traitor Trump because the GOP in the House and Senate allow him to be.

They are complicit.

[spanone]

6. They dream it's 'half the country'.

fuckem

[FailureToCommunicate]

16. Well, too often it IS (too) close to half the voters.

[Mr.Bill]

17. Not only is it not half the country,

it never was.

[KS Toronado]

10. Just thought I'd add this.......

I hope every organization looking into tfg's misdeeds does not issue a warrant for his arrest until
after the midterms. Doing so before might energize his followers, we got Rs backed into a corner
presently like they haven't experienced in years. Let's keep it that way.

[GoCubsGo]

15. And, I'd like to further add...

Every time something happens, Trump just keeps on digging himself even deeper. Just look at the whole warrant situation. We wouldn't have even known about it had he not gone on Fake Twitter and whined and screamed about it. And, every time he demanded that affidavit information get released or demanded a special master, the information that came out was damning. He's just making things worse and worse for himself every time he tries to counterpunch. I'm fine with them dragging it out, especially if it means him racking up even more charges. It deflates his cult, too. Hopefully enough that most of them just stay home on election day.

The other part of it is that he taints all of the other Republicans who are still coming to his defense, which is quite a few of them. Standing behind Trump is not going to end well for quite a few of them. Not to mention that the party is still paying for Trump's legal bills. The longer he's free, the more bills he piles up for them, and the less money they can spend on other things, like smearing Democrats.

[KS Toronado]

21. Excellent insights!

[relayerbob]

14. And for many of those in the half that still support tfg

They would abandon him if they were hearing from the other GOP leadership about how wrong all these issues are.

[Johnyawl]

18. "...Republican Party leadership still clings to Trump's political carcass."

They have no choice. At least 10% of their base is die-hard cult members, the people who follow his rallies, buy his merchandise, send him money and would vote for him even if he shot a pregnant woman in the middle of 5th avenue. If they turn on TFG, that 10% will go home and quit voting. They will follow nobody - not even Deathsantis - like they have followed TFG. As close as most elections are, if they lose that 10% they're out of power for a couple of election cycles.

[onetexan]

19. Best line i've heard all week political carcass

[Tommymac]

20. Thanks for pointing this out! Great read.

This particular line gives me a bad acid trip:

"the Republican Party is marrying itself to Trump’s ghost"

The images in my mind are definitely very Kubrick. ecccchhhh

[KS Toronado]

23. I thought KKK when I read that.

[Rocknation]

24. Well, don't forget about the eight years that Biden spent

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at the side of the Rope-A-Dope kid!!!


Rocknation