Washington Post editorial board pens frantic op-ed calling for fellow Republicans to stop Trump

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491203/-Washington-Post-editorial-board-pens-frantic-op-ed-calling-for-fellow-Republicans-to-stop-Trump?detail=email

This, an absolutely frantic anti-Trump editorial from the conservative Washington Post editorial board, is hilarious. I encourage you to bask in the whole thing.

THE UNTHINKABLE is starting to look like the inevitable: Absent an extraordinary effort from people who understand the menace he represents, Donald Trump is likely to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. At this stage, even an extraordinary effort might fall short. But history will not look kindly on GOP leaders who fail to do everything in their power to prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer.

The premise, indeed, is that the Republican Party should do "everything in their power" to stop Trump from becoming the nominee. And the board is particularly irritated with the ultra-vapid Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, who has made it clear that he'll be rallying the party behind Trump if Trump is the nominee because no matter how odious Trump's views might be, there's nothing there Reince feels he can't embrace if there's an election on the line. But what about the rest of you Republicans? What about you "serious" conservatives who are always going on about "serious" conservatism? WHY ARE YOU LETTING THIS HAPPEN TO US?

The silence may reflect an absence of courage and also an element of calculation: There was an assumption that Mr. Trump would fade, and that confronting him would only make him stronger.

[jberryhill]

1. As if Rubio or Cruz wouldn't also be disastrous

[davidn3600]

2. Some people really don't like democracy, do they?

I'm no fan of Trump, by any means. But I find a bit of joy watching Republican neocons and elites squirm as the voters in their own party revolt against them.

[longship]

3. Well, not all the block quoted material is WaPo.

Some of it is DKos diary. That's okay.

However, I kind of understand the utter horror in the WaPos editorial board of a Trump nomination, not because of the horror it might inflict on the USA, but just possibly the horror that it might inflict on one of the two political parties in the USA.

I don't shudder about what a trump nominee might breed here. Either Democratic candidate would easily mop the floor with his putatively hirsute mop.

I have never heard in my life a more egocentric bloviator running for any office, let alone POTUS. (Granted, I never knew of either of Huey or Earl Long of LA. But a great Democratic political science professor friend of mine, who I trusted, always spoke very well of Earl.)

Right now, I am assuming that Donald Trump is going to be an utter nightmare for the GOP. I am also pretty damn sure that anything the GOP does to actively stop him at this point will bury that party deeper in the shit pit that they've dug themselves into.

I am going to vote for Bernie Sanders in the MI primary on 8 MAR. And I will support and vote for whoever gets the Democratic presidential nomination in Nov.

That is how we defeat these utter assholes.

We can put the GOP so deep in shit this year that it might take a decade or more for them to regroup. They have nothing going legislatively except their lunatic bills to defund anything and to block anything else.

With the SCOTUS vacancy, which will likely go until autumn, we can nail them with that, too.

We have great chances this year. The GOP will likely lose the Senate and the Oval Office, but we have to turn out at the polls. Then there are all those state offices, which we are badly underwater on.

I know of no time in my life when voting is so damned important for Democrats. It is very disconcerting that turnout in the primaries is down for Dems and up for GOP.

We have to absolutely turn that around unless we want the lunatics running the entire lunatic asylum. Only another lunatic would want that at this time.