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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP suicide vest
I said Trump at top of the GOP ticket would be like campaigning with a guy wearing a suicide vest.
And here they are:
https://twitter.com/billmon1/status/739700942887657472
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/05/politics/gop-fears-donald-trump-judge-attack/
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GOP suicide vest (Original Post)
kpete
Jun 2016
OP
Ooh, Rick Wilson is getting serious about Trump - "word vomit that spews from his mouth"
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2016
#2
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)1. Great cartoon
muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)2. Ooh, Rick Wilson is getting serious about Trump - "word vomit that spews from his mouth"
This is from a Republican:
Imagine its the Fall of this year and youre a U.S. House or Senate candidate in a swing district or state. Your Democratic opponent is running a low-risk campaign, having pivoted to the slightly-center-left with aplomb. Regardless of their actual beliefs, theyve got their masks bolted on tight, staying relentlessly on message as technocratic middle-of-the-lane moderates. Barack Obamas approval numbers keep creeping higher and higher as a kind of at least hes not crazy or obviously corrupt vibe sets in with the public. It makes your Obamacare, Benghazi, tranny bathrooms message cluster feel less promising than it did last year when you were planning this run, doesnt it?
Your pollsters and strategists are hunting for a message and a tone where you can capture the anger and unrest of the Trump voters without becoming Trump-like, because no matter who you are, youre not Donald Trump. You dont have the built-in pad of celebrity and reality-television brand image. You dont have the weird media dynamic where the spectacle of Trumps shitshow du jour seems to erase yesterdays insanity with a new hot mess. To your credit, youre also not utterly insane and suffering from political Tourttes syndrome. I hate to tell you this, but its not working.
...
I get it. You were terrified of his online horde of low-information whackjobs, neo-Nazi trolls, red-hat jackasses and their endless, febrile demands that you worship at the foot of Agent Orange. Hell, youre a politician. You want to be loved. He was beating all the people you liked and respected, one after another. The media kept making him the spotlight, the hot focus of attention and you wanted some of that mojo, didnt you? Bad call.
...
You own his politics. You own his policies, even the ones that only last as long as the next contradiction. You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth. You own his racist bleatings about Mexicans and his African Americans. You own his digital Hitler Youth alt-reich fanboys with their white-power fantasies and roaring anti-Semitism.
http://heatst.com/politics/after-judge-curiel-what-will-endorsing-donald-trump-do-to-gop-candidates/
Your pollsters and strategists are hunting for a message and a tone where you can capture the anger and unrest of the Trump voters without becoming Trump-like, because no matter who you are, youre not Donald Trump. You dont have the built-in pad of celebrity and reality-television brand image. You dont have the weird media dynamic where the spectacle of Trumps shitshow du jour seems to erase yesterdays insanity with a new hot mess. To your credit, youre also not utterly insane and suffering from political Tourttes syndrome. I hate to tell you this, but its not working.
...
I get it. You were terrified of his online horde of low-information whackjobs, neo-Nazi trolls, red-hat jackasses and their endless, febrile demands that you worship at the foot of Agent Orange. Hell, youre a politician. You want to be loved. He was beating all the people you liked and respected, one after another. The media kept making him the spotlight, the hot focus of attention and you wanted some of that mojo, didnt you? Bad call.
...
You own his politics. You own his policies, even the ones that only last as long as the next contradiction. You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth. You own his racist bleatings about Mexicans and his African Americans. You own his digital Hitler Youth alt-reich fanboys with their white-power fantasies and roaring anti-Semitism.
http://heatst.com/politics/after-judge-curiel-what-will-endorsing-donald-trump-do-to-gop-candidates/