Wash Post: GOP's Huge Problem - No One Knows How Low Trump Can Go
"Donald Trump’s continuing war with the Khan family — which Trump inexplicably continued to keep in the news this morning with a series of new tweets — raises the specter of a brutal trap for Republicans.
It’s this: If individual Republicans don’t break off their support for Trump’s candidacy now — by, say, withdrawing their endorsements — they run the risk of having no choice but to do so after Trump sinks even further into wretchedness and depravity, to a point of true no return. (Presumably there is such a point.) At that juncture, their move will look unprincipled and desperate, leaving them stained — perhaps irrevocably — with their previous willingness to stick by him during much of his descent, and depriving their break with him of whatever moral force it might have had if done earlier."
"Trump kept the story going this morning, tweeting angrily that Khan had attacked him (reminding us that Trump, not the grieving father of a fallen soldier whose religion Trump attacked, is the truly aggrieved party here) and that this story is not about Khan but is rather about “RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM.” Republicans who have long warned their own party against embracing Trump are noting that this episode shows we are only seeing the beginnings of how unhinged Trump’s candidacy could become.
“Trump is inevitably going to get worse, not better, as his poll numbers get worse,” Tim Miller, a former adviser to Jeb Bush and a frequent Trump critic, told me this morning. “When he’s being criticized and his back is against the wall, he’s going to act out and become more extreme and despicable. Every time we think he’s gone as low as he’s going to go, he manages to sink even lower. There is no argument for waiting until he behaves better.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/01/the-khan-family-highlights-a-huge-gop-problem-no-one-knows-how-low-trump-can-go/
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There will be a hardcore group (I'd say in the 15-20% area) that will NEVER desert him. I had one of his supporters tell me that she didn't care what the facts were. She believed him and that was all that was necessary.
Got to admire a man who can do that these days. I don't want someone who's been in government. We need someone to shake up Washington.
I don't always agree with what Trump says, but my taxes are too high dammit and I'm voting for Republicans up and down the ticket.
Don't kill the messenger. This is what people around me are actually beating their chests about. In their minds, they can cast off his blatant indefensible positions, because when it comes down to MONEY, they believe in republican principles, that it was the republicans who rescued us from the market crash of 2007, not Obama and the democratic congress that got policies changed. And and low taxes. 
This is who we are up against in this election. Not Trump. He could literally start shooting white Christians as a sacrifice to himself as the all mighty deity and they will still support him, BECAUSE HE'S A REPUBLICAN.
We need to pressure every democrat in this free land of ours to get a vote in for Hillary or else these people will give us Trump and a house stacked with even more backwards thinkers.
talk shows, along with how low will those who've endorsed him go. 
a song that actually has something to do with Trump's campaign. Maybe Chubby Checker will let him use it.
