Scarborough WaPo Editorial: The GOP must dump Trump

[SunSeeker]

The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain’s military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken are but a few of the lowlights that have punctuated Donald Trump’s chaotic chase for the presidency.
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And the political ride will only get rockier for Trump in the coming days after he suggested that one way to keep a conservative Supreme Court after Hillary Clinton got elected would be to assassinate her or federal judges. Trump and his supporters have been scrambling wildly all day to explain away the inexplicable, but they can stop wasting their time. The GOP nominee was clearly suggesting that some of the “Second Amendment people” among his supporters could kill his Democratic opponent were she to be elected.
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We are in unchartered waters but that does not mean that the way forward is not clear. It is.
1. The Secret Service should interview Donald Trump and ask him to explain his threatening comments.
2. Paul Ryan and every Republican leader should denounce in the strongest terms their GOP nominee suggesting conservatives could find the Supreme Court more favorable to their desires if his political rival was assassinated.
3. Paul Ryan and every Republican leader should revoke their endorsement of Donald Trump. At this point, what else could Trump do that would be worse than implying the positive impact of a political assassination?
4. The Republican Party needs to start examining quickly their options for removing the Republican nominee.

A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/09/the-gop-must-dump-trump/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[HipChick]

1. Wasn't Joe gushing over him a few weeks back?

Trump even follows him on Twitter..

[SunSeeker]

3. Yes, Joe is such a fickle lover.

[agingdem]

9. Exactly

It's not the message Joe objects to it's the messenger!

[glennward]

2. Joe still trying to have it both ways. He is ONE of the reasons Trump is where he is today.

Never forget it!

[SunSeeker]

4. Absolutely.

Sorry Joe, but you can't wash the Trump stench off you!

[MADem]

15. If he says go south, you're better off going north.

He is a Gingrich-trained former Congressman. He doesn't give a crap about "The good of the country" -- he probably hopes someone who is more RELIABLY friendly to him is chosen as a substitute.

[Beaverhausen]

5. Thanks for nothing Joe

Wasn't he in his show every day for months?

[SunSeeker]

7. Yep. But now Trumpie is becoming an embarrassment.

Too late, Joe.

[hibbing]

6. Nice try

But as many people have stated in many different threads, he embodies the Republican party's values. This is not some wild anomaly, it is the logical extension from thirty plus years of race baiting among a bunch of other crap, and here we are.


Peace

[SunSeeker]

8. Exactly. This is what I don't get. Trump embodies the GOP base.

Distancing themselves is pointless. They ARE Trump. It appears his only sin to them is saying shit out loud that they know to keep in private or use code words for.

[Yallow]

18. The Base Overwhelmingly Nominated This Birther Racist

They have to quit when you fire him, and that ain't gonna happen.

You and your right wing friends spawned these rabid haters. You own the, or they on you actually.

Good going Joe.

[JenniferJuniper]

10. Many years too late, Joey

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. The genie is out of the bottle Joe!

There isn't any do-overs.

[catbyte]

12. I wonder if Don the Con has recently read "The Pelican Brief." I've said it before and I'll say it

again: Donald J Trump is nothing but political pornography--no redeeming social value, whatsoever.

It also pisses me off that after months and months of playing footsie with Don the Con, all of a sudden Scarborough is all horrified. Hey, Joe, tough shit. You helped make the monster, you own it.

[Tal Vez]

13. Just to make sure that the GOP can't dump Trump,

President Obama should demand that the GOP dump trump. The last time, he just suggested it.

[SunSeeker]

14. LOL

[trusty elf]

16. The GOP already did!

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[SunSeeker]

17. Indeed!

[world wide wally]

19. And I''m sure Les Moonves is saying "yeah, but he's good for ratings"

I'll bet your ratings will spike if someone gets killed. Wouldn't that be a blessing, Les?

[eShirl]

20. morning kick

[Miles Archer]

21. All very reasonable, except Joe and Mika fawned over Trump for days, and helped create this mess,

"The Republican Party needs to start examining quickly their options for removing the Republican nominee."

They have two "options" at this point...buy him off and convince him to quit, or conduct an "emergency re-writing session" for their own rules.

One other DUer pointed something out yesterday, and I wish I could remember where it was and who posted it so that I could give them proper credit, BUT...in a section of reasons for removing a candidate, the sentence ends with "other."

Meaning they left themselves a tiny little wild card at the end of all the legalese.

Now, that wild card "could" be the fact that Trump called for the assassination of Hillary Clinton and any judges she may choose to nominate...IF the GOP has the backbone to take a principled stand on this and then take action, rather that writing letters that are nothing more than an attempt to distance themselves from whatever may happen in the future.

Their "rule book" simply was not written for circumstances such as these, because they never expected them, or figured they'd talk their way out of them if they happened.

This little incident was not something a blogger pretended to overhear. This one went straight to YouTube and is about as "viral" as viral gets.

I am not intimately aware of the power structure that could get him removed...Reince Priebus + Paul Ryan + an unknown number of "committee members?" But if they shared half a brain between them, they would cancel all appointments today, go behind closed doors today, and make it happen today. Because the house is on fire and the hook & ladder truck ain't gonna make it before November 8th.

For them, it's an emergency, and they can treat it as such, or lose it all in November. That may still happen if they replaced Trump, but if Jeb / Cruz / Kasich / Ryan or any other "replacement" went down in flames, they could still blame Trump for it without having him anywhere in the vicinity. The "replacement" would be a sacrificial lamb for the "greater good" of the GOP, and I have no clue as to the person willing to step up and be that lamb. My guess is "none of the above."

[central scrutinizer]

22. Joe, explain your dead intern first

Before you expect us to give you the time of day