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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe silence of the lambs: Why sheepish GOP leaders have been conspicuously quiet since Donald Trump’
by Gary LeGum at Salonhttp://www.salon.com/2016/09/29/the-silence-of-the-lambs-why-sheepish-gop-leaders-have-been-conspicuously-quiet-since-donald-trumps-debate-debacle/
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Still, it was possible to read in the narrowing polling gap between Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton the possibility that Republicans who had spent months declaring themselves #NeverTrump were now coming home to the GOP. Prominent elected officials like Sen. Marco Rubio, who just a few months nearly broke down in tears over Trumps success, and radio talk-show host Mark Levin, among others, decided the mogul was the lesser of two evils after all and gave him their grudging endorsements.
For crying out loud, even Ted Cruz endorsed Trump, after the latter had derided Cruzs wifes attractiveness and suggested the Texas senators father might have been an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald. The endorsement was likely a craven career move by Cruz more than it was a sign of newfound warmth towards his partys nominee. But considering his antics on the stage of the Republican National Convention two months ago, this might as well have been the Camp David accords.
Then came Monday night, and a Trump performance that ranked as likely the worst ever turned in by a major party nominee in a presidential debate. All of a sudden, you could not find anyone besides Rush Limbaugh and congressional back benchers like Marsha Blackburn to defend the GOPs standard bearer.
For example, RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been missing in action since Monday. Ahead of the debate he tried his hardest to put a positive face on the pile of rotted orange peels in a suit that his party had nominated by suggesting that 14 season finales of Trumps reality show The Apprentice had prepared him for the debate. Priebus Twitter feed, which he has regularly used to slam Clinton, has been almost entirely silent.
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The silence of the lambs: Why sheepish GOP leaders have been conspicuously quiet since Donald Trump’ (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2016
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They go silent so the reality of it does not stick in people's minds. The GOP and GOPers on the
applegrove
Sep 2016
#3
World Series game winners do not criticize the umpire or the sound the bat makes.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2016
#2
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)1. Actually, this sounds about right:
For example, RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been missing in action since Monday. Ahead of the debate he tried his hardest to put a positive face on the pile of rotted orange peels in a suit that his party had nominated by suggesting that 14 season finales of Trumps reality show The Apprentice had prepared him for the debate. Priebus Twitter feed, which he has regularly used to slam Clinton, has been almost entirely silent.
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He relied on a reality show to prepare him for the debate, and it certainly showed!
Meanwhile, in Trumpworld (aka "Alternate Reality" , Trump's senior Communication Advisor Jason Miller insisted that Trump won the debate, as proven by several online polls. Even Chuck Todd was incredulous, pointing out that online polls were "garbage." Jason stuck to his guns, or rather hung by his toenails onto myth.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)3. They go silent so the reality of it does not stick in people's minds. The GOP and GOPers on the
internet went silent on Hillary for weeks after she creamed the GOP Benghazi Committee members during 11 hours straight of testimony in November last year.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)2. World Series game winners do not criticize the umpire or the sound the bat makes.
Everybody knows it's dead, Jim.
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)5. Hillary gave an excellent response to that.n/t
tanyev
(42,559 posts)4. Uh-oh. Has Reince finally gone for the Bailey's and Lucky Charms?
They're magically delic--*thud*