Friday, March 4, 2016

Mitt, We hardly knew you...

  It's big of Mitt Romney to take one for the team, another one that is.  It's possible Mitt might  have been in an even more key position, such as POTUS, if the RNC had not effectively castrated him by forcing him to renege every time he said something that seemed as if he was open to discussion, and potential compromise, on any issue of policy.  So Trump was able to hijack the entire Republican Party, hoist on their own petard, as it were.
   Trump is a master manipulator, posing as a staunch conservative while espousing liberal rhetoric when it suits his purpose.  When confronted, he simply says he has changed his mind, has grown, or was misquoted or was misunderstood or the dog ate his email.  His rabid followers don't care; they have committed to him, regardless.  His Republican opponents, terrified of offending his fervid followers who are raging to cast their votes, label Trump as a lying, conniving, inexperienced, grasping belligerent racist, but still vow to support him if he secures the nomination.  Not one of them has the courage to say they could not accept him as their party's candidate.  They agreed, they say,  to do so.  Even in acknowledgment  that much of Trump's bombastic success has stemmed from his defiance of any rules or any loyalties to anyone but himself, the other candidates bury themselves in the stagnant rigidity that gave birth to the rise of the Trumpster.

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