In a last-ditch effort to stop Donald Trump’s likely nomination as the Republican Party’s candidate for president, more than 50 conservative foreign policy experts have signed an open letter condemning the real estate magnate as unfit for the office.
From stating that he’ll make Japan — a close U.S. ally — pay for its longstanding American support, to vowing to kill the families of terrorists, Trump’s rhetoric appears to have finally crossed a line for those conservatives who have made their careers in foreign policy.
(Washington Post, March 3, 2016)
Most notably, though, Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, delivered an urgent national address on Thursday morning. In it, he denounced Trump as a phony and a fraud – whose promises are worthless and whose third-grade antics make him unsuitable to be president of the United States.
True to form, Trump promptly vindicated Romney’s denunciation during the Republican presidential debate on Thursday night. For he spent more time hurling insults and boasting about his penis than discussing the issues of national concern.
I commend Republicans for trying to stop Trump’s fractious and seemingly inexorable march to the nomination. But I fear their #NeverTrump efforts will prove too little, too late.
Nothing indicates this quite like this monster at large stomping off today from a command performance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Reports are that it was last seen heading for Kansas – presumably to get as far away from the land of Oz, where Republicans created it, as possible.
But, trust me folks, it is as much a cardinal sin for a Republican to defy the CPAC as it is for a bishop to defy the Vatican.
Incidentally, I appreciate the alarm that has seized Romney and so many panicked Republican leaders. I maintain, however, that the problem is not Donald Trump (or, courtesy of comedian John Oliver, Donald Drumpf). Rather, it is the media bosses who cover him and the gullible fools who support him: the former see him as nothing more than a ratings godsend; the latter are as addicted to his vulgar antics as rubberneckers are to train wrecks.
On the other hand, you’ve probably seen Trump raging against the media during his ubiquitous presence on TV. But this makes about as much sense as a junkie raging against his dealer, no?
In any event, it might fall to Democrats to kill this Trumpenstein (or Drumpfenstein) in November. But, if they fail, God help America….
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