Tuesday, August 2, 2016

The GOP Forced Donald Into This Shit Show!

Plenty of blame has gone around regarding this election and the consequence of Donald J. Trump becoming the Republican candidate.  The Media, for giving Trump so much air time, Obama/Congress, each for their obstinence, the list goes on. Frankly though, It lays solely on the GOP.  We can go into the history of the last twelve years, or even back to the 1980’s to discuss how we got to this point.  But tonight, I am lazy and don’t want to give a history lesson.


The fact of the matter, Donald Trump didn’t want to get this far.  That is documented truth. A March 28, 2016 open letter from former Trump communications director of a Super Pac for him, a person who knows him well, expressed as much.  For the primaries, he simply wanted to come in a good 2nd, and be done with it.  This would have given him a boost to his ego, fulfilled his blustery bragging of “Someday I’m going to run, and I will win”...and been able to go back to his cherry, three sentence required, world, where he could play spokesperson on the phone with the media, and give out tidbits on what DJT wanted you to know about some imagined, fantasy story on him.


Sadly though, the GOP, out of 16 other candidates, couldn’t muster one person...not one candidate that could out-wit a 3 year old mentality, and overcome the dysfunction of what their party has become. The sad reality of that, though, is that they had too many candidates running. Qualified candidates to be honest. At least reasonable candidates from the Republican point of view. And when you have that many options for reasonable people to choose from, then the reasonable, common sense vote gets spread out among those candidates, and the radical votes concentrates on the loony option. the GOP did not have enough common sense to see this coming, even though this has happened in local and national elections throughout history.


When 68% of the populace says that the country is headed in the wrong direction, but at the same time, President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 52% or higher, who, then is to blame for that wrong direction we are going? Congress has an approval rating of 11%. The GOP controls both houses of Congress.  I think we found our answer.  


So out of 16 other GOP candidates, the electorate couldn’t find one choice that could convince them, that they were any better than a man who can’t comprehend world affairs, economic theories, social issues, or even complex sentences.


Donald tried.  He tried hard to lose it.  His weekly stumbles, racist rants, buffoon like diatribes, uncivil name calling, just weren't enough  to get it done.  He isn’t even good at losing apparently...or the rest of the party is so dysfunctional, it just couldn’t figure out how to overcome Donald’s tripping to the top.



So here he is, stuck with the nomination to an office that even he knows he has no business holding. He even tried to get John Kasich to be his Vice Presidential running mate, so Kasich could do all the work.  This is all well documented.  But his ego won’t let him quit. He is stuck. And you, GOP are stuck with the Tasmanian Devil wreaking havoc on your party, and leaving a wasteland.  There are ALWAYS consequences to your actions. Bye Bye GOP!

4 comments:

  1. An updated theory was added on 8.4.16 at 9:19pm PST.

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  2. I have tried to figure out blame and / or motivations of Trump's candidacy, and I think trying to decipher it is a fool's errand. So here I go.
    I think Pence is the GOPs bandaid to Trump... Pence was forced onto Trump in hopes of putting some semblance of mainstream republican values into the ticket. (Didn't the GOP force my second favorite Wasilla resident onto Senator McCain?)
    I can't blame Trump for his own behavior - after all you don't blame the ill for the disease they have.
    I won't blame the media- because I don't think there is a media conspiracy..... Or any conspiracy about anything... Ever.
    I have to blame the masses of Americans who support him are the real ones to blame. Whether Trump's campaign was a good or not, people bought into it and spent their 'hard -earned' primary ballot on his looney ideas. He's like the 70's "pet rock" - you don't blame the creator for marketing a dumb idea... You blame the consumers that made the pet rock investor a multi-millionaire, $5 at a time.

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    1. Great comment!!!! (Am I your favorite Wasilla (former) resident? Cool if so.) I do think that this became the perfect storm for a demagogue to rise. years of radical talk radio inciting the riot and creating the Frankenstein of the angry voter, (next piece is on that), the fact that there were too many candidates in the primary, spreading out the common sense vote, and I have yet to think of a third legitimate reason for this to write about, but I am sure it will come to me. thanks for the comments.
      The Klondike.

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  3. And... I obviously don't proofread what I write.

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