My wife and I took my daughter and her husband to dinner Wednesday night, saving me from enduring most of the first Republican presidential candidate “debate” in real time.
Still, watching it later I found it a great night of comedy.
Oh, no one really expected Chris Christie to take a position on extra terrestrials, nor could Mike Pence be tricked into damning his former running mate (who sent a crowd to hang him).
Amid hundreds of one-liners aimed at encouraging the lunatic fringe, I must give credit to Nikki Haley for two points she made: 1) Republicans need to admit their collusion in the national debt (at least acknowledging Donald Trump’s $8 trillion in credit card spending), and, 2) Americans don’t want women who have abortions arrested.
I know, that’s a pretty low bar.
Overall, on topic after topic all eight candidates drove into the ravine. They attacked food stamp costs, denied global warming, promised to eliminate the IRS, FBI and a myriad of other necessary federal functions. And, don’t forget six of the eight (including Haley) said they’d support Trump for President – even if he’s convicted, essentially, of sedition.
That’s moronic. That’s also scary.
The highest-polling non-Trump Republicans espouse anti-government lies and repudiate the rule of law. The party of Abraham Lincoln is dead. (Current Republicans would probably endorse the Florida notion that slavery benefited blacks by giving them job training.) The party of Trump thrives.
So, faced with more years of morons dictating Republican dogma – and running Missouri, many other states and perhaps hanging-on to a chamber of Congress – we need to improve our vocabulary. We need a collective for today’s Republicans. You remember, a pod of dolphins, a murder of crows and such.
My proposal: we henceforth refer to combined Republicans as a Calamity of Morons.
Don’t worry. Rest assured that Republicans in our state and across the nation will continue to make stupid laws, trample the rights of voters, end restrictions on pollution, kick sick kids off Medicaid and in many, many other words spread calamity. It’s all they’re willing to do.
Whoops! I forgot: Ron DeSantis wants to invade Mexico. So besides all the other crazy, he wants to imitate Russia and try to take over a neighboring country. Another scheduled calamity.
Glenn