GOP must destroy Donald Trump before he destroys them. It may already be too late
Trump is the latest Joseph McCarthy or George Wallace. The GOP must excise the poison. History says they won'tRANDALL J. STEPHENS
Slightly hunched over and surrounded by a forest of “Jeb!” signs and shouting supporters, Jeb Bush was pressed by a reporter about the bigoted, race-baiting comments made by leading GOP candidate, hotel mogul and kitsch peddler Donald Trump. Jeb, seeming like he did not particularly relish the chance to answer this question, remarked, “I don’t assume that he thinks that every Mexican crossing the border is a rapist.”
Bush was holding back and making excuses. Surely the Trump stunt, Bush figured, was meant to “inflame and incite and draw attention, which seems to be the organizing principle of his campaign.” The coiffed king of bad taste did not represent the Republican Party, said Bush. But is that really true? Republican Party renegades can always tack to the far right. It pays to do so.
Trump has been polling amazingly well. Apparently his comments about drug-smuggling Mexicans, anchor babies, rapists and jobless chiselers have helped him with the crimson-red base of the party. Many major news polls place him second — some even in first. He and his swooped coif have a strong chance of appearing in the first TV debates scheduled for Aug. 6.
Where is the outrage from other GOP candidates? Some respond to Trump’s bomb throwing with little more than a shrug of the shoulders. Others express the kind of dissatisfaction a suburbanite might register at crabgrass on the neighbor’s lawn. Said Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, “I’m not going to engage in the media’s game of throwing rocks and attacking other Republicans.” In fact, the senator commented, “I salute Donald Trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration.”
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The Frankenstein Monster the 'pukes created over the years is now pulling the castle down on top of them.
thank goodness for trump
is a sham tack to try and convince people they are not a bunch of radical rw loons. i think in order to be successful, they need reasonable moderate gop-ers (not mconnell) to speak out hard against trump's lunacy and once and for all call out their racist, xenophobic nutty base.
keeping fingers crossed.....
If that doesn't destroy Trump, nothing will. Although he is the guy who is saying what they are secretly thinking. 
and they say that like it's a bad thing. Go figure. 
I see it as an opportunity for all the "moderate", "centrist", "corporatist", and "right-leaning" Democratic congresscritters (like those who voted for TPA) to follow their hearts and form the NEW republican party, and leave the rest of us the hell alone. You'd be left with two semi-sane parties (left and right, but not so far right that they worship Ghengis Khan) to conduct the country's business, and all they'd really have to fight tooth-and-nail over is who has to take Zell Miller. Sounds like a win-win to me.