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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEugene Robinson: The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-schoolyard-scuffle/2016/02/29/8c1767f0-df1a-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html?postshare=2491456800087755&tid=ss_twThe GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show
By Eugene Robinson
Opinion writer
February 29 at 7:30 PM
The race for the Republican presidential nomination couldnt possibly get any more bizarre, appalling, puerile, embarrassing, self-destructive or
Hold on, this just in: It did.
When have we ever seen such a shameful and low-minded spectacle? Comparison to the seriousness and decorum of an elementary school playground is an insult to second-graders. What this campaign needs is a timeout chair, or perhaps a stout wooden ruler for rapping knuckles.
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Trash-talking, alliances, conspiracies, betrayals this whole campaign has become a reality-television show. The problem is that its on every single channel.
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Eugene Robinson: The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2016
OP
panader0
(25,816 posts)1. Eugene Robinson is a gem.
"A shameful and low minded spectacle" indeed.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)2. Except for their running to be leaders of the free world.
spanone
(135,844 posts)3. K&R...
Monk06
(7,675 posts)4. GOP politics is the Jerry Springer show It took 25 years for them to get with the program but
this election they did it
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)5. Low-minded sums it up perfectly.
Every time I hear a commentator talk about a candidate doing something to "appeal to his base," I say to myself that base also sums that up perfectly - appealing to the baser instincts of the human species.
malaise
(269,054 posts)6. Must read
K & R