Their dignity window is closing

[kpete]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/08/01/the-khan-family-highlights-a-huge-gop-problem-no-one-knows-how-low-trump-can-go/

[roamer65]

1. The stampede will happen very soon.

I'd say after Labor Day is the cutoff. That's when people seriously begin to look at the election.

[Trust Buster]

2. I agree. At this point the Republicans political calculations look a little too cute. The situation

has reached the political tipping point. But, would it be fair if a fresh, unvetted Kasich were allowed to just stroll onto center stage without the vetting that Hillary has been subjected to ?

[sarae]

5. No, it wouldn't be at all fair...

and that's what scares me, because when have Republicans ever been fair?

[pinboy3niner]

3. We expected some to at least have the moral courage to stand up

Sadly, we were mistaken.

[sarae]

6. The Republican Party is made up

of the biggest cowards to ever walk the face of this earth.

[pinboy3niner]

7. The Trump Purple Heart fiasco is a prime example

Five Vietnam deferments, proudly accepts vet's Purple Heart medal.

[Skittles]

10. SCHEDULING PINBOY3NINER FOR ASS KICKING

EXPECTING REPUKES TO HAVE MORAL COURAGE: *EGREGIOUS*

[rufus dog]

11. No shit

this is going down exactly as I expected. They will hide, ask Donald to play nice, then have a few "acceptable" days, then another blow up. Each one bigger than the last.

[Skittles]

12. gawd, to be a fly on the wall in the meetings

[rufus dog]

13. we have all been there

You begin to think about speaking up to stop the mess, then realize, wait, both of these guys are assholes.

[Nitram]

4. It closed quite a while ago. Just about the time they failed to disavow Trump when...

...he called Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers.

[yellowcanine]

8. For Ryan and McCain it has already closed imo.

[gratuitous]

9. I think the forgive-and-forget phase has already passed

And I'm not inclined to cut any elected Republican anywhere any slack at all who has stood silently by and watched this burgeoning shitshow. I don't know that I can pinpoint the exact moment when silence marked a person as complicit (reasonable people disagree!), but that moment has definitely come and gone for me.

No, you don't get to go back to normal after this, Republicans. You must be made to answer for your crimes this time.