George Will is hilarious! Trump is a "Banana Republican."

[kwassa]

no critic like a outraged Republican

"Trump's vile candidacy is chemotherapy for the GOP"

WASHINGTON – What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign's theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek "Lock her up!" This presaged his Banana Republican vow to imprison his opponent.

The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.

Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today's righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump's feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm's-length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: "When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong."

much more entertaining stuff in this piece ...

http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/trump-s-vile-candidacy-is-chemotherapy-for-the-gop/article_04701677-b32e-5640-a189-11b28fb4dec0.html

[MineralMan]

1. How can you have a "banana republic" if you have no banana?

Answer me that, Drumpf.

[PatSeg]

2. Oh Snap!

[BSdetect]

3. I remember recoiling in horrow the first time I heard drumph

That was enough to tell me he was a stupid fuck.

Only now some people are seeing him for what he is?

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Wow

"Third, by persevering through Nov. 8 he can simplify the GOP's quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published Nov. 9 in one sentence: 'Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.'"

Dayuuuuuuuuuuum.

[randome]

8. They paid no attention to their last autopsy.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[DFW]

9. Not to forget point number 4

" Trump is the GOP's chemotherapy, a nauseating but, if carried through to completion, perhaps a curative experience. "

Basically the same as the Hillary-haters--purportedly on the left--saying we need Trump to triumph on the right in order to hasten the revolution on the left, taken straight from the handbook of a 1970s Uruguayan group of armed revolucionarios (¡los Tupamaros viven todavía!).

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. I don't think he's saying they need Trump to win

I think he's specifically saying that Trump losing will teach them something about the kind of candidates they WILL need to win.

[DFW]

14. I didn't, either

I was saying that Will hopes that this time will somehow, the flames that are consuming the Republican Party, will, Phoenix-like, give rise to a "better (in his eyes)" Republican Party, new, refreshed, full of enlightened, tax-hating, libbrul-hating, free-market loving, Catholic Inquisitioners (who don't burn you at the stake, just put you in a room with Fox News for 20 years, so as to fry only your brain, not your torso), or something similar to Will's liking, anyway.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Love it! The Missoulian has always been an awesome newspaper.

[yellowcanine]

6. Pigs are flying. I agree with a George Will column.

[anamandujano]

7. Not bad at all.

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[sofa king]

11. Triumph of the Will!

[JHB]

12. Let us all repeat the Ivy League conservative oath...

"Next, time, you meatheaded peasants better vote the way your betters tell you to!"

[BlueProgressive]

13. "Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan." Indeed!

This whole thing is pretty brutal.