2016 Postmortem

The Polack MSgt

(13,191 posts) Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:17 PM Oct 2016

So George Will wrote that Trump is a chemo treatment for the GOP

I don't buy that metaphor at all.

If he wants an apt medical metaphor, how about this one?

Donald Trumps campaign is an ongoing MRI showing what's been going on inside the GOP for years

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So George Will wrote that Trump is a chemo treatment for the GOP (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 OP

how about enema gopiscrap Oct 2016 #1

I don't think that The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #2

OMG you're right! gopiscrap Oct 2016 #4

I agree Kennah Oct 2016 #9

love it gopiscrap Oct 2016 #10

More like an STD NoGoodNamesLeft Oct 2016 #3

Sorry George but that's not how it works. GeorgeGist Oct 2016 #5

Lots of people don't survive chemo, Georgie. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2016 #6

The whole analogy is based on the thought that it will change Cosmocat Oct 2016 #7

If you spend decades tossing lit matches around The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #8

Trashbag is more like the actual cancer than chemo...and it may be terminal Cakes488 Oct 2016 #11

Trump and strumpsters are a disease symptom, a Hortensis Oct 2016 #12

I love the last paragraph of Will's column: CajunBlazer Oct 2016 #13

gopiscrap

(23,762 posts)

1. how about enema

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:19 PM

Oct 2016

he's flushing out all the shitstains so we can see who they are

The Polack MSgt

(13,191 posts)

2. I don't think that

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:20 PM

Oct 2016

They have a big enough hose to flush it all out

gopiscrap

(23,762 posts)

4. OMG you're right!

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:22 PM

Oct 2016

Kennah

(14,293 posts)

9. I agree

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 03:18 PM

Oct 2016

gopiscrap

(23,762 posts)

10. love it

Reply to Kennah (Reply #9)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 04:25 PM

Oct 2016

NoGoodNamesLeft

(2,056 posts)

3. More like an STD

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:21 PM

Oct 2016

And he infected the GOP rectally...

That's a more polite way to say what I'm thinking.

GeorgeGist

(25,322 posts)

5. Sorry George but that's not how it works.

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:27 PM

Oct 2016

Trump is the cancer.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)

6. Lots of people don't survive chemo, Georgie.

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:30 PM

Oct 2016

Cosmocat

(14,566 posts)

7. The whole analogy is based on the thought that it will change

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:30 PM

Oct 2016

it won't ...

And, the analogy is that the party gave birth to him.

He didn't happen to it, he is a product of it.

The Polack MSgt

(13,191 posts)

8. If you spend decades tossing lit matches around

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:33 PM

Oct 2016

Don't expect sympathy when your house burns down

I love mixed metaphors

Cakes488

(874 posts)

11. Trashbag is more like the actual cancer than chemo...and it may be terminal

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 04:27 PM

Oct 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

12. Trump and strumpsters are a disease symptom, a

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 06:06 PM

Oct 2016

purulent, weeping rash on America.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)

13. I love the last paragraph of Will's column:

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Original post)

Fri Oct 14, 2016, 06:21 PM

Oct 2016

Today, however, Trump should stay atop the ticket, for four reasons. First, he will give the nation the pleasure of seeing him join the one cohort, of the many cohorts he disdains, that he most despises — “losers.” Second, by continuing to campaign in the spirit of St. Louis, he can remind the nation of the useful axiom that there is no such thing as rock bottom. Third, by persevering through November 8 he can simplify the GOP’s quadrennial exercise of writing its post-campaign autopsy, which this year can be published November 9 in one sentence: “Perhaps it is imprudent to nominate a venomous charlatan.” Fourth, Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy, a nauseating but, if carried through to completion, perhaps a curative experience.

http://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/columnists/will_george/trump-is-the-gop-s-chemotherapy/article_04f0a1ec-9180-11e6-a53c-5bf4ac45be14.html

Though I agree that Trump can be best characterized as a cancer rather than chemotherapy.

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