Lying Down With Dogs
It’s said that when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Well, it looks like the GOP has now coined a new truism of the canine variety: When you support a rabid dog, you wind up foaming at the mouth.
I remember the early days of Trump’s campaign, when Republicans struggled to un-do the damage every time the Tangerine Nightmare opened his mouth. They invariably described his insults of women, minorities, the disabled, et al as inartfully expressed, less than eloquent, and poorly phrased. Overnight, they turned themselves into interpreters, translating their nominee’s outrageous, hate-filled spew into merely an expression of sincere concern for the nation and its well-being – as expressed by a politically naive man unused to polishing his turds before presenting them for public consumption.
Even as the “grab their pussies” tape hit the airwaves, the Republicans dismissed it as “locker room talk”, reducing its clearly misogynist intent as merely being “naughty language” that menfolk indulge in – all in good fun, of course.
But in the aftermath of the should-have-been-expected outrage, the GOP apparently decided that if you can’t beat ‘em, you can always join ‘em – and they have done so with enthusiasm rather than shame.
We have heard so-called conservative “Christian leaders” declaring that Donald Trump – a man who has no qualms about admitting that he cheats hard-working people out of their money, while inviting men to see his own daughter as a “piece of ass” – as a model of moral rectitude who’s just a bit rough around the edges.
We have heard Rudy Guiliani stating that Hillary Clinton should be wearing an orange jumpsuit, because bullying women has now become the GOP norm. We have listened as Newt Gingrinch attacked Megyn Kelly for being “fascinated with sex” when she dared discuss Trump’s own well-known words and actions, confirming that Republicans are fully on-board with seeing poor Donald as the victim of out-of-control females.
We have watched as the powers-that-be on the other side of the aisle have demeaned and ridiculed the targets of Trump’s political blatherings as deserving of ridicule, as citizens who have no right to object to being demeaned. We have watched as the oft-touted GOP phrase “good Christian family values” has been reduced to including the principles of a bigoted, xenophobic misogynist who thinks blacks are lazy by nature, Mexicans are rapists, Muslims are terrorists, the poor are moochers looking to game the system, and women are soulless harpies who need to shut the fuck up.
Instead of containing the rabid dog, the Republicans have chosen to coddle him, to defend him, to condone him, and to recommend him as suitable to govern a nation. Rather than wipe the tell-tale foam off the rabid dog’s mouth, they have decided to share his sickness and spread it. Rather than say “he is not representative of us”, they have chosen to adopt his positions, and stand behind everything that is repugnant, everything that is clearly un-American, everything that they themselves once denounced.
I will give Donald Trump credit where it’s due. He has exposed the GOP as a party who will abandon its own oft-touted “principles” when convenient, and a party more than willing to sell out their own fellow citizens in an effort to see a rabid dog in the Oval Office.
We on the Democratic side of the aisle are eternally grateful for Trump’s efforts. His damage to the GOP has been invaluable. The snarling rabid dog has been unleashed, and his defenders have been exposed as what they’ve always been: spineless hypocrites who would rather denounce everything they once held to be true than admit they’ve been hypocrites all along.
It was one thing for the Republicans to defend their candidate - that was expected. It is quite another thing to mimic him, and adopt his foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric as being what you stand for.
What the GOP seems to be ignorant of is the fact that despite their codding, their "give him what he wants" position, their "be his best friend" attitude, a rabid dog will always bite you in the end – and it will be a long time before the teeth marks on the ass of the Republicans fade away.
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What a visual!!!
