It seems the GOP might be down in the Trumps this month......

So about a month back I wrote a 4 part blog trying to explain why the GOP field was full of jokes this time around. Turns out I should have waited. Because now I can do it in a single sentence:

Donald Trump is the Republican Frontrunner.

If your a republican that sentence should send chills up and down your spine.

Especially since the polls that made Trump the frontrunner were conducted AFTER he decided all Mexicans were rapists.

Actually its worse than that. See Trump went on CNN not long after declaring Mexican's rapists and the following exchange took place:

Basically if I understand Trumps point (always a risky premise) something like 80% of the women who enter this country illegally are rapists.......because they were victims of rape. Cause yea it appears Trump doesnt actually understand the difference between rapists and rape victims.

I mean he kind of maybe gets it at the end....he understands at least someone is doing the raping.....but just assumes it could in no way be Americans exploiting the illegals, border patrol officers, Mexicans bringing them to the border but not crossing themselves, ect. None of these other options are possibilities for Trump.

Trump seems to think there is a sign on the border that says "Welcome to America...please be prepard to rape to pay entry fee"........


Oh and then theres the bit about Jeb Bush's wife Columbia in which he retweeted this:

""@RobHeilbron: @realDonaldTrump #JebBush has to like the Mexican Illegals because of his wife.""

Now admittedly its a retweet, but still kinda awkward for a guy who just called all Mexicans rapists. also, might be worth noting Mrs Bush came here legally something like 40 years ago....so yea assuming she was illegal...also awkward.

Granted he's paying some price for this shit and it looks a bit like this:

First it was the largest Hispanic television network in the US, Univision, that refused to broadcast his Miss Universe pageant (also worth noting the hosts of the pageant and some of the competitors also quit).

In response, Trump banned them from his golf courses (no joke).....oh and included this statement: 
"Please congratulate your Mexican Government officials for having made such outstanding trade deals with the United States. However, inform them that should I become President, those days are over."

Ah yes, because the network caters to Hispanic's they must be mexican....except that they are owned by NBCUniversal, decidedly an american company...


Speaking of NBC....NBC fired him too by kicking him off the apprentice tv show.

Also somewhat ironically he was fired by Televisa...a mexican based TV network that HAD been the carrier of the Miss Universe pageant in that country....and no, they werent banned from his Golf Courses or asked to congratulate their government....possibly because all Spanish speaking TV networks look the same to Trump so he didnt realize they fired him.

And then  Farouk Systems fired him, for those who never heard of them (like me) they make hair care products. So actually this one might be unrelated to his mexican rapists comments....its possible they just now got a good look at that thing on his head.

And then Macy's piled on as they announced plans to stop selling his clothing line.....followed by the manufacturer PVH Corp announcing they are going to stop producing his clothing line. Oh and his
perfume line....also finished says manufacturer Perfumania

  

And they in turn were followed by Nascar, the PGA, and ESPN all of which announced they would not be holding major events at trump owned properties.

Then Serta got in on the fun, ending Trump's line of mattresses.

Then Trumps soon to be opened new hotel in DC started taking hits as a major high class restaurant owner and a celebrity chief both pulled out of a deal to open locations inside the hotel.

Then Trump was "fired" by the FAA. Apparently the FAA had named some navigational locations after him.......but no more.

Finally and lastly for now, HuffingtonPost a major online news site made the decision not to cover Trumps campaign as politics, but instead as entertainment.

Now given HuffingtonPost's liberal bias, I'd bet the conservatives are pissed off as hell about this clear attack on the legitimacy of a republican presidential candidate....

Well according to well know right wing talking head, and son of Former president Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan: "You can't really disagree with The Huffington Post -- he is entertaining."

or the chairman of the Republican Fundraising arm GOPAC who said that HuffingtonPost is a private company, they can choose to report or not on whoever they like, and if trump doesnt like it he can attempt to buy them"

So yea.....it seems a lot of republicans really arnt that concerned with Trump being divorced from their politics.

THEN and only then, after all this happened, did the Donald become the frontrunner.

And how is Trump celebrating his new status? Sucker Punching the guy who lost 8 years ago...John McCain See when someone mentioned that the former POW was a war hero, well Trump had this to say the other day:

“He’s not a war hero, He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

For those who are wondering by the way, during the 5 years McCain was being held and tortured to the point of still suffering from those injuries today....Donald Trump was enjoying his 4 deferments.....one of which was for a bone spur so bad he doenst actually remember which foot it was in.

By the way, thats not the only attack Trump made on McCain this week, as he took to twitter to say that the Senator who is running for reelection

".@SenJohnMcCain should be defeated in the primaries. Graduated last in his class at Annapolis--dummy!"

So yea, not only is that insulting.....its also not true. McCain was NEAR the bottom of his class, but not the bottom. As were Ulysses S. Grant, James Longstreet, Hap Arnold, Philip Sheridan, George Custer, and even if we allow for bottom half Dwight Eisenhower, and John J. Pershing,

proving their is clearly no way to be successful in life if your near the bottom of your class at a military academy *sarcasm*

FINALLY though these comments appear to have woken the sleeping dragon of the RNC.....who seem kinda shocked they have a problem given they never said anything about the rape comments but released this statement anyways.

"Senator McCain is an American hero because he served his country and sacrificed more than most can imagine. Period, There is no place in our party or our country for comments that disparage those who have served honorably.”

So yea, even the RNC now kinda wants trump out of the party.

Course none of this is going to actually matter because the problem here isnt Trump. The problem is the GOP has degraded so much that they are actually now the pro racist rape anti troop party.

For example a FOX news poll released this week says that 68% of the GOP agrees with trump on his immigration and rapist comments......

And who could forget this from the last election:

Which means dont expect a draft dodger attacking a POW to have much impact with his poll standing....except maybe to sky rocket them.

Speaking of the last election, this isnt the first time Trump has managed to expose the core problems with the Republican Base. Cause last time once trump started getting stirring up the issue, polls showed 72% of the GOP either didnt believe Obama was born here (51%) or didnt know (21%).

And then that number pretty rapidly dropped off the map....right after trump did, and the sane side of the GOP was able to step in.

But of course Trump never actually ran last time......so this time I dont think the GOP will get so lucky. This time the GOP seems destined for a reckoning with the far far far right that controls their parties primaries.

And given that this is the same far right that gave them Palin and screwed them on the 2008 elections, the 2010 and 2012 senate elections, and of course the weak sauce field in 2012 (in which Romney won mostly by default cause the other candidates were right wing crazy's)  maybe a head long collusion is what the GOP needs to fix the problem for real this time.

In the meantime though, it appears the GOP is destined to stay down in the trumps for a while.....and I would suggest my republican friends start looking for a 3rd party candidate.