Amusing comment from Salon

[Xavier_Onassis]

Tuesday, Jul 21, 2015 02:35 PM EST
Really, it’s time to shut down the GOP: A deeply unserious party, hijacked by lunatics and Fox News, is driving us all into a ditch
"News" without truth. A base that celebrates a clown. Tear the party down and start over -- for the country's sake
Sean Illing

   
(Credit: AP/Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Rebecca Cook/Charles Sykes)

Republicans are finally noticing that Donald Trump is a political liability. In the wake of Trump’s attack on John McCain, GOP candidates found the courage to condemn his revolting shtick — a little late, of course, but good for them. The problem, though, is that they don’t quite understand that Trump isn’t an anomaly; he’s the latest product of a party that long ago abandoned any pretense of seriousness.

Trump, quite literally, is an actor; he’s delivering the lines his audience (the Republican base) wants to hear. But he’s not the first of his kind. He’s doing what many Republicans have done in recent years: pretend to run for president in order to promote his personal brand. Trump is playing a role previously filled by people like Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann, both of whom, at one point, were front-runners in the race for the Republican nomination. And of course there’s Sarah Palin, the failed reality-TV star and once half-lucid part-time governor of Alaska who Republicans thought capable of running the country.

Everyone (well, almost everyone) acknowledges that Trump is a bloviating clown totally unfit for public office, but is he really that much different than Herman Cain or Sarah Palin? None of these people have any business running for president or vice president or any other office. Bachmann, admittedly, was at least an experienced member of Congress, but her campaign was thoroughly unserious. Like so many of her fellow Republicans, Bachmann became a Pez dispenser of fatuous Fox News talking points – and that’s the problem.

These people exist in the Republican Party for a reason: the GOP sold its soul to Fox News and the broader conservative mediascape years ago. Republicans are now constrained by these forces, which manufacture unhinged, absolutist narratives that dominate discourse in the party. Republicans, as a result, can’t afford to compromise or propose realistic policies – the zealots won’t let them. Worse still, any Republican who dares to step out of line gets pummeled on Fox News for weeks on end. In the face of such pressure, is it any wonder the GOP has become what it has?

[Plane]

  Just another Woman hater who can't tell Sara Palin from Tina Fey.

   I don't think that the Republican party has or needs a vetting committee to preselect the candidates , letting the people do this is a better idea.

    Donald Trump is mostly a credible candidate because he has more money than the other candidates. This is the same as Hillary Clinton.

     There will be a shakeout, the gauntlet of ridiculous requirement is a sterner test than debating .

[Xavier_Onassis]

One does not have to hate women to realize that Bachmann is a Bible-thumping, deranged nitwit. She is as dead and gone politically as Anita Bryant.

Tina Fey is the funny one. Sarah Palin is the one that solicits campaign funding and never campaigns for anything. She just keeps the yokels' money for her stupid escapades. 

Trump is not a credible anything. But I do hope he gets the nomination, because it would be more fun to watch him lose than any of the others. He throws the best tantrums around.

[Plane]

One does not have to hate women to realize that Bachmann is a Bible-thumping, deranged nitwit. She is as dead and gone politically as Anita Bryant.

Misogyny purely.

    The only part of the description that fits is "she" but isn't that enough?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I have heard this hateful woman speak. I know what she is. She does not belong in government, and her days in govenment are through, and everypone is better off because of it.

[Plane]

I have heard this hateful woman speak. I know what she is. She does not belong in government, and her days in govenment are through, and everypone is better off because of it.

What has she said ?

What do you consider hateful?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Former Congresswoman and certified loon Michele Bachmann has crawled out from under whatever bridge she has been hiding under lately to — you guessed it — attack President Obama. Bachmann used the recent tragedy in which a Germanwings pilot deliberately flew a plane full of people into the French Alps, killing everyone on board, to make a comparison to the President’s talks with Iran. Here is an image of the post, courtesy of Mother Jones:

bachmann FB rant

So, this woman is actually implying — not even just implying, but outright saying — that a sitting President is willing to hand the people of his nation over to a foreign enemy who wants to build nuclear weapons. Not only that, but she is exploiting a recent tragedy that has rocked a nation and world to do it. We always knew that Michele Bachmann was a despicable piece of garbage, but this is a new low, even for her.

[Plane]

  Well....

   I hope she is wrong.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Under no circumstances is President Obama trying to obliterate the American people and himself as the Germanwings pilot did.

This was a very stupid, mean and hateful statement.