And this is worthy of posting why, exactly?

> And this is worthy of posting why, exactly?

I can think of a number of reasons, actually. Here's one from low on a long list:

18.) Appropriate Ridicule

This is newsworthy because Donald Trump is a leading candidate for President and the public should know what kind of person they are voting for.

Donald Trump is not alone - there are many who believe this insanity.

Michael Savage (real name - Weiner), Alex Jones of Infowars/Breitbart infamy, etc.., yes all the crazies just waiting for you on AM talk radio. Levine will be next, Limbaugh after that.

Some are even threatening civil war if Obama succeeds in his constitutionally mandated job of nominating a supreme court justice.

Alex Jones: “The Republicans better block this nomination,” he said, “because if they get one more Supreme Court person in there, they’re going to trump every piece of Bill of Rights and Constitution and they’re going to get that physical civil war they want.”

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“going to get that physical civil war they want.”
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So-called patriots, taking up arms against our great country and our great constitution. Like the traitors who fired on our country in the Civil War.

This is today's GOP. Their base, and their leaders, are so far out over the line.

Don't believe me - believe them. They say it. Listen.

They are not normal. A real person would have scolded The Crazy.

Marco, otoh, laughs. Web Link

So pretzeldential.

"Sen. Marco Rubio (Crazy-Fla.) responded to a man who shouted "waterboard Hillary!" at a presidential campaign event Tuesday by appearing to jokingly suggest that he didn't hear what was said and laughing off the remark."

Good God man, stand up and do the right thing! You want to be leader of the Free World.

But laugh with them? At least McCain had the stug to stand up and grab the mic away from a crazy in 2008. John McCain, the last sane conservative?

All this while Jeb! tweets a pic of his gun to dogwhistle at the lowest common denomiator level. At least he got the mocking he richly deserves from normal, right-thinking folk Web Link

Every day they show us how crazy their followers are and how low they will stoop.


Don't believe me - believe them. They say it. Listen.


I'm outta here - pay attention, folks. Please.

Trump is operating on the basis of any publicity being good publicity. So whatever the occasion, he trumpets the most outrageous and potentially offensive interpretation. He knows what grabs headlines. He's saving millions of dollars in campaign money with his behavior, and the more ridiculous his story, the more money he saves.

We may debate his qualifications for president, but he's brilliant at working the publicity mill.

Most folk don't listen to the loons because it's too scary.

Just like we don't listen to the insane rant of one of those homeless who need help.

list maker:

in case you didn't know, the whackos on the far right consider McCain a RINO, not a true conservative. The greatest sin a Republican can commit, in their minds, is one that is willing to compromise.

"Like the traitors who fired on our country in the Civil War".

Those traitors you were referring to were Democrats. The Republican Party was the party of the Abolitionists and the Democratic Party was the party of Slavery.

By the way I agree that the people who fired on our country during the civil war were indeed traitors. Also the Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The KKK's main purposes were to brutalize, rape, sodomize, torture and murder African Americans and to violently resist the Republican Party’s Reconstruction in the deep south.

neither party is the party they used to be. The democratic party USED to be the party of the south, then Johnson signed the equal rights act and the south became republican. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Bottom line, politicians are out for no one but themselves. Remember that next time you go to the ballot box.

Trump and the far right south are crazy.

"Trump and the far right south are crazy"

Blinding flash of the obvious.

Just wait!

For the moment it's 'No-show' Rubio and we can all laugh, but that's soon to be 'Narco' Rubio.....

The video surfaces of Trump saying the Iraq War was stupid, and going to be too expensive.

That makes him the only GOP candidate to be the right side of the war. That makes the rest of the GOP into chickenhawks completely unqualified to lead our country, at least o any military decision.

Trump as the only 'realist' on the right - amazing.

LuLoon -- "That makes him the only GOP candidate to be the right side of the war."

So? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day -- which is more than one can say for The Donald...

Donald is so looney he actually ends up on the left on some things, kinda like rand paul.

Worst set of candidates ever. Started with 18. Down to 7 losers.

Trump is Brilliant. I don't think he would be a good president and that may not be his intention anyway.

But, he is working his audience (the media, the American populace) and he is winning because he is making people talk in a way that has never been done before.

I can't see him winning, but for as long as he goes on with the practice of stating things that nobody else will, he is going to continue making headlines and getting us all talking in a way we wouldn't be doing so if it wasn't for him.

I hope he continues to make people think, talk and pay attention. I also hope (and expect) him not to win. Unfortunately, my first choice is no longer in.

Bush be gone.

Buh-bye! No more bushes for me!

That was an amazingly weak field. Now down to some whackos and one who appears moderate by comparison - yet who is anti-middle class.

I want Mitt back!

"I want Mitt back!"

Wow! Never thought I would ever hear that!

Even Tricky Dick, Gingrich, or Bush 1 would be preferable to these rascals as Republicans go.....

Funny, me neither. Yet,who is a better choice on policy or to beat Hillary?

Honestly, I don't think it makes a difference. The GOP brand has been utterly destroyed. The final nail in the coffin was all the crazies defending George George W Bush after Trump said tge war was a mistake and they lied about WMD.

Republicans need either a truth and reconciliation event about Bush, or start a new party.

I don't think Republicans can win nationally as is.

Sorry, but Republicans can win nationally. We in California live in a bubble. The rest of the country is not like us. They don't think the same way. They are no where near as progressive as we are. I urge you to go spend a little time in the "fly over states." These folks are FAR more conservative than even a California conservative. These people will vote for the likes of Trump or, god forbid, Cruz. This is very important. We must fight these fascist maniacs. This is coming from a solid middle of the road person. The right wing are a bunch of wackos.

The scariest thing is that a third party candidate will enter the ring. They will draw votes from one party or the other, depending on their persuasion. This will leave us with one far left or far right bozo. Neither is a pretty picture.

Do we recognize the person?


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"but Republicans can win nationally" nah.....

Last time they won was in a time of war - 2004. Before that, Bush lost the popular vote by half a mill. Since then, landslide losses, and to an African American, named Hussein, no less.

2012 - 5 million votes, a gazillion electoral votes
2008 - 5 mill? iirc
2004 - war, post 9/11
2000 - GOP lost pop vote by half a million, iirc

96.

92.

Last win? 1988

The GOP can only win house majorities in highly gerrymandered scenarios. Senate flops back to blue this year (GOP defends 24 seats vs 11 dem.)

America is tired of chickenhawks. And crazies. That's you, Rafael Cruz.

You.

yesterday, Robert Reich named the 7 GOP tribes that won't get along... last group? Trumpoids - white working class disaffected by the GOP

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The Death of the Republican Party
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization.

It died in 2016. RIP.

It has been replaced by warring tribes:

Evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science.

Libertarians opposed to any government constraint on private behavior.

Market fundamentalists convinced the “free market” can do no wrong.

Corporate and Wall Street titans seeking bailouts, subsidies, special tax loopholes, and other forms of crony capitalism.

Billionaires craving even more of the nation’s wealth than they already own.

And white working-class Trumpoids who love Donald. and are becoming convinced the greatest threats to their well being are Muslims, blacks, and Mexicans.

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Kasich being forced out to have the beltway coalesce around Rubio who is an empty suit.

And two insane fools in Cruz and Trump.

Wow.

@Broadway Bill: Ain't politics grand???

One thing they all agree on - Cruz is a weasel. Lies, cheats, bends and breaks the rules. Rubio Trump and Carson have had it with this guy.

Seems that he is really disliked by his senate peers as well.

"Seems that he is really disliked by his senate peers as well."

Not to mention he's flat out NUTS

Now the Beltway Elite are trying to tell Republicans they can control Donald Trump:

"Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has begun stating in private meetings that the party has sway over its at times unwelcome front-runner because it has tools Trump will need to use to win a general election — voter data and field, digital and media operations that a nominee typically inherits from the party infrastructure.

Dangling access to these resources, Priebus thinks he can help steer Trump toward partywide policy goals and away from the inflammatory rhetoric that Republican officials see as divisive and dangerous, especially outside of the primary, according to two Republican sources who have spoken with the RNC chairman." Web Link

These bozo's have been 100% wrong about Trump (and the entirety of the 2016 race, for that matter) and now they see how they can control him by withholding an email list?

Oh, yeah, that'll work.

That'll show him who his betters are.... how's it been going so far?

The RNC and Prince Rhebus are screwed at the national level. When Trump wins the nomination, the Dems take over for another 8 years and the GOP becomes a state level party trying to control statehouses in order to gerrymander congressional seats.

Trump loses the senate also.

A disaster.

As said above - brought upon themselves.

This is the day. Cruz wins his home state barely (less than 50%.

Rubio wins squat.

Trump cleans up.

And the GOP cringes, and wonders how their Southern Strategy went so wrong.


It seemed to work for Nixon, after all.

There are no sane republican politicians left. Been years since I heard one.

The republican debates will drive away any voters with an IQ over 90.

Assembly candidate (and Menlo Park Councilmember) Peter Otaki reportedly is registered as a Republican. What does Otaki think about Trump and the other candidates for President? Do tell Otaki.

That Peter Ohtaki would be a great Assemblyman advocating for the best interests of the voters residing in AD24

The Scalia conspiracy theory is nothing compared to Trump's current penchant for 1930's style rallies where he has attendees swear an oath while thrusting their right arms in the air.

Politico: "Donald Trump’s rally here began with the candidate asking all attendees to raise their hands and take an oath to vote for him, while extended barriers cordoned off the press and plainclothes private intelligence officers scoured the crowd for protestors."

Folks: we can't say we were just good Germans and didn't see this coming until it was too late.

We all see it. Plain as day. The rest of the world sees it and is scared.

Your brown shirt will be delivered shortly. It goes well with the red ball cap.

Ladies and gentlemen: the new LEADER of the GOP...

Donald J. Trump
- Speaker of all things Conservative
- Party Elder
- Nominee of the Grand Ol' Party

One may now applaud and salute the new leader of the GOP.
His preferred salute is the raising of your right arm.

Israeli reaction Web Link

excerpt "Heil Trump!" happened at a rally today. How did we Nazi this coming?"

Where are bay Area Republicans with their condemnation?

Or have they given in and decided to vote for this very dangerous reality show buffoon?

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"Where are bay Area Republicans with their condemnation?"

What bay area republicans? Do any actually exist?

"What bay area republicans? Do any actually exist?"

Nice try, Menlo (Non-)Voter. You, of all people, should know better.

stop:

I happen to be a registered independent. I haven't missed an election since 1976. How about you?

It's been my experience in the Bay Area that those most vociferous about being Independent vote 80/20 (or much more) with the R's. They're just too embarrassed to have an R after their name, which is more than understandable these days.


re: "do any (R's) exist?" Web Link

One imagines you know a number of these names, if not actually voted for them at some point; from the SMGOP site:

Supervisorial District 3
John McDowell (San Carlos), Second Vice Chair

Supervisorial District 4
Lucy Calder (Menlo Park)
Hank Lawrence (Menlo Park), District Chair
Anne Marie McCauley (Menlo Park)
Supervisorial District 5

Ex Officio
Robin Chew (Redwood City)
Mark Gilham (Redwood City)
Diane Gabl (Palo Alto)
Greg Conlon (Atherton)
Rick Ciradella (Menlo Park)

Alternates
Matt Grocott (San Carlos)
John Boyle (Menlo Park), Third Vice Chair
John Gillespie (Menlo Park)
Carole Robinson (Belmont)
Andy Barkett (Redwood City)
Hank Scherf (Menlo Park)
Virginia Chang-Kiraly (Menlo Park)


Wonder how they feel about the presumptive GOP nominee? Ashamed, yet still voting for him?


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Patriots.

amazing:

in my case you would be wrong.

obviously you missed that I was being facetious.