I was shocked, shocked I tell you, that the funds Donald Trump is raising for veterans tonight go directly to the Donald J. Trump foundation, which – best I can tell – is not headed by a veteran except, of course, the brutal Fox News Megan Kelly Wars where Trump was the bearer of the white flag.

And, apparently, Trump used a stock photo of a not-soldier.

Jerk.  Complete jerk.

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.

Ohio Republican State Senate Majority Leader Tom Patton has not come a long way, Baby.

He took to the electric radio and had this to say about his Republican primary opponent, who is a 30 year old mother of two.

“The gal that’s running against me is a 30-year-old, you know, mom, mother of two infants,” said Patton, a 62-year-old Republican from Strongsville, in a recent radio interview. “And I don’t know if anybody explained to her we’ve got to spend three nights a week in Columbus. So, how does that work out for you?”

Not to leave one damn doubt that he’s a pig and butthead, he also refers to her as “Sweetie” and “young gal” more than once.

She was mad, of course, and called it “insulting and discriminatory.”

Tom sobered up later on and said his sass “appears to have been misunderstood.”

Sure, Jim Bob, gal is such a misunderstood word.

You know, I get why Tom Patton is a Republican.  I get that.  I do.

I do not, however, understand why his opponent is a Republican.  What self respecting hooter-toter would want to be a member of a party who thinks that’s how women should be treated?

And how do I know that’s what Republicans think?

This.  This is how I know.

Yep.  That’s how I know.

Thanks to Rick for the heads up.

As far as I know, Dr. Ben Carson has never called anybody a Yuge Loser, but he is very generous with using the term “dishonest.”

Ben Carson said his top outside adviser and longtime friend Armstrong Williams is dishonest – a failing he also attributed to political opponents and the media that has covered his campaign.

Uh, shouldn’t that say “former friend”?

“He doesn’t speak all things that are correct. He often speaks without thinking.”

And Carson doesn’t.

In the same article, Carson, who was apparently sleep walking at the time, is quoted as saying, “The trappings of wealth and power mean nothing to me.”

Okay.

Have you seen his house?

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Okay, so last summer the GOP presidential candidates were asked this question:  Name the greatest living president.

Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, and Ted Cruz all answered, “Ronald Reagan.”

I certainly can’t prove this but I have been told that Reagan died in 2004. Until presented with proof otherwise, I have no reason to question that.

So if you’re going to be dumb, you might as well be Olympic dumb.  Ted Cruz is certainly training for it.

Asked by BuzzFeed News to cite his greatest foreign policy influence apart from Reagan, Cruz cited Reagan anyway.

“If you ask the question, the answer is Ronald Reagan,” Cruz said. “You might not like that answer, but that is the truth.”

Uh, does Ted Cruz know anything about Reagan’s foreign policy?  Anything at all?  It’s like the reverse opposite of what Ted Cruz wants.  Reagan wasn’t tight with Israel.  Reagan kowtowed with Saddam Hussein after he gassed his own people.  Reagan traded arms for hostages.

Holy cow.  I know that and I didn’t go to Harvard.

Thanks to Willie for the heads up.

Y’all, I saw this a few minutes ago.

Honey, I will pitch in $25 cash American money of my own if they will do it in a cage match.

Mano a mano, Darlin’.

Thanks to Rodney for the heads up.

Tom DeLay says that his “friends” in the FBI say they are fixing to indict Hillary Clinton.

Of course, he’s been saying this since 1996.

“I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they’re ready to indict,” DeLay said on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Monday.

“They’re ready to recommend an indictment, and they also say that if the attorney general does not indict, they’re going public. So one way or another, either she’s going to be indicted and that process begins, or we try her in the public eye with her campaign,” he told the conservative news outlet. “One way or another, she’s going to have to face these charges.”

Tom DeLay, Constitutional Scholar, appears to be unaware that the FBI does not indict.

He also appears to not understand that Hillary is bulletproof.  Just ask Trey Gowdy.

I think Tom earned an Advanced Gossip Badge when he was in the Browne Scouts.

Thanks to Fenway Fran for the heads up.