Now We Have To Worry About Copy-Cat Trumps
In a move that sends shivers up, down, and sideways your spine, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee wants all the Republican senatorial candidates to be mini-Trump.
In a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Trump as the party’s presidential nominee, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump’s tactics, issues and approaches — right down to adjusting the way they dress and how they use Twitter.
Oh dear Lord, is their room for that much bombastic ignorance in America or will we need to annex South America to make room?
You can read the whole dumb memo right here.
Dumbing down as a political tactic is not new to Republicans but they are digging plum through to China on this one.
Still, Baker sees limits to being like Trump. He writes that it is prudent for Senate candidates to craft their own political brands distinct from Trump’s and to distance themselves by quickly condemning his more controversial comments, such as “wacky things about women.”
Ya think? Ya really think?
Yesterday Trump said that he wants to execute the families of terrorists. Oh hell, Senate candidates, why stop there? Let’s dig up their grandparents and re-kill ‘um. Kinda give them a booster shot of death just to make sure they aren’t faking it.
The NRSC has a solution. Of sorts.
“It is certain that all GOP candidates will be tied in some way to our nominee, but we need not be tied to him so closely that we have to engage in permanent cleanup or distancing maneuvers,” Baker writes, adding, “Don’t get drawn into every Trump statement and every Trump dust-up.”
So GOP candidates should walk on a string over the Grand Canyon of really bad ideas?
This is going to be such fun.
‘You have to take out their families.” Trump should be jailed for that statement. It’s called incitement. That’s just what the haters with guns need to hear, and the NRC wants everybody to emulate this scam artist? He used to be a joke, now he’s a threat.
1Just show how low the R-Klan has sunk, even worse than being the political wing of the NRA, they are the Ku Klux Klan incarnate.
Seems as though the other Repub primary candidates are already mini-Trumps. They are (except for Carson and Cruz) somewhat less mouthy, but they use the exact same tactics to appeal to the base: fear and hate of anyone who is at all different from the base norm.
And they all love violence, whether it’s guns in private hands or war.
2“Our voters have shown that they want loud demagogic bullies, and, by Saint Ronnie, that’s what we’re going to give them!”
I hope I don’t have to consider emigration again. New Zealand is a long way over there.
3my Trump theory is that he continually says more and more outrageous things……maybe he’s hoping that at last he is over the top and will have to end his campaign…..except no one is actually stopping him. He’s hoping the next awful terrible thing he says will be it! Are you listening folks??
4He says things that should put him on a terrorist watch list and lead him out of the room in cuffs.
“Will not someone stop me?”
Right maryelle! Conservatives have resurrected the KKK to an influential political party. Memo to Republicans, “Pass the hoods and spread the Hate.”
5My personal fave advice from Baker: rather than outright disown Trump’s anti-women statements, candidates should say that their wife or daughter doesn’t like that. Then, presumably, their male listeners will know that the candidate, like any good R, pays no attention to the little women and of COURSE will follow the Donald’s lead.
6I have no words to express how disgusted I am. What the He. . .ck (sorry, Momma) has happened to the Republican party?
7It’s like when the Beverly Hillbillies became successful.
Then we got Green Acres & Petticoat Junction.
OK, I have to admit I’d probably vote for Arnold the Pig even if he ran as a Republican, just so I could see him sit in the Senate. He’s be the smartest guy in the Republican side of the room.
8And this is distinct from our drone warfare practices in that we lie about the outcomes and justify the killings when we are confronted by the evidence with the Orwellian “collateral damage” dismissal.
9Let them keep it up. Their vote totals will become so small a microscope will be necessary for viewing. The number of teabaggers keeps shrinking while the number of brown people grows. So long snacilbupeR! And don’t let the country hit you in the ass on your way out to oblivion!
10This is the best they can come up with? Boy oh boy! All of them need keepers, especially when they are out in public!
11Has the entire Republican Party become GISH GALLOPERS?
12Google is your friend.
One of the more sane Republican members of the Thanksgiving assembly said “If Trump gets the nomination, the RNC should just remind him that he said he wasn’t taking money from anyone and spend what we have down ballot. Hillary is going to win anyway and I don’t want to give Trump a dime.”
13I wish I still had the capacity to be shocked, gobsmacked, etc. I no longer do.
14Is that like digging up the dead and baptising them? When we get rid of the good book, only then will man stop killing in the name of god! Do the zionists work and kill the muslims? xtians doing the jews work? World is older than 3500 years, even 50 years ago we didn’t have the science, today we do?
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