An Open Letter To Reince Priebus
By Ann Werner
We keep hearing that you guys are a bit upset
every time Donald Trump opens his mouth and belches out yet another slur
against – oh, take your pick – women, Muslims, a judge with the wrong ancestry,
Mexicans (and face it, the Trumpster means all Hispanics because he is unable
to differentiate), war heroes (living and dead), Gold Star families, disabled
people.
You wring your hands and shake your heads and say “Oh my goodness!
That’s not what the Republican Party stands for!”
Then you turn around and
endorse that jackass for president.
Maybe it’s just me, but doing that really
calls into question what exactly it is that you do stand for.
Reince, on August 12 in Erie, Pennsylvania you went on stage to promote that sad excuse for a human being and said, “Don’t believe the garbage you read. Donald Trump, the Republican Party, all of you – we’re going to put him in the White House and save this country together!”
I’ve got a hot
newsflash for you. Nobody has to “believe the garbage you read” because we’ve
got video. Lots of it. Tons of it.
There’s video of Donald Trump encouraging
people at his rallies to beat up protestors with the promise that he’ll pay
their legal bills for committing assault.
How about that lovely display of
mocking a disabled reporter? That was a real knee slapper.
Or his egregious
conduct regarding a family who has lost their son in Afghanistan – but hey,
they were Muslim, so I guess that’s okay by you.
Or his latest thinly veiled
suggestion that some Neanderthal packing heat might be able to take care of the
Hillary problem. And you just CANNOT understand why he’s slipping in the polls.
So everyone is talking
about a “come to Jesus” moment and an emergency meeting to discuss the problem
of The Donald. I think an article in Red State summed it up nicely:
One feels like this meeting is just the RNC going through the motions so they can’t be blamed when Trump gets beaten like a rented mule in November.”
Here’s the problem.
Donald Trump is an uninformed megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur and he is
NEVER going to win this election.
Why? Because that base you are pandering to
is tiny. He’s been polling about the same among Republican voters ever since he
dispatched the 16 contenders he was up against.
What does that say? I mean, if
he is so great, why haven’t his numbers within his own party grown? Why did not
one former Republican president attend the fear mongering hate-fest that was
the Republican National Convention?
When you’ve got to stoop to Chachi for a
speaker, you know you are on your way out.
Face it Reince – and
the rest of you cowards (I’m talking to you, Paul Ryan) – you have let that
elephant stomp all over you and now you are reaping that whirlwind. There was
once a time when Republicans had at least a modicum of class; a time when they were
actually concerned about the people of this country, and although they and the
Democrats differed on issues, they were able to compromise. Now compromise is a
dirty word, so you go out there in front of your constituents and embrace a
fascist in the hope that it will win or keep a seat here or there.
The sad truth is the
Republican Party is going to suffer because of Donald Trump, and it’s all your
fault for letting it happen.
It’s all your fault for being so damned obstinate
during the entirety of the Obama presidency and trying to pin the mistakes (and
that’s a VERY kind way of putting it) of the Bush-Cheney administration on the
guy who has been cleaning up their mess since taking office in January 2009.
It’s all your fault for remaining silent during the whole birther thing. It’s
all your fault for allowing things to get so out of hand that now you can’t
control the monster you created.
Now that I’ve stated
the obvious, I’m going to do something I never thought I’d do. I’m going to
give you some heartfelt advice.
You guys need to grow a spine. Each and every
one of you. You’ve got to stand up and say that Donald Trump is not good for
the GOP, he’s not good for the country, he’s not good for the people in it, and
he’s not good for the world.
Then, maybe you will begin to earn back some of
the trust you have betrayed by being such simpering, fawning Casper
Milquetoasts in the face of a blustering bully. People like people who stand up
to bullies. You ought to try it for a change. It might actually feel good.
Ann Werner is the
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