Indeed, it is baffling behavior to see a candidate well-known to be a horrible business person, with multiple bankruptcies, and a violent bully with the emotional control of a three-year-old, being put at the head of the Executive Office— to reject or approve the government’s budget, make treaties with other countries, and control the congressional veto. It’s as if supporters of trump have no idea what the USA president’s jobs are.

It is even more baffling to hear him described as “a man who built himself up from nothing” as you will hear people say in coffee shops and restaurants here in West Michigan.

skeptictmac57: “On a related concept, having candidates such as Trump and Cruz in the GOP lead has been very revealing about my friends and acquaintances who embrace their vile rhetoric and shockingly actually believe that those two are worthy and capable of leading the world’s largest economy and superpower. Astonishing and disappointing.”

Indeed, it is baffling behavior to see a candidate well-known to be a horrible business person, with multiple bankruptcies, and a violent bully with the emotional control of a three-year-old, being put at the head of the Executive Office— to reject or approve the government’s budget, make treaties with other countries, and control the congressional veto. It’s as if supporters of trump have no idea what the USA president’s jobs are.

In the USA Congress there are “moral guidelines” that are followed that include being polite to fiends, butchers, cutthroats, and monsters when they are one’s peers. The most vile and treacherous Senator must be called “My Esteemed Colleague.” One of the benefits of a primary / caucusing year is that members of Congress campaigning for the same political office are finally saying what they really think about each other.

That was unkind. Why not luntz it into something everlastingly beautiful?

…because they share a passion for dishonesty.

“King, who voted for John Kasich to send a message to Donald Trump, said he hates Cruz and would take cyanide if he ever won the GOP nomination.”

This isn’t far from what Lindsey Graham had said about choosing between Cruz and Trump:

“It’s like being shot or poisoned.”

Al Franken described Cruz as “The lovechild of Joe McCarthy and Dracula.”

Regarding the Cruz-Kasich alliance to stop Trump:

“ ‘There is no alliance,’ Cruz told reporters on Thursday, acting as if a pact announced by his own campaign days before had never happened.
Minutes later, Kasich strategist John Weaver dispatched a cryptic tweet: ‘I can’t stand liars.’ ”

The Republican campaign started out with encomiums to its “deep bench of talent.” It has degenerated into a screwball comedy that now is breaking new ground as a slapstick tragedy.

(More Cruz:
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/the-most-creative-descriptions-of-ted-cruz-so-far/?_r=0
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/lindsey-graham-endorses-ted-cruz )

Brainstorms: “Republicans would embrace Lucifer as an ideological leader.”

Lucifer is the good Christian god— defender of reason, knowledge, and understanding: the bringer of light and enlightenment (he was created by the second writer of Isaiah, who did not know the planet Venus is a hot rock). The Republican Party is therefore against him. If Cruz *WAS* “Lucifer in the flesh,” I would vote for him in an instant: so would all sane people. Carl Sagan was Lucifer; Isaac Asimov was Lucifer; Neal deGrass Tyson is Lucifer. I would not hesitate to vote for either of them.

The demon god YHWH is the Republican Party’s ideological leader.