Let's all give Reince Priebus a hand. He has done a great job as RNC Chair.

1. Priebus never understood that Trump had neither the means nor the inclination to run as a third candidate. Spend his own money?! Priebus put the entire party at Trump’s mercy by creating a suicide pact (the pledge) with Trump. Like the JCPOA, once the pledge was in place it was vital to keep it there. Priebus then began a dangerous approach in which appeasement, rationalization and out-and-out water-carrying were the rule.

4. Using national polling — essentially name recognition — to determine the debate lineup was a gross error, giving Trump every incentive to spend his time on TV and presenting him, literally, with center stage. Likewise, the undercard debate should have ended much sooner.

5. Priebus should have spoken out loud and clear when Trump slurred Mexicans, POWs, women, and Muslims. Priebus utterly failed to act as the guardian of the party’s values.

6. The field of debate participants should have narrowed faster and more dramatically, giving candidates time to attack Trump and forcing Trump to come up with cogent answers.

10. Like every other candidate in the last 40 years Trump should have been required to release his tax returns. If he refused, he should have been excluded from the debates, and eventually from the convention. Trump was never required to give up information that was vital to voters’ decision-making. Even worse, to this day Trump is still involved intimately in his business ventures. That’s a horrible conflict of interest.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Republicans painted themselves into a corner and have nobody to blame but themselves..

they've spent the last 8 years marketing fear, hatred, paranoia, racism, bigotry, etc to their easily-manipulated followers - suddenly a person presents himself and markets fear, hatred, paranoia, racism and bigotry and becomes their nominee.. and they have the gall to wonder how that happened.

LooseGoose wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Republicans painted themselves into a corner and have nobody to blame but themselves..

they've spent the last 8 years marketing fear, hatred, paranoia, racism, bigotry, etc to their easily-manipulated followers - suddenly a person presents himself and markets fear, hatred, paranoia, racism and bigotry and becomes their nominee.. and they have the gall to wonder how that happened.

Good thing Libs aren't easily manipulated. Such a fucking joke. I can leave here and go to Kos, TPM, HuffPost and all the parrots will be mouthing the same shit you do. Whatever the hot take of the day is. All trained monkeys.