text: Politics Democrats,Hillary Clinton,Politics,Republicans,Trump The Stupid Party Keeps Getting Stupider - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
  Trump as we all know, because we've heard it repeated by the media one thousand times, questioned the impartiality of a federal judge because he is of Mexican descent. Dumb. Even indefensible.
  But Hillary a few weeks earlier said that she was going to put every coal miner in America out of a job. Messing with people's livelihoods is arrogant and smug beyond belief. Arguably, ‎much worse than anything Trump has said.
  Politicians often say stupid things. I'm old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan called ketchup a vegetable. Bill Clinton became a laughing stock when he said in 1992 that he "didn't inhale."
  This wasn't the first time Republicans have played into the hands of the left. When Trump was absurdly charged with not properly denouncing a supporter who is a racial supremacist, even many conservatives piled on to the leftist attacks. He wasn't sufficiently apologetic for the liberal media, and some Republicans like the forgotten, but not gone Mitt Romney nearly called him a member of the Ku Klux Klan. This is Romney's roadmap back to political relevance.
  All of this is self-defeating on a thousand levels. First, don't these lame-brained Republicans get it that they hang together or they hang separately? Tearing down Trump will mean thousands of political casualties down ticket. Democrats do get this.
  Second, since when do we judge our candidates based on the left's warped criteria? Republicans seem to suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome of seeking the affection of their captors.
  Finally, the GOP members of Congress would be wise to stop with the holier than thou strategy. These are the people who've blown a hole in the budget as big as Texas and so how are they morally superior? These are the people that can't even defund the cronyista Export-Import Bank.
  Instead, why don't Republicans ever try to seize the offensive on the race card? Want to divide and conquer the left? Take a school choice agenda into the inner city and tell poor minority parents that the GOP is offering their kids better schools? Promise to bring safety, jobs, and development to their neighborhoods. Promise to stop putting young inner city blacks in jail for drug use.
  The greatest victims of Barack Obama's litany of economic failures have been blacks and Hispanics. Obama's no racist, but the impact of his policies is. Does it really matter that he means well? Republicans/Trump can win millions of votes of economically-left-behind minorities in record numbers this year. But that won't happen by genuflecting to the leftwing civil rights leadership. And it won't happen if the GOP's leadership is calling their flag bearer a racist.