re: #282 lawhawk

They didn’t want to piss off his supporters; they needed the votes, so they wouldn’t want to attack too badly.

Sadly true, as well. But some of those early supporters have woken up, smelled the coffee, and realized Trump is a fucking maniac. I mean, how many times in history have so many conservative newspapers broken with decades of tradition and endorsed a Democrat, and how many times have former Republican presidents all but endorsed a Democrat candidate?

If the GOP had had a little more backbone and a little more sense for long-term strategy, they could have kicked Trump out of the running well before the primary. But as usual, they were going for the short term goal of winning the White House back, no matter who was in the driver’s sear.