Whoa, wait. He said what? Not casting any asparagus, but that would be a cite for sour eyes. Bring, please?
Cite.
I believe that’s it. The relevant quote:
If you Google the last sentence of the quote you’ll find buckets of cites.
edit: Figures that a guy named running coach would get there first.
Well, he’s got a whistle.
Not enough. It will fool some people, but not enough
TX, guys. I have this hyper-Christian relative…well, you know how this goes.
I’m seeing something strange here, and not for the first time. I peruse a lot of news feeds to get the same news from different slants, but this is kinda odd, wondering if anybody else sees it…
Which is, I see banners “Trump modifying public statements, cooling his shit jets”. And also “No apparent change in volume of flaming bullshit from Trump”. Anybody else seeing this?
And long term party viability. The smart people in the GOP know that overt racism and misogyny is a demographic nightmare for them that only gets worse every four years.
And the decent, reasonable people in the GOP would reject that even if it were an electoral bonanza! Unanimous, they both would!
As you say, they’ve already screwed the pooch. Best thing they can do now is minimize damage and find their spines.
Instead of trying to rein Trump in and risk further embarrassment - which will almost certainly happen - why not deploy the 10 foot pole now. Give every down-ballot candidate the freedom to disavow Trump (something they’ve already started doing) and leave him out to dry.
He cannot lead a party that is unwilling to follow, can he?
They can’t do it before the convention. Trump is popular enough that if they cut him loose now, he might take his ball and go home, except in this case “the ball” is his legion of very enthusiastic supporters.
The elite may not like him much, but vast swaths of the party are in love with him.
The party is following him, their leaders are only doing so reluctantly if at all. His party wants him, he’s the guy their leaders told them they were but did walk the walk after they were elected, and they believe Trump will do that for them, and even if he doesn’t that’s no different than what they have already.
Trump has gone directly to the base of the Republican party and they have responded. Until he walks out of the convention as the official nominee of the Republican Party he is not going change course. I don’t know if he’ll do anything different then, but he’s not about to provide doubt to the people who got him this far and let the GOP establishment find a way to take the nomination from him. As long as the Republican Party members keep backing Trump poobahs will be afraid to pull anything.
It’s too late. It’s not just the things Trump has said since announcing his candidacy, it’s his whole life on public record. There is not time between now and November for him to walk all that back, not even if he claimed to have finally found Jesus this year or otherwise undergone a fundamental moral conversion.
Apologize for basically his entire campaign to this point? What a terrible idea. Nobody would take it seriously. If they did, he’d disconnect those supporters who were drawn to him in the first place. Trump has not been about placating Mitch McConnell to this point. Why start now?
Apologies are just dances in politics. I don’t want them nor do I expect them. If it’s something you said, then I’ll judge you based on whether you misspoke or accidentally told the truth. If it’s something you did, fix it. If it’s something you didn’t do that you were supposed to do, do it.
Trump is irredeemable at this point. Just let him be Trump and we can all enjoy the show.
Trump’s entire life has been a free pass.
Some wealthy people do raise their children to become responsible adults (Warren Buffett, for example). But some do not. Perhaps they just can’t be bothered. Perhaps they don’t see any reason to make the effort.
Whatever the cause, Trump has never managed to grow out of the Terrible Twos. He’s still there, emotionally.
I think some people are making the argument that the apology isn’t meant to put Trump in better standing - it can’t be done. The apology is to help insulate party leaders (Ryan, McConnell, Preibus, Congressmen et al), who have endorsed him, from the worst of the criticism that (I think) fairly paints them as unprincipled cowards.
That’s absolutely true.
But it’s also true that Trump has no interest whatsoever in making things easier for Ryan, McConnell, et al.
He won’t apologize; apologizing violates his brand.
This. The best the Republicans can hope for (and the worst that Democrats can fear) is that from this point forward Trump starts acting “Presidential.” If he makes the “swing to the center” that normally occurs after the conventions and before November, and if he stops making overtly racist comments, then the failure of the typical voter’s long-term-memory will work for him.
“Oh, that was during the primaries. It doesn’t count. Listen to what he’s saying now.”
Does he have the wisdom? He might. He might actually listen to his strategists and handlers and advisers.
(Anybody wanna give me odds? I figure he won’t go two months without putting his brogans in his pie-hole.)
Meh. They have a perfectly straightforward way of refuting charges of being unprincipled cowards. They just are brave or principled enough to take it.
So an elderly Black woman said I spoke English well. What should have my response have been? “Of course I can you dumb bitch?” Perhaps, I should have screamed her in her face that she was a racist? People need to stop being so sensitive.
Trump never said all Mexicans were rapists. The open border allows many criminals to enter the USA, and that’s a fact.