Day: July 20, 2015

USA Today:

We had hoped to pay no attention to the Trump sideshow. But that became harder to do when he jumped to the top of the recent USA TODAY/Suffolk and Fox News polls of Republican voters. Then, over the weekend, Trump's big mouth became, not surprisingly, impossible to ignore. [...] Like meteors that flash across the sky and burn out, flawed candidates have a way of self-destructing. That’s one of the few benefits of our endless, grueling presidential campaigns. The classless attack on McCain might or might not turn out to mark the end of Trump's presidential ambitions. This much is assured: The mouth will keep moving, and one day it will open wide and swallow his candidacy whole.

I will be curious to see if Trump's attack on John McCain this Saturday (which by the way was just like the entire Republican Party's attack on John Kerry in 2004, so it is ok to attack a veteran and question his service so long as that veteran is a Democrat) affects his poll standing at all. Right now, Trump still leads.

It had to happen sooner or later. With his sneering and cynical remarks about John McCain's service and captivity in Vietnam, Trump has brought his candidacy to a close. It…