Day: December 8, 2015

Q: There is a voter in western Sussex that he might offend. A: Why is John Carney so worried about calling out Trump for his beyond the pale fascism?

House Speaker Paul Ryan broke from his habit of avoiding comment on the 2016 presidential race to strongly condemn Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigration to the US during Tuesday’s House GOP press conference. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly it's not what this country stands for," Ryan said.

Harry Enten notes that the GOP establishment may need religious voters to stop Donald Trump from marching to the Republican presidential nomination. And to that end, they will have to embrace a man they despise: Ted Cruz. “To beat Trump, the establishment may have to defeat him in Iowa, but recently, the Iowa caucuses have been unwelcoming to establishment-approved candidates. Still, there’s a way to square that circle. The GOP establishment doesn’t need to win Iowa — it just needs Trump to lose. And the establishment may have to rely on an old frenemy to make that happen: born-again and evangelical Christians.” Cruz is leading Iowa now because he has taken away evangelical Christians from Ben Carson. It is time for the Establishment to embrace Ted Cruz. Hahahaha. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

“I think this whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in.” — Dick Cheney, quoted by the Washington Examiner, on Donald Trump’s call for banning Muslims from entering the United States. The Republican Party has reached a point with Donald Trump where they have to repudiate him such that he is banned from all Republican primary ballots and refused nomination or, each and every Republican alive today is branded with his politics, that of fascism. Your choice, Charlie Copeland. Colin Bonini. Greg Lavelle. Mike Castle. If you all have any decency left, you will condemn him and kick him out of the party, and refuse to put his name on the Delaware GOP ballot. Or, you're Nazis.