Charlie Pierce: Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods and the vulgar talking yam

There is only one question worth asking about the sudden alliance between a vulgar talking yam and Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods. It is not a question you need to be born a cynic to ask, although that assuredly helps.

What did it cost him?

I mean, honestly, are we supposed to believe that this was a simple meeting of the minds? (A hard pull anyway, since they're at least one short.) This is a guy who is said to have paid for people to stand and cheer at his announcement being endorsed by a woman who hasn't done anything except for the check in seven years? And the Trump campaign is the gravy train of all gravy trains right now, a self-financed sinecure for the otherwise unemployable that looks like it could keep on rolling all the way to the Republican National Convention and beyond. Why wouldn't she climb aboard? All she had to do was sell out Ted Cruz, for whom she campaigned when he first ran for the Senate, and John McCain, whose heroism Trump already has denigrated. And she gets to take out her vengeance on all those Republicans who were unable to keep her from failing in 2008. What the hell. It beats working for a living. However, let us be fair. Let us explain this marvelous turn of events in her own words.


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