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babylonsister

(171,068 posts) Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:57 PM Feb 2016

Eugene Robinson: The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-schoolyard-scuffle/2016/02/29/8c1767f0-df1a-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html?postshare=2491456800087755&tid=ss_tw

The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show

By Eugene Robinson
Opinion writer
February 29 at 7:30 PM

The race for the Republican presidential nomination couldn’t possibly get any more bizarre, appalling, puerile, embarrassing, self-destructive or —

Hold on, this just in: It did.

When have we ever seen such a shameful and low-minded spectacle? Comparison to the seriousness and decorum of an elementary school playground is an insult to second-graders. What this campaign needs is a timeout chair, or perhaps a stout wooden ruler for rapping knuckles.

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Trash-talking, alliances, conspiracies, betrayals — this whole campaign has become a reality-television show. The problem is that it’s on every single channel.

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Eugene Robinson: The GOP race has become an embarrassing reality-television show (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2016 OP

Eugene Robinson is a gem. panader0 Mar 2016 #1

Except for their running to be leaders of the free world. onecaliberal Mar 2016 #2

K&R... spanone Mar 2016 #3

GOP politics is the Jerry Springer show It took 25 years for them to get with the program but Monk06 Mar 2016 #4

Low-minded sums it up perfectly. 3catwoman3 Mar 2016 #5

Must read malaise Mar 2016 #6

panader0

(25,816 posts)

1. Eugene Robinson is a gem.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:09 AM

Mar 2016

"A shameful and low minded spectacle" indeed.

onecaliberal

(32,861 posts)

2. Except for their running to be leaders of the free world.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:17 AM

Mar 2016

spanone

(135,843 posts)

3. K&R...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 12:19 AM

Mar 2016

Monk06

(7,675 posts)

4. GOP politics is the Jerry Springer show It took 25 years for them to get with the program but

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:50 AM

Mar 2016

this election they did it

3catwoman3

(24,005 posts)

5. Low-minded sums it up perfectly.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:53 AM

Mar 2016

Every time I hear a commentator talk about a candidate doing something to "appeal to his base," I say to myself that base also sums that up perfectly - appealing to the baser instincts of the human species.

malaise

(269,026 posts)

6. Must read

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 07:49 AM

Mar 2016

K & R

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