The GOP's so-called leadership is gutless.

what could the RNC and top Republicans do at this point? They shouldn’t beg Trump to get on message or “stick to the script.” That’s absurd, an impossibility. Trump cannot distinguish between what is sane-sounding and what is not; he won’t stay off TV. He knows so little that every interview reveals his ignorance, and he’s too dim to realize that he is not doing a good job of hiding it. (It’s clear, for example, that he has no idea who Hugo Chávez was. ) The faint hope that Trump’s children understand their father is seriously unhinged and/or have the ability to do something about it has vanished. (Notice that the kids have been largely scarce during this multi-week meltdown.)

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The RNC leadership knows at this point that Trump is hopeless. The best it can do is signal a shift from excusing Trump to repudiating him. Stop the fruitless task of trying to get him elected and maximize distance from him to keep Republican majorities in the House and Senate (so as to deprive Clinton of a “blank check”). This break was always coming; it’s just happening in August instead of October.

she recognizes reality.

I've never seen any campaign for president this bad.

Of course, many of us couldn't believe they would nominate him. It says something about their collective mentality that they did.

In some respects, it's going to be a slow death to his campaign but rigor mortis is setting in.

All Hillary has to do is shut up and hope no gigantic scandals hit her.

Trump is a whole new level of horrible.

I was demonstrating against Nixon and pulling for McGovern.

Nixon was a better liar than Trump and he knew politics which Trump does not.

McGovern was not an asshole like Trump. He wanted to do good things (like help the poor and end the war) but his party establishment didn't not fall in behind him. He got bush whacked by the mental health of his VP choice, they went after his wife, smeared (swiftboated effectively) by conservative media, Nixon dirty tricks, etc. Numerous companies were convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Nixon, etc.

A whole bunch of dirty crap went on to scuttle McGovern's campaign. In Trump's case, the damage to his campaign is largely self inflicted.

I just meant in terms of electoral slaughter.

took a bunch more racists in congress out with him.

I'm not a great fan of Hillary but I'd just love to see the GOP utterly decimated. Much as I can't stand Trump, he actually could do the country some real good here - get a lot of these ignorant GOP pricks tossed out with the garbage.

With the change in demographics that is coming soon, it would probably end the GOP as we know it. They'd never be able to really recover before the Latinos would tip the balance of power in Texas for example. Hopefully, they could carry that momentum into the 2020 state elections and substantially reduce the gerrymandering with the 2020 census.

And didn't go - in his mind, showing them who's boss.
At least that's what his cheesy how-to book might prescribe.
Give it a day and he'll be back to the same old bombastic nonsense.
His schtick is getting pretty boring, right?

He might pretend to listen, but as soon as he is on to the next stop, it will be the same old b s.

So he can skim off a few more million

founder of ISIS. He deliberately threw out a flame. Because he knew the media'd be all over it. It gave him the opportunity to get attention on trashing his and Hillary's fate in the middle east.

But...getting out of Iraq - which is why lots of people voted for him - was a losing proposition. He did the right thing - but the odds of everything being great when he got out was zero.

when I run across articles like

" Pence has employed many top Koch staffers in his political offices, and vice-versa, while a steady flow of Koch money has filled Pence’s campaign accounts. Indiana, which Pence has governed since 2013, has become a testing ground for many of the network’s conservative policy ideas. “Indiana is one big free market, [and] much like Koch Industries, Mike Pence … picks the right fights,” said pollster Kellyanne Conway in 2014. (Conway is one of many people who has worked for both Pence and Koch-affiliated groups, and she now works for the Trump campaign.) "

"Politico and the Washington Post already both reported Thursday that the Koch network’s dislike of Trump will keep them from spending money on the presidential race even with Pence on the ticket.

That might change, or it might not—but either way the Koch brothers will have a powerful advocate for their ideas in the room. And Trump will have his very own “puppet” of the GOP’s “highly sophisticated killers.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/vice-president-mike-pence-would-be-a-dream-for-the-koch-brothers/

"It wasn't just the politicians. "Kochsperts" spoke at multiple panels and events surrounding the RNC. Jason Beardsley, a Special Advisor to the Koch's Concerned Veterans for America, took to the main stage to advance the privatization of the Veterans Administration. Rachel Campos-Duffy, wife of U.S. Representative Sean Duffy, also took to the stage as the national spokesperson for the Kochs' Latino front group called the Libre Initiative. Penny Nance, President of the Koch-funded Concerned Women for America, was also scheduled to be in attendance."

"The Kochsperts must have had a hand in the creation of the RNC Platform, because the list of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-approved policies in the platform is stunning. The Kochs have been among the biggest backers of ALEC and the member organizations, think tanks, and advocacy groups that aid ALEC for decades. Here are some of the Koch-ALEC policies and priorities reflected in the platform."

Platform policies listed in link http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/07/13121/koch-brothers-fingerprints-can-be-found-all-over-gop-convention

Is Don being a side show / distraction for koch brothers / RNC ground network ?