The World Is Disturbed and Confused by the GOP Race

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By John NicholsTwitter
TODAY 11:06 AM

Janesville, Wisconsin— ... While .. both contenders play fast and loose with the facts, there is no reason to doubt the basic premises of what the candidates are saying ... Trump calls Cruz a liar, and portrays the senator from Texas as a sleazy political careerist. Cruz dismisses Trump as an “out of his depth” pretender who is waging a “disgusting” campaign. They’re both right ...

If the Republican race continues on the current path, it is hard to imagine how a party that nominates either Trump or Cruz could survive as anything akin to the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, or even Reagan. The notion that one of them is preferable — as Cruz backers such as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (a failed GOP contender who just endorsed the Texan) suggest — is comic. And the Republicans elites who peddle such fantasies deserve their political fate ...

The crazy campaign that these candidates are running — with Trump celebrating waterboarding and talking up the idea of letting more countries develop nuclear arsenals, and with Cruz talking about targeting Muslim neighborhoods in ways that violate all the basic premises of the Bill of Rights and the American experiment — has .. surprised and bewildered world leaders ...

... Ryan’s friends and neighbors have been protesting Trump this week. But the speaker continues to combine his absurdly mild criticisms of the extreme language of Trump and Cruz with pledges to back whomever is nominated. As such, Ryan is enabling a Republican race that ... has become “an embarrassment to our country” ...

http://www.thenation.com/article/the-rest-of-the-world-is-laughing-at-the-gop-race/

[RKP5637]

1. Over the years the republican party has destroyed itself as it pandered to loons, wackos and

religious fanatics. Way way back, one could respect the republican party as having workable ideas and brokering good solutions. Those days are long long gone. The republican party is obsolete in the 21st century, a party of misfits.