The silence of the lambs: Why sheepish GOP leaders have been conspicuously quiet since Donald Trump’

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by Gary LeGum at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/29/the-silence-of-the-lambs-why-sheepish-gop-leaders-have-been-conspicuously-quiet-since-donald-trumps-debate-debacle/

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Still, it was possible to read in the narrowing polling gap between Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton the possibility that Republicans who had spent months declaring themselves #NeverTrump were now coming home to the GOP. Prominent elected officials like Sen. Marco Rubio, who just a few months nearly broke down in tears over Trump’s success, and radio talk-show host Mark Levin, among others, decided the mogul was the lesser of two evils after all and gave him their grudging endorsements.

For crying out loud, even Ted Cruz endorsed Trump, after the latter had derided Cruz’s wife’s attractiveness and suggested the Texas senator’s father might have been an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald. The endorsement was likely a craven career move by Cruz more than it was a sign of newfound warmth towards his party’s nominee. But considering his antics on the stage of the Republican National Convention two months ago, this might as well have been the Camp David accords.

Then came Monday night, and a Trump performance that ranked as likely the worst ever turned in by a major party nominee in a presidential debate. All of a sudden, you could not find anyone besides Rush Limbaugh and congressional back benchers like Marsha Blackburn to defend the GOP’s standard bearer.

For example, RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been missing in action since Monday. Ahead of the debate he tried his hardest to put a positive face on the pile of rotted orange peels in a suit that his party had nominated by suggesting that 14 season finales of Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” had prepared him for the debate. Priebus’ Twitter feed, which he has regularly used to slam Clinton, has been almost entirely silent.


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[NastyRiffraff]

1. Actually, this sounds about right:

For example, RNC chairman Reince Priebus has been missing in action since Monday. Ahead of the debate he tried his hardest to put a positive face on the pile of rotted orange peels in a suit that his party had nominated by suggesting that 14 season finales of Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice” had prepared him for the debate. Priebus’ Twitter feed, which he has regularly used to slam Clinton, has been almost entirely silent.
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He relied on a reality show to prepare him for the debate, and it certainly showed!

Meanwhile, in Trumpworld (aka "Alternate Reality&quot , Trump's senior Communication Advisor Jason Miller insisted that Trump won the debate, as proven by several online polls. Even Chuck Todd was incredulous, pointing out that online polls were "garbage." Jason stuck to his guns, or rather hung by his toenails onto myth.

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3. They go silent so the reality of it does not stick in people's minds. The GOP and GOPers on the

internet went silent on Hillary for weeks after she creamed the GOP Benghazi Committee members during 11 hours straight of testimony in November last year.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. World Series game winners do not criticize the umpire or the sound the bat makes.

Everybody knows it's dead, Jim.

[monmouth4]

5. Hillary gave an excellent response to that.n/t

[tanyev]

4. Uh-oh. Has Reince finally gone for the Bailey's and Lucky Charms?

They're magically delic--*thud*