Trump's Complete Unfitness May Finally Be Sinking In...

[Econoline]

The one thing you seem to keep missing is the extent to which all the individual states are separate from, and different from, each other.

It's the Federalism thing he never seems to get...

Exactly.

[Scooter]

It's the way that the United States has chosen to organize its federalism. There are a lot of federations in the world - Canada, Australia, Germany and India among them - and to my knowledge there is no other one of any size that devolves the responsibility for the election of federal offices to its states/provinces. And your national party committees have followed suit by devolving the responsibility for the nomination of candidates for those offices to the state parties. The result is a patchwork of rules and processes for things like redistricting, voter eligibility and ID requirements, access to polling stations, recounts, etc. that make a mockery of the notion that all citizens have equal voting rights. Other federations impose uniform rules for federal elections, which of course do not exist in the U.S., which instead conducts elections for federal offices in each state. Don't blame federalism for the resulting mess; nothing says it had to be done that way.

[Gob]

What he said.

[Lord Jim]

After a fourth or more ballot, John Boehner has been suggesting Paul Ryan as the nominee...

To get even, Paul Ryan should suggest John Bohener as the nominee...

[Gob]

Nominate me. I can't be worse than Trump surely?

[Bicycle Bill]

Nominate me. I can't be worse than Trump surely?

Other than the fact that you're not an American citizen so you can't be POTUS it's not the worst idea I've heard.
Sometimes I think we should give the entire country back to the British and beg their forgiveness for that little unpleasantness back in 1776.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Nominate me. I can't be worse than Trump surely?

Oh, I don't know...

Stroppygob...

Donald Trump....

Toss up really...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Tossers, anyway

[Gob]

OOoh! Get her!!!

[rubato]

Hey, I didn't say it.

http://theweek.com/articles/616407/gop- ... petent-mob

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Which means that millions of Republican voters — not a majority, but a solid plurality — continue to want Donald Trump to be their party's nominee for president. How could that possibly be — after the mess of the past week, but also after endless months of insults; racial, ethnic, and religious taunts and threats; blatantly ignorant statements about policy (foreign and domestic); and a continual flood of transparent lies?
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But so does this: Roughly 40 percent of the GOP base is voting out of a poisonous mixture of ignorance and spite. They are behaving like a mob. And thus their political choice deserves no deference or respect whatsoever.

This judgment has nothing to do with ideology. I disagree with the mainstream Republican agenda, but it represent a legitimate position on our politics. The same holds for the mainstream Democratic agenda, as well as for Bernie Sanders' left-wing insurgency against the Democratic establishment and its preferred nominee for president (Hillary Clinton).

This isn't even about the cluster of ideas that Trump is running on: immigration restrictions, protectionism, and so forth. A responsible, informed candidate could run for president on an agenda like that without it posing a threat to the country in the way that Trump's candidacy clearly does.

The problem is that Donald Trump, as an individual, is manifestly, indisputably unqualified to be president. Yes, as nearly everyone recognizes, he's a demagogue, which should be bad enough. But he's also wildly inconsistent, petulant, and vindictive, and he obviously delights in encouraging (and in the case of his campaign manager's alleged behavior, rewarding) violence.