[Aria]

Forty years ago, John McCain was a war hero. Since then he's mostly been an asshole. The problem is you can't out-asshole Donald Trump. McCain is in the Superbowl of assholery and hopelessly outmatched. He was doing assholery-as-usual last week, sneering at Trump's supporters as "the crazies". On recent polls that's getting on for 20 per cent of the Republican vote. If 20 per cent of Republican "crazies" take the same umbrage at McCain's sneer that Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Reince Preibus et al have taken on McCain's behalf at Trump's, then Hillary will be President with a Democratic Senate and maybe even House.

My God.....stunningly good!!!

[FredZarguna]

And this:

They're only reinforcing Trump's critique: the GOP is a party of "losers" and "failures" obsessed with peripheral trivia nobody else cares about, while ignoring everything that's killing your future.

Tonight I had to be lectured to by the insufferable Geraldo Rivera and his blonde sidekick Dana Perino who proceeded to surf one towering tsunami of indignation after another, each more laughably preposterous than its predecessor until they arrived at the conclusion that Trump had insulted everyone who ever wore a uniform.

Not really.

He said something dumb but continues to say other things that the Republican base -- the people who actually watch the polls, man the phones, drive the minivans, contribute the money, and try tirelessly to convert their moronic neighbors to some semblance of sanity in a world gone completely mad -- regards as remarkable because the people who benefit from our largess not only won't say it but insist on badmouthing us as knuckle-draggers and racists every chance they get.

I'll happily add the mandatory disclaimer: I'm not a Trump guy. But he sure has made the correct enemies, hasn't he?