Republicans are becoming the party of name-callers.
Let’s run a little tabulation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a “jackass.”
Trump has called Graham, former Govs. Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney “losers.”
Trump also has said that every official in the U.S. government is “stupid.”
House Speaker John Boehner has chimed in with a “jackass” epithet hurled at Sen. Ted Cruz.
I know I’ve missed some, maybe a lot. But these come to mind immediately.
What’s up here? Are the candidates for the presidency getting under each other’s skin?
I’ve lost count of the bad names Sen. John McCain has tossed at folks who disagree with him. Then again, he’s not running for president this time around.
I’ll give the current GOP bunch this much credit: At least they aren’t tossing out f-bombs, at least not publicly.
It was then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s dubious honorĀ to reveal his potty mouth when, during a Senate floor debate years ago, he told Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy to go f*** himself.
Hey, just think: TheĀ presidential campaign is just getting warmed up.
And of course Hillary compared those who don’t support government-funded, late-term abortions to terrorists. But she gets a pass, I presume because of the D behind her name.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/27/politics/hillary-clinton-republicans-terrorist-groups/
You got me. But actually I was referring to the personal insults between and among public officials/elected leaders. When HRC starts calling Bernie Sanders names, and vice versa, I’ll be sure to take appropriate note of it.
So does she also get a reprieve for saying the GOP field wants to round up illegal immigrants and ship them off in boxcars? You didn’t seem to hold back on Huckabee when he directed a very similar Nazi reference at Obama.
https://youtu.be/l9-TGI5T7J8?t=18s
Similar? You mean when Huck said BHO was leading Israelis to the “oven door” with the Iran nuke deal? I’ll give that some thought. Thanks, as always, for your comments.