It seems so long ago now.
Donald J. Trump vowed to be the “most presidential” candidate in U.S. history once he secured the Republican Party’s nomination.
He got the GOP nod and what does he do?
He attacks the parents of a slain U.S. Muslim soldier and then declares he cannot support House Speaker Paul Ryan or U.S. Sen. John McCain — two leading Republicans — in their bids for re-election to Congress.
The McCain non-endorsement is weird.
Trump said something the other day about never liking McCain. He disrespected the senator’s record. Gosh, it makes me wonder: He must have really meant it when he said months ago that McCain was a Vietnam War hero “only because he got captured. I like people who weren’t captured, OK?”
Trump calls himself a unifier and has vowed to unite his party.
Hmmm. We’re all still waiting for that to occur.
Ryan and McCain, most interestingly, have endorsed Trump, even though they have disagreed with some statements he has made, most recently his comments that were critical of Khzir and Ghazala Khan, whose son Humayun, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Indeed, President Obama has waded into the GOP feud by wondering out loud why party leaders haven’t rescinded their endorsement of Trump over the hideous statements he has made.
Party unity? A cohesive voice? A more “presidential-sounding” candidate carrying the Republican Party banner?
None of the above is nowhere in sight.