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.