{"id":10237,"date":"2015-07-20T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10237"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:32:11","slug":"politics-of-personal-destruction-bites-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10237","title":{"rendered":"Politics of ‘personal destruction’ bites the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This comes from Bill Press, a noted Democratic Party loyalist, TV commentator, author, pundit and partisan gadfly.<\/p>\n

He posted this on his Facebook feed today.<\/p>\n

“You might say: ‘What goes around, comes around.’<\/em><\/p>\n

“In 2004, it was OK for Republicans to attack war hero John Kerry. But suddenly in 2015, it\u2019s not OK for another Republican to attack war hero John McCain. I\u2019m sorry. That doesn\u2019t work. To murder yet another aphorism: \u201cWhat\u2019s good for the goose is good for the gander.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Don\u2019t get me wrong. I think Donald Trump\u2019s comments about John McCain are disgusting. I like McCain. I believe he\u2019s the real thing: a genuine American war hero, who deserves the respect and gratitude of every American, no matter what you think of his politics.<\/em><\/p>\n

“But Republicans can\u2019t have it both ways. They can\u2019t practice one kind of politics \u2013 and then whine and moan when somebody plays the same kind of politics against them.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Two lessons to be learned here. First, the Republican Party should do what I suggested a month ago: Disown Donald Trump and throw him out of the party.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Two, Republicans should stick to the issues and stop playing the politics of personal destruction. Because, eventually, it\u2019ll turn around and bite you in the ass. It just did.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll add only this.<\/p>\n

John Kerry and John McCain happen to be close friends. Their Vietnam War combat experience is their common bond. They worked together in the U.S. Senate to help establish diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

And Kerry, who’s now secretary of state, has strongly condemned the comments that Trump made about his friend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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