{"id":22803,"date":"2017-07-02T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2017-07-02T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T02:22:14","slug":"how-about-reprehensible-or-despicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22803","title":{"rendered":"How about ‘reprehensible,’ or ‘despicable’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am growing weary of these tepid responses from Republican officeholders to the tweets that the nation’s top Republican keeps firing into cyberspace.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump’s itchy Twitter finger keeps degrading the presidency. Yes, many Republicans are speaking out. They are angry, embarrassed and dismayed at what the president is doing.<\/p>\n

But get this, from Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of my favorite Republicans and the guy I wanted to see win the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.<\/p>\n

He calls the president’s latest tweet tirade “unacceptable.” He said it is “unfortunate.”<\/p>\n

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said the other day that Trump’s attack on MSNBC broadcaster Mika Brzezinski was “inappropriate.”<\/p>\n

That’s it? There’s been more of that kind of lukewarm language coming from GOP leaders.<\/p>\n

Check out more tweets here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d settle for terms like: reprehensible, despicable, disgraceful, degrading, frightening … you know, language that expresses genuine outrage.<\/p>\n

Will any of it matter? Will that kind of response get to Donald J. Trump, making him think better of his intemperate use of a social medium?<\/p>\n

No. It just would send a signal throughout the country that it might be dawning on Republican leaders that the guy who occupies the presidency is unfit for his high office.<\/p>\n\n

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I am growing weary of these tepid responses from Republican officeholders to the tweets that the nation’s top Republican keeps firing into cyberspace. Donald J. Trump’s itchy Twitter finger keeps degrading the presidency. Yes, many Republicans are speaking out. They are angry, embarrassed and dismayed at what the president is doing. But get this, from … Continue reading How about ‘reprehensible,’ or ‘despicable’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,2537,7169,3155,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-22803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kasich","tag-mika-brzezinski","tag-msnbc","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}