The Republican Party Is a Dantean Piece of Work

© 2016 Peter Free

 

28 April 2016

 

 

Surprisingly honest

 

Former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, summed it up:

 

 

When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.

 

“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said.

 

“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”

 

The former Speaker said he would not . . . vote for Cruz.

 

© 2016 Ada Statler-Throckmorton, John Boehner talks election, time in office, The Stanford Daily (28 April 2016)

 

 

Now the Dantean twist

 

In spite of former Speaker Boehner’s honest assessment — one apparently shared by most “humans” who have met the malevolent Senator Cruz — the Republican Establishment has been trying its best to gather its errant flocks of caviling sheep behind Lucifer’s Flesh. Supposedly so as to oppose the merely grossly unappealing Donald Trump, who had the unforgivable audacity to say (out loud) that President Bush II was wrong about Iraq.

 

But if someone is both despicable and unworthy of respect, why would you rally behind him?

 

Effective leadership may not require friendly feeling, even in a pseudo-democracy. But it does require respect. Senator Cruz manages neither.

 

 

The moral? — Republican leaders would rather Cruz to the Devil . . .

 

. . . than admit that Donald Trump may have two good all-American points: (1) President George W. Bush made the arguably dumbest and costliest strategic mistake in American history and (2) off-shoring American industry is a bad idea.

 

Nothing like a stampede of stone-headed, warmongering, Lucifer-flocking, elito-plutocratic (purportedly Christian Republican Establishment) nitwits to make us proud.