A Gaffe a Day Keeps GOP at Bay

Tip top Tuesday to you, Friends,

Conservative columnist George Will said the other day that Donald Trump's attack on a Gold Star family could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

The straw itself couldn't break the back of the camel, but after piling straw upon straw, this will be the final one that makes the sum of the straws too much for the beast to bear.

It's a very old adage, but one that means nothing to the GOP nominee. He keeps piling on offenses, day after day, defying the law of gravity in how little damage each seemingly fatal gaffe costs him.

When he declared that his fellow Republican, Senator John McCain, wasn't really a Vietnam war hero because he'd been captured, the media said Trump was through.

Here we are are nearly a year later. Trump has beaten 16 opponents, and last week managed to insult war heroes even more egregiously. He took a shot at the parents of a combat hero killed in action.

This would normally be beyond the pale for any American who wanted to be this country's president, That candidate would be repudiated by his party and likely be shown the exit.

But Trump must be some sort of Svengali with some magical sway, judging by the way the GOP leadership repudiates his actions but still endorses him.

Yeah. I'm feeling this way too about the two major party nominees.

There are signs, though, that George Will was absolutely right. As I said a few days ago, the party will soon throw Trump under the bus. And I stand by it.

Party leaders are noticeably pulling back from their nominee. Senator McCain issued a statement strongly condemning The Donald's disrespect of the Khizr Khan family.

He stopped just short of withdrawing his endorsement of Trump, and so did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

That will happen after the nominee's next big gaffe, which will certainly occur within the next few days if not sooner.

In the midst of Trump's fiasco, Hillary Clinton was trying to float another big lie about her email debacle.

Hillary tried to sell us on interpreting what FBI Director James Comey said about her, precisely the opposite way to what he actually said.

She said that he said that she told the truth. Everyone else heard Comey say that Hillary told the FBI the truth, but he couldn't comment on what she told the public. And that, as we all know, was a pack of lies.

In fact, Hillary got four Pinnochio's from The Washington Post yesterday for the whopper she continues to spin, which would mostly exonerate her for having a clandestine email server.

She's a lot like her presidential opponent--unable to simply apologize for a mistake and move on.

I hate to say it again, but neither nominee should be president.

I do like the Democratic party platform, but I'm not sure I can trust Hillary to back it.