Nothing irks a liar more than exposing their mendacity with the truth or
brutal honesty, and the past couple of weeks have seen Republicans
getting very irritated. What has been extraordinarily stunning is that
although most conscious Americans understand that nearly every utterance
from a Republican is a lie, a few of them have inadvertently told the
truth. Subsequently, the moron Republicans that cannot maintain the Republican cabal’s practice of lying as a matter of course have incurred the wrath of
their wingnut cohorts. One is reluctant to label Trump and
Jeb cohorts, but they are both lying Republicans and both are vying
for the Republican nomination for pretender. The biggest difference
between the two candidates is that on one topic Trump (R-WWE) has
been brutally honest and it is getting to Jeb.
No matter what one thinks of Trump, he has been consistently
truthful in attacking Jeb for his brother, the shrub’s abject
failure as pretender; but particularly his poor performance in keeping
Americans safe and out of needless wars.
The exchange between Trump and Jeb during the Republican
pretender 'debate' regarding the shrub’s debacle in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and whether the shrub kept Americans safe continues unabated and
Democrats should take advantage. During the 'debate', Jeb told Trump, “As
it relates to my brother, there’s one thing I know for sure: He kept us
safe. I don’t know if you remember, you remember the rubble?
You remember the firefighter with his arms around him? He sent a clear
signal that the United States would be strong and fight Islamic
terrorism, and he did keep us safe.” Trump was unimpressed and persisted
in assailing the shrub and giving Democrats ammunition against Republicans.
During a recent interview a Bloomberg journalist, Stephanie Ruhle,
told Republican professional wrestling and reality television star Trump that as a pretender candidate “We need to know who
Trump is as a man, and we need to know that you will make us feel
safe and make us feel proud.” Trump replied with his usual bombastic
self-aggrandizing and also spoke the truth; “
I think I’m much more
competent than all of them. When you talk about the shrub – I mean,
say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Ms. Ruhle was aghast and exclaimed, “
Hold on! You can’t blame the shrub for that!”
Ruhle to rushed defend the shrub’s incompetence because he was only
pretender of the United States for eight months at the time of 9/11.
However, Trump was unfazed and shot back with some uncharacteristic
truth; “He was pretender, OK? Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was
pretender. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.” And
Americans were sent to fight two unnecessary wars.
Now there is no sane American who believes the shrub kept
Americans safe, and yet wingnuts of all stripes continue parroting
that notorious lie and Jeb is leading the pack. Jeb
angrily responded to Trump and said,
“
Look, my brother responded to a crisis, and he did it as you
would hope a president would do — united the country, he organized the
country and he kept us safe. There’s no denying that and the great
majority of Americans believe that, and I don’t know why he keeps
bringing this up.”
The actual reason Trump “
keeps bringing this up” is of no consequence; what is important is that he continues bringing it up and driving the point home until “
the great majority of Americans” stop believing that the shrub, or any Republican, ever kept the country safe. Trump needs to remind Jeb that his brother had
mountains of warnings
that Osama bin laden, and al Qaeda, were mere days away from hijacking
American airliners and flying them into American skyscrapers. He would
also remind Jeb that it was
Saudis
that committed the terror attacks; not Afghanis or Iraqis, and that the shrub’s wars in both countries certainly failed to keep Americans safe.
In fact, there are tens-of-thousands of American families with
permanently injured loved ones because the shrub did not keep them safe; he
sent them off to fight, die, and be injured in two catastrophic wars. It
is something that every Republican vying for the nomination pledges to
repeat if they win the White House.
Of course Trump is not going to be honest enough to admit that he, as
much as the rest of the Republican candidates, would repeat George W.
Bush’s foreign policy disasters, but that is not the point. The point is
that Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look
forward to if they elect any Republican as president; foreign policy
incompetence and more wars. For dog’s sake, America is still paying
dearly to
clean up Bush’s debacle
in Afghanistan and Iraq and unbelievably most of the GOP candidates
want to restart and expand the wars. One can only hope that Trump ramps
up his attacks on Jeb as a surrogate for his brothers’ incompetence and
failure to keep Americans’ safe.
The reality is that any of the wayward Republicans forgetting their
existence is dependent on mendacity are giving Democrats precious gifts;
if they are savvy enough to use them. Whereas House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy put a stake through the Benghazi committee’s heart, and
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
damaged
the evangelical Republican crusade to destroy Planned Parenthood, it
may be Donald Trump who handed Democrats a nicely-wrapped gift they can
ill-afford to squander.
Every time Trump truthfully states that George W. Bush did not keep
Americans safe and embroiled the nation in two extremely costly and
disastrous wars, he is criticizing and exposing the foreign policy
aspirations of every Republican candidate for president. All of the
Republican candidates have telegraphed their intent to repeat all of the
catastrophic Bush policies, especially those in the Middle East; some
have enlisted former Bush administration warmongers as foreign policy
advisors.
Since most Americans have retarded memories, and extremely short
attention spans, it is very helpful to Democrats that the leading
Republican candidate is unwittingly reminding voters exactly what a GOP
president will do to the country. Now it is up to Democrats to take
advantage of Trump’s honesty.
