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Worst Seem Deranged and Best Appear Fearful
What’s
happened to
Republicans?
D ONALD K AUL
At long last Re-
publican presiden-
tial hopefuls crept
out of their foxholes,
where they’d been
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cowering and maintaining
dio silence, to attack Donald
Trump.
With one or two exceptions,
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trashed immigrants, calling
them drug runners and rapists.
But as soon as Trump said “I
like people who weren’t cap-
tured,” suggesting that Sena-
tor John McCain was less than
a hero, they pounced.
Senator
Lindsey
Gra-
ham fumed that Trump’s had
“crossed a line.” Former Flor-
ida Governor Jeb Bush con-
demned his “slanderous at-
tacks.” Former Texas Governor
Rick Perry called on Trump to
exit the race altogether.
How noble of them.
Of course, it helped having
some truth on their side. As a
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Navy pilot, McCain was shot
down and wounded during a
bombing mission in the Viet-
nam War. The future Arizona
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en and his injuries were al-
lowed to go untended. Yet
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when his captors offered
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him
hi release after discovering
that his father commanded the
entire Vietnam theater of the
war, he refused. He was bound
by military code to wait until
everyone captured before him
had been released.
That should settle the ar-
gument. Whatever you think
of the Vietnam War, McCain
showed tremendous integrity.
Trump is an idiot.
But I wonder where these
Republicans and their ilk were
in 2004, when John Kerry was
the Democratic Party’s presi-
dential nominee. He was an-
other hero whose patriotism
was assailed. The only differ-
ence: He was a Democrat and
his assailants Republicans.
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nanced machine to tell lies
about Kerry’s war record. His
opponent, President George
W. Bush, raised not a hand in
protest at this slander.
As a matter of fact there was
only one prominent Republi-
can who spoke out in protest
of the scummy Republican
campaign: John McCain.
What’s happened to Repub-
licans? They used to be such
nice people. Sure, they fa-
vored the moneyed interests
and disliked unions and taxes,
but they supported good caus-
es too — like public schools.
Some Republicans were en-
vironmentalists and interna-
tionalists. And, never forget, it
was under a Republican pres-
ident, Dwight Eisenhower,
that we undertook the greatest
public works project in our
history — the interstate high-
way system.
And it was another Repub-
lican, Teddy Roosevelt, who
inaugurated our national parks
system.
That kind of Republican ei-
ther doesn’t exist anymore or
is sheltered in a witness pro-
tection program.
Your current brand of Re-
publicans wouldn’t pave a
road unless it ran in front of
their houses. Even then they’d
pay for it by cutting Social Se-
curity payments.
They’re against opening up
relations with Cuba, negotiat-
ing with Iran, cutting the mil-
itary budget to bring it more
in line with our needs, and
raising the minimum wage.
They don’t believe in climate
change because to do so would
mean going against the oil in-
terests that generously fund
their electoral campaigns.
Look at the gang that’s run-
ning for the Republican nom-
ination: The worst of them
seem deranged and the best
appear fearful that they’ll do
something to raise the ire of
the party’s tea party wing.
Like criticize Donald Trump
when he slanders immigrants.
It’s not like the Democrats
are white knights. They have
more than their share of hy-
pocrisy and cowardice. But
the Republicans are talking it
to a whole new level.
Even Ronald Reagan must
be spinning in his grave.
OtherWords columnist Don-
ald Kaul lives in Ann Arbor,
Mich.