Suddenly There Is No "I" In "Republican"

In today's exciting episode of "Adventures in Republican Detachment Disorder" former Republican president George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, senior Republican policy adviser and reliable Republican Beltway stalactite, Michael Gerson, continues his epic war on inconvenient personal pronouns

"We" Republicans?

"Us" Republicans?

No, no, no.

It's those Republicans who fucked it all up and let us all down.

Those Republicans.

Waaaaaaaay over there.

Actually the first paragraph of this grifter's "Get Out Of Responsibility Free" blabbing was pretty amazing for a whole 'nother reason, but we'll get to that towards the end.  For now, let us marvel at how -- like every other god damn Republican hog feeding at the Beltway trough -- this influential, life-long, hard-core  Conservative has abruptly started describing his Republican party as if it were some hostile, alien Brain Bug which he and a handful of brave mobile infantry managed to capture during their heroic raid on Planet P:

From the Washington Post:

The GOP is learning the hard way that character matters

By Michael Gerson Opinion writer June 16 at 7:15 PM

Your GOP, Michael.  Your GOP.

Republicans are beginning to see that the main problem with their presumptive nominee is not his lack of basic knowledge or his inability to stay on the script of sanity for 10 minutes at a time. The problem is Donald Trump’s public character, which no amount of last-minute coaching can change.

Mr. Gerson goes on to express his horror at many things Trump has said, including --

Trump has already raised the possibility that Obama is a Kenyan and a jihadist and that Hillary Clinton was involved in Vince Foster’s murder. 

-- without bothering to mention that Trump is doing nothing more or less than singing from the same, well-thumbed ratfuck hymnal that his Republican party was using twenty years ago, and ten years ago, and eight years ago, and four years ago.  

Funny, but I don't recall Mr. Gerson throwing his Secret Reagan Dog-Whistle Decoder Ring in the Potomac and storming out of the Party of Personal Responsibility on any of those occasions?

Mr. Gerson continues (with a little emphasis added by me)

Republicans may go into the Cleveland convention with the worst case of buyer’s remorse in American political history. Their presumptive nominee...

For now, Republicans such as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are content to criticize the candidate they have endorsed. But a party convention is an up-or-down moment. Will they allow the balloons to drop on a leader with a broken moral compass? Or will they try to change the convention rules — perhaps to require a supermajority in picking a nominee — in an act of desperate resistance? Either way, Republicans are learning the hard way that character counts.

Those awful Republicans!  Where did they pick up all of these bad habits?

And now, as promised, we swing back to the first paragraph, to sample Mr. Gerson's little gem of sweet, sweet Strategic Forgettery:

Since Thomas Jefferson’s concubine, Warren Harding’s love nest and Bill Clinton’s innovative intern program, Americans have debated the role of character in leadership. 

Yes, Michael Gerson -- eager enabler and word-valet of the worst President in modern history -- worked Bill Clinton's penis into the very first line of a column about Donald Trump, but only because he needed to impart an important lesson about the various gradations of moral failings:

But the concept of character has often been defined too narrowly. Sexual ethics — involving a range of behaviors from doomed longing to cruel exploitation — is a part of it, but not the largest part. “The sins of the flesh are bad,” wrote C.S. Lewis, “but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred.”

Mr. Gerson then works his way into the body of the column we have already discussed -- a column implying that Donald Trump is some recent and completely aberrant freak of Republican nature, However, by gratuitously introduced the subject of Bill Clinton's affair, Mr. Gerson leaves the door wide open to ask the next logical question:  How the fuck do you not remember that your Republican party not only impeached Bill Clinton for this "least bad of all sins" -- it went a million miles out of its way to impeach Bill Clinton?

Mr. Gerson somehow kinda forgets that knowledge of Bill Clinton's "innovative intern program" only came to light as a byproduct of a remorseless, coordinated slash-and-burn witch-hunting campaign conducted by the leaders of Mr. Gerson's Republican party for the expressed purpose of destroying the Clinton Administration by any means necessary.

Mr. Gerson also somehow kinda forgets that all of those attempts by the leaders of Mr. Gerson's Republican party to cripple and overthrow of the Clinton Administration turned out to be just a dress rehearsal for the full-on, seditious, rule-or-ruin racist madness that the leaders of Mr. Gerson's Republican party unleashed seven and a half years ago for the expressed purpose of destroying the Obama Administration by any means necessary.

You see, Mr. Gerson, Donald Trump is the price you have made this country pay for the anarchy you and your Republican party have loosed upon the world.  

He is the creature of your blood-dimmed tide, Mr. Gerson.

Your rough beast.

His hour come 'round at last.

Slouching towards Cleveland to be born.