This headline is misleading. Conservatives are not intelligent enough to experience embarassment. That is a mental state that requires a level of self awareness that a conservative is unable to achieve with their limited brain power.
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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Basically, the GOP has resigned itself to Trump being the candidate. Watch for who they pick for VP, because that's who they want to run the show when Trump gets carted off to prison. To be clear, I don't think the GOP as a party organization cares any more about Trump than he does about them; he's just a vehicle for winning the election, as far as they're concerned. After that, they may even see him as too much of a headache to keep around (see the multimillion dollar legal fees he's piling up for them) and throw him under the bus.
Hah, you think the party is gonna pick the VP. Trump tried that once before, look how that turned out. They put someone there who wasn't "loyal" enough.
Get ready for the Donald Trump / Donald Trump Jr. Ticket....
There's some thing Trump doesn't have control over. In this regard, they've got Trump by the balls, because he knows he can't win a third party run and, more than anything else, he wants to win.
More than anything else, he wants money, and to stay out of prison, in that order. Running for elected office is a means to those ends. Winning elected office is a means to those ends. Anything he does or did as POTUS is a means to those ends.
They should not be "embarrased". They should simply kick him out of the race for not playing along.
"Louis Gurvich, chair of the Republican Party of Louisiana, said the debates “have demeaned every candidate who participated in them,” "
That's not going to change with Trump on the stage...
Came here to say the same thing. The tone of the debate is not going to improve with the bomb-throwing toddler onstage with the rest of the clown show.
I wonder how long until the GOP decides that voting on their canadate is pointless too and just appoint Trump as their eternal leader?
If Trump is allowed to refuse to debate then he will continue doing so. Not sure what is expected.
Who wants to watch the big Cheese Turd? Don’t we get enough of him from the mainstream media farming for outrage clicks?