From Jon Perr at PERRspectives:
This week, the GOP’s best and brightest were shocked–SHOCKED!–to discover that the man who easily captured their party’s presidential nomination is a racist.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on Trump University case judge Gonzalo Curiel, Senator Lindsey Graham proclaimed, “This is the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy” and urged fellow Republicans to un-endorse the party’s nominee. Endangered Illinois GOP Senator Mark Kirk, who previously proposed sending free contraceptives to Mexico to curb future illegal immigration from south of the border, quickly followed that advice, declaring “Donald Trump’s belief that an American-born judge of Mexican descent is incapable of fairly presiding over his case is not only dead wrong, it is un-American.” Last Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused three times to acknowledge Trump’s was a “racist statement,” only to conclude by Tuesday the remarks were “outrageous and unacceptable.” For his part, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) acknowledged that Trump’s slanders represented “the textbook definition of a racist comment” while stopping short of withdrawing his support.