One possibly amusing diversion in what is sure to an otherwise especially cruel and humorless election campaign, is to watch Republicans who should otherwise know better appear on television and try to defend Trump’s antics and pretend that everything they’ve worked for all their lives hasn’t just been usurped by the Grand Wizard of Wrestling.
Here’s a clip of Haley Barbour on Morning Joe this morning. I’m obviously not a big fan of a former Republican governor of Mississippi who is also a former head of the RNC. But, I do admire his considerable political gifts and his deep-south-as-it gets accent. And suspect he would be someone I wouldn’t mind having a beer with. Or a couple or three bourbons at an airport bar along with a basket of fried catfish and some hush puppies.
Watch this usually glib, fast-talker just twist himself in knots trying to make sense of the Trump campaign. Skip ahead to 2:00 minutes in the clip where Joe Scarborough (remember, a former Republican congressman from Florida) asks him about Trump’s re-surfacing the Vince Foster murder insinuations. And then, right after that, Mark Halperin (another Republican), asks him what he thinks of Newt Gingrich as Trump’s possible running mate.
His answer is basically, “Newt Gingrich is a living person, and I have met him on more than one occasion.”
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