Trump's wingnut instincts are well-honed
by digby
He gets it in a visceral way that the rest of the pack just doesn't grok:
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy sent waves through the GOP presidential race with word he will endorse Marco Rubio. The announcement — the Rubio campaign is touting Gowdy's upcoming trip to Iowa on Rubio's behalf — became the subject of angry tweets from Donald Trump supporters, who quickly denounced Gowdy as a RINO and a fake conservative. (Gowdy's rating from the American Conservative Union is a near-perfect 97 for the nearly five years he has served in the House.)
Trump, in a Sunday-morning appearance on "Fox and Friends," took a different tack. "I hope [Gowdy] does a better job than he did, frankly, at the Benghazi hearings, because they were a total disaster," Trump said, referring to the Oct. 22 hearing in which Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, called Hillary Clinton to testify. After the marathon hearing, some observers on both sides of the political aisle concluded that Republicans had failed to lay a glove on Clinton.
"[Gowdy] did not win with those hearings," Trump said. "It was not good for Republicans and for the country. I hope he does a lot better for Marco than he did with the Benghazi hearings."
Trump also tweeted Sunday morning: "Rubio finally gets an endorsement — from Benghazi loser Gowdy." In another tweet Trump said, "Face it, Trey Gowdy failed miserably on Benghazi. He allowed it to drag out and in the end, let Hillary get away with murder."
As Byron York, the author of that piece, points out, Trump doesn't attack Gowdy for his ideology as the rest of the field did. He attacked his competence. Gowdy's a bad attack dog who couldn't kill the witch. Trump, of course, will get the job done. He's a killer. And a winner.
And it also says that Clinton's victorious appearance before Gowdy's committee wasn't really hers, right? It was just that Gowdy is a loser and couldn't put her away. It would have been easy if a real man had been in charge. Clinton, like Jeb, is "weak" and "has no stamina", remember? Both Clinton and Bush are girly-men, each being put-down in different ways with the same infantile gendered insult.
He's a cretin and a clown and a demagogue. But he is tapped directly into the wingnut talk radio id and he's much better at channeling it than any other politician out there because he feels no need to be respectable. In fact, I'm not sure he even understands what that is. It gives him a great advantage and he seems to know it.
Happy Hollandaise everyone.
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