There is no moderate GOP choice.
by digby
So Peter Beinert thinks the best way to save the country from the scourge of Trump is to ... help Marco Rubio? Because unlike Trump, Marco Rubio will adhere to the constitution?
This Marco Rubio?
"I believe the world is a safer and a better place when America is the strongest power in the world, and I believe only with a strong America will we defeat this radical group, this apocalyptic group called ISIS," said Rubio.... "If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe."
Granted, he's not openly calling for beheading and killing the families of terrorist suspects to make them talk. But it's pretty clear he means to torture people to "find out everything they know, unlike Barack Obama".
How about this guy?
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seems to be going further than even Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in advocating the crackdown of U.S. Muslims. He doesn’t just want to consider shutting down mosques, as Trump says, but wants to shut down “any place where radicals are being inspired.”
“It’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down any place — whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site — any place where radicals are being inspired,” Rubio said on Fox News’ The Kelly File on Thursday night when asked if he agreed with Trump. “The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.”
“So whatever facility is being used -- it’s not just a mosque -- any facility that’s being used to radicalize and inspire attacks against the United States, should be a place that we look at,” he continued.
I don't think Rubio is as batshit as Trump. But I don't think he's someone we should count on to save the republic either. He's a product of the Tea Party right and has no compunction about going all the way over the cliff if that's what it takes.
If you don't want a lunatic, authoritarian, extremist wingnut for president vote for one of the Democrats. Because all the Republicans running are are either lunatics, authoritarians or extremists in various combinations. The Dems aren't perfect, but they're better than any of the freaks the other side has on offer at the moment.
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I would have thought that was obvious to any sentient being by this point.
