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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Sat Mar 12, 2016, 04:40 PM Mar 2016

George Will unloads on “coward” Drumpf: Conservative icon calls him “a presidential aspirant"

"who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam”

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/01/george_will_unloads_on_coward_trump_conservative_icon_calls_him_a_presidential_aspirant_who_would_flunk_an_eighth_grade_civics_exam/

Likening Trump’s “distinctive rhetorical style” to “a drunk with a bullhorn reading aloud James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ under water,” Will goes on to call Donald a “thin-skinned tough guy,” who “resembles a campus crybaby who has wandered out of his ‘safe space'” — the ultimate conservative chirp.

And, “(l)ike all bullies,” Will adds, “Trump is a coward, and like all those who feel the need to boast about being strong and tough, he is neither.”

Citing Trump’s purported plan to “loosen up those libel laws” to easier sue the pants off publications whose reporting doesn’t meet his standards of niceness, Will claims Trump “has neither respect for nor knowledge of the Constitution.” A claim bolstered by Trump’s weirdly inept (even for Trump) understanding of the judicial process during last’s week’s debate:

“Trump, during the Houston debate, said that his sister, a federal judge, ‘signed a certain bill’ and that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito also ‘signed that bill.’ So, the leading Republican candidate, the breadth of whose ignorance is the eighth wonder of the world, actually thinks that judges ‘sign bills.’ Trump is a presidential aspirant who would flunk an eighth-grade civics exam.”