奧巴馬好總統，痛揍布隆伯格和其它淳樸新聞

世界少了空氣是小事，沒了淳樸（Donald Trump），大家主心骨沒了，那就是日月無光。

 

 

百忙之中，淳樸跟紐約時報專欄作家稻茉芸（Maureen Dowd）通了電話，心善的淳樸說奧巴馬是好總統，（總統夫人）蜜蕭在民主黨黨代會發言很棒，克林頓（Hillary Clinton）女兒巧喜跟自己女兒伊萬卡是好友：

Obama gave a good speech but not nearly as good as the press would have you believe. Whether it’s good or bad, the press will say it’s fantastic. In many ways, I like Obama. It’s hard to define. There’s something about him I do like. I’m embarrassed to admit it. I give him a lot of credit. It’s very unique and very hard to do and I give him tremendous credit. He became a two-term president of the United States. He’s got some quality going

 

She gave a very good speech

 

I thought Chelsea was excellent. I thought she was very good. She’s very friendly with Ivanka. They like each other and they should continue to be friends. My children were the stars of my convention

說起跟另外一個富翁布隆伯格的怨恨，布隆伯格在民主黨黨代會上大罵淳樸，淳樸說“恨不得痛揍他們”：

I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy

 

 

美國大亨科赫兄弟（Koch Brothers），出了名的又黑又右，反勞工反政府是數一數二的，但淳樸有些主張很左，素為科赫兄弟痛恨，幾個月前甚至說要支持克林頓，可見他們恨得。他們有個聯絡會，極右大亨應邀才能參加，關起門來專門商討如何用錢打通閻王殿的大門。最近黨內有人敦促他們跟淳樸和解，共同對付克林頓和民主黨，不過他們不為所動。近日聯絡會開會，大概有人覺得淳樸有可能被邀，問了一下，其實人家沒有邀請。不過淳樸那受得了：

As 400 wealthy conservative donors in the Charles and David Koch network gathered at a luxury resort at the base of the Rocky Mountains here, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took to his normal form of communication, Twitter, to blast the activist brothers, saying he "turned down" a meeting request with them

 

Donald J. Trump ? @realDonaldTrump
I turned down a meeting with Charles and David Koch. Much better for them to meet with the puppets of politics, they will do much better!

淳樸本色。

 

 

這並不影響淳樸聲明自己最具總統氣質：

Donald Trump Says He Has One of the 'Best Temperaments' of Any Presidential Candidate

然而主流媒體也夠黑心，不停地挖料，詆毀淳樸，哥倫比亞廣播公司說梅蘭妮不老實，虛報文憑，大學沒畢業卻號稱建築業本科，最後隻好撤了：

CBS News alleges that Melania Trump didn't graduate from the school with a degree, according to the university’s public records

淳樸隻好也不客氣了，說更克林頓客氣了一會兒，休戰完了，動真刀真槍的時候到了：

"I'm starting to agree with you, frankly," he said. "No more Mr. Nice Guy."

 

民主黨黨代會上一群大腕高調發言，好評如潮，但盡得風光的是一個穆斯林老爸，兒子在伊拉克殉國。他的發言網上傳瘋了：

 

《美政機要》（Politico）Seven Minutes That Shook the Convention

 

視頻：

 

的確他是“異族”，“危險的穆斯林”，但是殉職軍人家屬，，烈屬，美國是第一類，沒人能得罪；的確他質疑淳樸，質疑淳樸沒讀過憲法，沒為國犧牲過，但也不能得罪。可是普爺爺受不了：

I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices

 

淳樸進一步暗示老媽沒開口，是伊斯蘭教義禁止。這沒腦子沒的。

 

 

是的，純粉裏有覺得痛快的，但至於的嗎？

 

 

 

淳樸隨後還是忍不住，話多，如“咱貢獻可大了，帶來了成千上萬的工作職位”，“我在退伍軍人中的聲望如日中天”，等等，八卦激進媒體沒放過，繼續惡毒攻擊：

 

Is Donald Trump OK? Erratic behaviour raises mental health questions

 

惡心。

 

帝國氣派

 

 

【附錄】

《華爾街日報社論》To the Go-Along Republicans

Memo to Paul Ryan: Trump’s problem is his character, not his ‘ideas.’

Bret Stephens

 

There’s an old saying that in politics there are no permanent victories—and no permanent defeats. Barry Goldwater was crushed in 1964 but the ideas that animated his candidacy found new life in the Reagan Revolution of 1980. Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in 1996 and 14 years later we got ObamaCare.

 

The inevitable turning of the policy wheel should comfort conservatives unnerved by the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Liberals overreach. Statist solutions fail. Voters tire of one-party rule. To govern is to own, and the next president will own the next recession, the next foreign-policy fiasco, the next Veterans Affairs scandal. If Mrs. Clinton is everything Republicans say she is—an opportunistic, dishonest, incompetent left-wing ideologue—they can at least look forward to a one-term presidency. I know I do.

 

But to say there are no permanent victories or defeats in politics doesn’t mean there is no permanent dishonor. Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, Alger Hiss, Joe McCarthy and Bull Connor are the foul names of America’s 20th century, and always will be. And those who supported and excused them will always be tainted by association.

 

This is where Republicans now find themselves with their presidential nominee. Of all of Donald Trump’s vile irruptions—about Sen. John McCain’s military record, or reporter Serge Kovaleski’s physical handicap, or Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s judicial fitness—his casual smear of Ghazala Khan is perhaps the vilest.

 

This isn’t simply because Mrs. Khan is a bereaved mother. Bereavement alone does not place someone above criticism, especially when it comes to political differences. Nor is it because Mrs. Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, died heroically to protect his troops in Iraq. The special deference given to Gold Star parents is, at bottom, a social convention.

 

No: What makes Mr. Trump’s remarks so foul is their undisguised sadism. He took a woman too heartbroken and anxious to speak of her dead son before an audience of millions and painted a target on her. He treated her silence as evidence that she was either a dolt or a stooge. He degraded her. “She was standing there. She had nothing to say,” Mr. Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.”

 

In this comment there was the full unmasking of Mr. Trump, in case he needed further unmasking. He has, as Humayun’s father Khizr put it, a “black soul.” His problem isn’t a lack of normal propriety but the absence of basic human decency. He is morally unfit for any office, high or low.

 

This is the point that needs to dawn—and dawn soon—on Republican officeholders who pretend to endorse Mr. Trump while also pretending, via wink-and-nod, that they do not. Paul Ryan has tried to walk this razor’s edge by stressing how much he disagrees with Mr. Trump’s “ideas.” On Sunday the speaker issued a flabby statement extolling the Khan family’s sacrifice and denouncing religious tests for immigrants without mentioning Mr. Trump by name.

 

Mr. Ryan is doing his personal reputation and his party’s fortunes no favors with these evasions. The central issue in this election isn’t Mr. Trump’s ideas, such as they are. It’s his character, such as it is. The sin, in this case, is the sinner.

 

It will not do for Republicans to say they denounce Mr. Trump’s personal slanders; his nativism and protectionism and isolationism; his mendacity and meanness and crassness; his disdain for constitutional protections—and still campaign for his election. There is no redemption in saying you went along with it, but only halfway; that with Mr. Trump you maintained technical virginity. To lie down with him is to wake up with him. It’s as simple as that.

 

That’s a thought that ought to frighten Republicans. The Khan slander was not Mr. Trump’s first and will not be his last or worst. As one wag on Twitter put it, the man always finds a new bottom. Nor are we likely done with new disclosures about Mr. Trump’s business practices and associations. Conservative die-hards may try to hold fast to the excuse that Hillary Clinton was, is, and always will be “worse,” but the argument can’t be sustained indefinitely. Mrs. Clinton is not the apotheosis of evil. She may be a corner-cutter and a liar, and she’ll almost surely appoint liberals to the Supreme Court. But at least she’s not a sociopath.

 

Politics is mostly the business of maintaining popularity in the here-and-now. Not always. Come January, Mrs. Clinton will likely be president. Whether there is a GOP that can still lay a claim to moral and political respectability is another question. Mr. Ryan and other Go-Along Republicans should treat the Khan episode as their last best hope to preserve political reputations they have worked so hard to build.