Let's forget The Donald for a minute.
If I were Reince Priebus or someone else in a leadership position in the GOP, I'd be awake all night, despairing of finding a candidate who wasn't an obvious turkey.
None of the current crop of aspirants are even marginally competent; many are obvious flop-sweat-stained losers — and all of them would be toast against either Hillary or Bernie (go, Bernie!).
I see this, and if it's obvious to a DFH like me, it's got to be obvious to any but the most delusional members of the Republican core leadership.
Which makes me think of an analogy drawn from my life as a concert producer.
While I'd like to think that my concert productions are always perfect affairs, the fact is that some of the time things don't go well.
Press releases miss deadlines.
The acts on the bill turn out not to have their own publicity shit together.
The posters look ugly.
A server screw-up accidentally cancels an email blast and nobody knows about the event.
And as producer, I look at it when stuff like this happens...and I hope for rain. I hope for tornadoes and hail and falling bridges...because that gives me an excuse for the poor attendance that's a lot more comforting than, "nobody wanted to come to my concert."
Well, when Bill Clinton got elected, what happened? Because an egomaniac billionaire named Ross Perot got in the race and messed everything up for them, the Republicans were able to avoid confronting the fact that their ideas sucked really badly. They had a built-in excuse for their loss — an "asterisk," if you will, on the Clinton presidency.
And excusing their failures is the one thing that Republicans do consistently well.
That's what makes me think (only partly in jest) that the GOP core leadership might not mind a 3rd-party Trump campaign all that much.
Which would make the only time in history that I agreed with them.
Thoughts?