What is so funny and wild about the unprecedented hijinks of the season of the Trump, is how these GOP candidates who claim they are all about "Christian morality" and "family values" have been so cowed by Trump's poll #s, by what he says that stirs supporters to greater love for him and hate for them (if they challenge him). Their lily livers are on display when it comes to defending those values, in the face of his bomb drops. And then, too, he has stories of when some of them came to him with tin cup in hand. And he likely has some other uncomfortable stories in his quiver.
I mean, it almost seemed, during the FOX debate, that he could say Jeb's or Kasich's beloved fathers were child molesters, their wives porn stars, and, when asked to respond, they would say, "Look, Mr. Trump has his ideas, I have mine, so let me just tell you about my great ideas for blah blah blah." (Just step over the dead body so I can show you my rose garden.) During the debate, when confronted with it, they were either euphemistic about his off-the-rails temperament and antics, or totally changed the subject. It makes them look exactly like what he is saying they are: "bought, sold, pretenders, hypocrites, weak." True, actually. And it aint just the GOP that's tainted by this.
This really is quite amazingly surreal, what he has done to rough up the whole traditional campaign rule book, as we knew it - and they are stuck with it. They have no where to hide. Many of them have taken the tack of saying nothing, but it looks crazy to say nothing when you have a potential nominee throwing bombs right and left in such a juvenile manner. I mean, while running for PRESIDENT of the USA - the position where one is held up to the highest expectations of diplomatic know-how, as in when dealing with world leaders. Decorum. Trump?! As he says, "We have no time for tone!" And YET, they all say they'd support him as the nominee! Like I said, they're stuck.
I mean, given the record, it's not hard to imagine President Trump twitter bombing President Putin with threats to nuke him! Or, on a lighter note, while channeling his inner teenage wiseguy, he might tweet about Putin's "saggy" naked "lady-pecs." And call out female officals as "PMS-ing" when he perceives a dis from them.
Even the media hardly mentions the big elephant in the room, what a cartoonish parallel universe it is to imagine The Donald in the highest office, "leader of the free world," which he's legitimately running for, while running off his mouth. Oh wait, they're scared of him too! Maybe if they don't speak up they'll keep the viewers who dont like him while not driving away those who do.
I will say, his run has been terribly fascinating in how he keeps roiling the soil and exposing what lies beneath!