Fresh Air

For a long time we've written about the exclusive GOP Republicans. Not that we've ever been a member,donor or ever will be. It was an interesting subject about a boring, staid  group of people who always professed to know much but in the end knew very little when it came to their much desired political success.

Today's Wall Street Journal published a front page article, "Populist Waves Flood GOP," that tries to explain how the party got here from there. It's really a rather pathetic piece, long on suppositions and short on reality.

The authors bring up so-called populist thrusts from a range of people, George Wallace to Ronald Reagan to the Tea Party and Pat Buchanan. Wallace, the former Alabama racist governor who underwent a metamorphose, captured the essence of both of these political party pretenders when he declared: "There's not a dime's worth of difference"in them.

That was then, this is now. Today it's $100 because inflation's been on a rampage since Wallace's day and those lying central bankers and Washington bureaucrats have been trying to hide it from the masses like the Clinton campaign's covering up her serious illness. In the 1950s the Republican party consisted of your local country club crowd, all-white, exclusive and full of fatuous jokes. Now we're nearly one-fifth into the 21st Century and the Republican party is,well, you get the idea--nearly all white, exclusive and full of fatuous highbrow nonsense. These are folks who always point their little pinky when drinking their afternoon tea.

A good place to begin your fact checking is the editorial board these two authors labor for. They might wear the obligatory dark suit, white shirt and kaleidoscope-colored tie, but they, like their party, are bankrupt. In their view the crude Trump went from a clown to a racist to, even worse, a fiendish crude groper. In Trump's defense, at least that's not as bad as being a crude fiendish groper. But rumor has it many of the homely women who work there are just plain pissed off because the Donald hasn't tried to grope them yet. Hang in there, ladies. Dreams can come true.

Now that the rubber is about to meet the spot at the end of the campaign trail these braves souls are beginning to run stories questioning the corrupt Hillary most of them want to vote for because Trump snubbed them without the benefit of genuflecting to their status and honor and their well-worn worldly advice when he launched his quest.. A while back there was a popular saying: Go figure! With these crusty folks, it's not hard. This is the same crowd that coughed up an insipid, dull Mitch Romney.

The whole election farce is boring to begin with. So here's your choice: Watch paint dry with Mitch. Kasich or Cruz or get seriously entertained with the Donald? One thing about fresh air; it removes a lot of the past stench.