“I don’t want to see trickle-down racism,” Romney told Blitzer. “I don’t want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/11/mitt-romney-hints-trickle-down-racism-trump/85747994/

‘His gender gap just went up to 80 percent’: Twitter reacts to Trump’s Clinton commentBy Elise Viebeck April 27 at 11:34 AM ?

It was the gaffe heard ’round social media.

Donald Trump was having a pretty great Tuesday night. He swept five Republican primaries, beat pundits’ expectations and declared himself Republicans’ “presumptive nominee.” Then, he proceeded to make several comments that will be a gift — a gift — to Hillary Clinton if the two face each other in the general election.

In case you missed it, here’s what Trump said:

I think the only card [Clinton] has is the woman’s card. She’s got nothing else going on. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going on is the women’s card. And the beautiful thing is women don’t like her, okay? And look how well I did with women tonight.

For a candidate that badly trails Clinton among women, these are bold remarks. And they were jaw-dropping to political Twitter, particularly its Democrats.

Democrats target ‘ReTrumplican’ senators in new national campaign – The Washington Post By Mike DeBonis March 15 at 6:00 AM

Featured in the ad are senators Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), John McCain (Ariz.), Ron Johnson (Wisc.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Patrick Toomey (Pa.) — all of whom are amid competitive re-election campaigns — as well as House members Joe Heck (Nev.), David Jolly (Fla.) and Ron DeSantis (Fla.), who are seeking Senate seats this year.

None have endorsed Trump, but none have said they will abandon him if he is nominated. An on-screen message says all are “running in lockstep with Donald Trump.”

The DSCC is promising a “sustained campaign” on the “Party of Trump” theme, starting with the web ad and a new website featuring a list of “ReTrumplicans,” and expanding to television, radio, and social media ads. The committee reported having $13.6 million in its coffers last month.

Democrats target ‘ReTrumplican’ senators in new national campaign – The Washington Post

Republicans’ mindless obstruction has helped create something far worse – The Washington Post By Dana Milbank Opinion writer March 11

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan had said this would be a “Year of Ideas,” with legislation aimed at poverty and health care. But the House has conducted legislative business on only 154 of the 431 days since this Congress began. Much of that time has been devoted to the obscure (this month’s legislation to delay regulations for brick kilns) and the symbolic (nine Republicans opposed naming a post office after the late poet Maya Angelou, and two of them called her a “communist sympathizer”).

And the Senate? Republicans once complained about all the House-passed bills that didn’t make it through the Democratic Senate. But at this point in 2014, there were 205 House-passed bills awaiting action; now there are 298 House-passed bills awaiting action by the GOP-controlled Senate.

Republicans’ mindless obstruction has helped create something far worse – The Washington Post

No more laughing off The Donald | Albuquerque Journal By Ruth Marcus / Syndicated Columnist

Yes, the real estate tycoon is a know-nothing, uninterested-in-learning-anything buffoon. Also: a demagogue and a bully whose emotional instability would pose a threat to national security.

But the Cruz alternative, it seemed to me then, was even worse. Cruz is smarter than Trump, more calculating than Trump (which is saying something) and way, way more conservative than Trump.

A Trump presidency, or so I reassured myself, at least offered the prospect of unprincipled deal-making in the service of what is Trump’s only guidepost – promoting the greater glory of Trump. President Cruz would be as absolutist as Sen. Cruz, and therefore, from my point of view, the worse president.

I was wrong.

Since that column in mid-December, Trump has proved himself to be even less knowledgeable and even more unhinged. His election would constitute a grave threat to American values and, potentially, American democracy. …

Trump is Nixon with all of the megalomaniacal willingness to abuse power and none of the crafty realpolitik.

No more laughing off The Donald | Albuquerque Journal