Over the years, we haven't given failed former Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry Butchmeup**" Graham much credit for perception or wisdom, since he's one of his deranged Party's biggest cheerleaders for bombing the daylights out of any Middle Eastern country that looks at us crosseyed. Nevertheless, perhaps bitter that his anointed candidate, House of Bush scion John Ellis "J.E.B. : ( " Bush failed miserably in Huckleberry's home state, he's noticing what tens of millions of others have known for years: "My party has gone batshit crazy." (Yes, Huckleberry, and thanks for your contribution in that regard!)
Huckleberry was speaking at the annual Washington Press Club Foundation's dinner yesterday, taking shots at Hillary Clinton along the way, but reserved his most telling jabs at his fellow Rethugs. For example:
On "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz: "A good Republican would defend Ted Cruz after tonight. That ain't happening. If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you."
On Marco Roboto: "Then there is Marco, the boy wonder. I'm not saying he would change his position -- but he changes his position. The Secret Service's main job when he's president is to keep him hydrated."For frontrunner and neo-fascist vulgarian Donald "Rump" Trump, Huckleberry noted that he failed in his own quest for the nomination, and then backed loser J.E.B. : ( making him the Dr. Kevorkian of the 2016 Rethuglican race. Then he put Rump's signature "Make America Great Again" cap on.
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* "Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut." Or in this case, a whole party full of them.
** H/t to Esquire.com's Charles P. Pierce for the excellent moniker.
