A bungled and possibly contested convention could have lasting repercussions not only for the eventual nominee but also for the Republican brand. Party leaders fear that a week of contentious floor fights, inflammatory rhetoric and potentially violent protests could project a negative image to voters nationwide. (our emphasis)Golly, gee, ya think?! (As our octogenarian grandfather once said when viewing a piece of abstract expressionist art, "I could do that!")
First, "the Republican brand" (i.e., nativism, homophobia, misogyny, racism, hypocrisy, greed and selfishness - and any other Seven Deadly Sins we forgot)?? That "Republican brand" is so stained, tattered, compromised and ass- wiped that is has ceased to be a "brand" and has been a full- blown stigma for years. For Costa and Rucker, though, it remains "a brand" that has yet to suffer any "repercussions," apparently. They may need an intervention.
Second, the convention "could project a negative image to voters nationwide?" As if nearly a year of violent neo- fascist rallies, the crudest comments on male and female genitalia, vicious attacks on non- white/ non- straight/ non- Christian Americans, apocalyptic threats, and non- stop outright lies and slander hasn't already accomplished that feat? Where the hell have these two elite "journalists" been hiding?
We would like to believe they know better but are simply playing the Beltway media game of keeping your sources (in this case various Republican "insiders" and bosses) returning your phone calls. Unfortunately, it's what passes for "journalism" at a time when having a clear voice of reality would be most welcome. But at this point in time, it's the media's "brand" that has suffered "lasting repercussions."
Sic transit gloria, America.
