re: Georgia Primary Results. . .

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"The debate last night was a political dumpster fire. I haven't been that repulsed since I dissected a cow's eyeball in my 10th grade science class. The Republican Party has become a laughingstock.

In fact, I'm at CPAC this year for the first time, and as I walk the convention center I feel like I can detect a certain sort of shell shocked, embarrassed, confused feeling emanating from the crowd. Last night my hotel was filled with drunk CPACers stumbling through the halls. I can only assume they're all trying to drown their sorrows.

I won't offer an analysis or report card of the debate because, at this point, you're either thoroughly disgusted by what the election season has become, or you're insane. There's no sense in telling the folks in the former category what they already know, and there's no sense in trying to tell the folks in the latter category what they're intellectually incapable of understanding.

I will say that in the midst of Trump bragging about his genitals, blatantly lying about everything, and changing his position on a dozen issues, Ted Cruz did manage to have his best performance. And this is a guy with a lot of great performances under his belt.

Rubio performed pretty well also, especially considering he had the flu. Kasich was fine. I don't hate the guy but he's not going to win and his Mr. Positive routine strikes me as phony. Maybe it isn't, but that's just the impression I get. Kasich was also tepid in defending religious liberty, which is unforgivable in my book.

And then there was Trump. We don't have to get into it. I'm sick of the guy. I keep hearing that "plenty of intelligent and decent people support him," but you watch last night's debate and tell me how in God's name that could be possible. I'm sorry, but I just cannot fathom how an "intelligent and decent" person could support this insanity. I just can't. I'm being honest with you here.

A lot will be made of various tidbits and episodes from the debate, but I'm guessing the most significant and outrageous one will be ignored. At one point, the moderator asked Trump about Trump's previous pledge to target and kill the wives and children of terrorist suspects. Trump refused to disavow that pledge, and essentially reaffirmed it. People applauded.

Trump EXPLICITLY said he would force his generals to carry out war crimes against civilians and his fans cheered. This is what I'm talking about. "Intelligent and decent people"? Come on. This is decent? This is intelligent?

If we lived in a good and moral country, it would be headline news that a frontrunning presidential candidate just promised on national TV to assassinate women and children. Every news channel would lead with it, and it would be the end of his campaign. Instead, we're talking about Trump's penis and Rubio's yoga joke (which was funny, I admit).

We are humiliating ourselves as a nation.

The entire world is laughing at us, and we deserve it."

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