Republicans with Gender Identity Issues

Vincent J. Curtis

12 Aug 2016

When the race for the Republican nomination began in earnest, there were 17 candidates in the running.  The Republican Party apparatus were fearful that Donald Trump might run as an independent, third party candidate if he lost the Republican nomination.  Trump was the one who famously put up his hand when, at the first debate in August, 2015, moderator Bret Baier asked if anyone on stage would be unwilling to support the eventual nominee.

The Party apparatus reacted strongly, and required all candidates to support the eventual nominee.  They obliged all candidates to sign a pledge.  Donald Trump signed the pledge after assuring himself that he would be treated “fairly” by the Party.  All the other candidates signed it also, including Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Carli Fiorina.  Trump was a 17 to 1 longshot, so the odds were pretty good that some long-time, inside-the-pale candidate was going to win.  Trump was a rank amateur, so the odds might prove even longer.  It was a safe bet to make.

The 17 to 1 longshot won the race, and now it’s time for the gambling debts to be paid off.  The losers are balking.

Donald Trump has built and operated a few casinos in his day.  A casino operator knows that if he fails to pay his debts to his customers, he loses his credibility and then goes out of business.  A casino operator can be many bad things, but a welsher on a gambling debt can’t be one of them.  You can be a bad man, but you have to be a man when it counts.

There aren’t too many men left among the Republican also-rans.  Most of them have failed to live up to the debt they incurred by being on the losing side of the bet against Donald Trump.

They seem to have gender-identity issues.  They presented as men on the stage, but when the time came to pay up, they showed themselves to be something other than as men.

This problem with gender identity has become a wider issue in the Republican Party generally.  Scores of the Republican Party establishment once thought of as men are now presenting themselves as something other than as men.  Buried in today’s news is a report on how 70 people who previously presented themselves as Republican are coming out of the closet and denouncing Trump, and in the election in November will present themselves as Democrats and (dare they admit it?) Hillary supporters.

Clearly, the conscience of these disgruntled Republicans is bothering them  They are finding themselves between a rock and hard place.  And now that the going gets tough, the tough are going to turn into women.  Far be it from me to use this old, sexist expression (Hillary can be pretty tough at times), but you know what I mean.  People who presented themselves as rock-ribbed Republicans turn out to be squishes when things didn’t go their way.

People who previously presented themselves as Republicans that denounce Trump in the presence of a Hillary Clinton candidacy have gender-identity issues.  Are they Republicans or in-the-closet secret Democrats?  Are they men or women? (Again, you know what I mean)  Dereliction of duty in the presence of the enemy, going over to the side of the enemy, used to be pretty serious military offences, to say nothing of what it said about one’s character.

In the presence of the enemy, these people turn into Corporal Klinger, or Bowe Bergdahl.

In a piece published in today’s National Review Online, senior editor Jonah Goldberg (who has pair of pins, BTW) explains why.  For all the fetid corruption around Hillary, she is boring.  She falls within the boundaries of the known.  Trump, on the other hand, wants to take the country to a place unknown, unforecastable, and therefore is dangerous.  It’s a good thing the folks on the Mayflower didn’t have gender-identity issues, or else America and the American experiment might never have begun.

It is sometimes said amusingly that, “when the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.”  A surprising number of folks with gender-identity issues who previously presented themselves as Republicans, are finding the going tough, and have gone shopping – for Hillary.

Bowe Bergdahls indeed.

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