Take a look at all these Republican presidential candidates for 2016.
Study them.
If you've got the stomach, pick up a copy of your local newspaper or a newsmagazine and read what they've got to say.
And if you've got even more of a stomach, watch these candidates on TV...and listen to what they've got to say.
Donald Trump...John Ellis Bush...Scott Walker...Rafael "Ted" Cruz...Rand Paul...Rick Perry...Marco Rubio...Rick Santorum...Chris Christie...Mike Huckabee...Piyush "Bobby" Jindal...Lindsey Graham...Ben Carson...Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina. (I've got the feeling I've left somebody out!)
You hear them bashing this ethnic group, that ethnic group, LGBT people, America's middle-income and low-income households, this country's rank-and-file employees.
You catch the officeholders among them just plain making it harder for rank-and-file Americans to live their own lives. If the Walkers and Jindals among them aren't fighting to put labor unions out of business, they're working 24/7 to make sure women can't get real access to health care products and services.
This country's biggest media companies don't help when their reporters and their immediate superiors (and the superiors' own bosses) care more about Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails (and actual or perceived role in the 9-11-2012 Benghazi uprising) than about JEB's role in the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s, his role in the 2000 US presidential election, and his signing of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law when he ran the Sunshine State's government.
It all makes me want to vomit. (And I've thrown up just twice in my life...once in 1965, and then again two years later!)
The rhetoric of today's Republicans- especially those trying to get the chance to ride Air Force One- just makes me want to vomit.
How about you?
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