(Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
Oh, for crying out loud. Via Politico, Donald Trump informed us, during his interview on—where else?—Fox, that criticizing him is bad for America.
MACCALLUM: ...You know, when you go home at night and you talk to your wife and you think about all this, how does get -- this hammering, in your words, how does that get factored into the decision?
TRUMP: Well, I think it's very bad for the country. And it doesn't affect my decision because I think I have a pretty thick skin. But I think it's very bad for the country because the kind of people -- and I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about generally speaking. The kind of person you need to run this country has to be somebody that really has accomplished a lot because he's got to accomplish -- he or she has to accomplish a lot for the country.
Don't you just love how Republicans are all about freedom of speech when it comes to campaign donations from corporations, or questioning whether the president is a real American citizen, or terrorizing women outside health clinics, but when it comes to criticism directed at them, all of a sudden, Americans "need to watch what they say, watch what they do," and not "manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence" or else "it's very bad for the country"?
I guess this news, from PPP, can't be good for the country:
Donald Trump has had one of the quickest rises and falls in the history of Presidential politics. Last month we found him leading the Republican field with 26%. In the space of just four weeks he's dropped all the way down to 8%, putting him in a tie for fifth place with Ron Paul.
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As Trump got more and more exposure over the last month Republicans didn't just decide they weren't interested in having him as their nominee- they also decided they flat don't like him. Only 34% of GOP voters now have a favorable opinion of Trump to 53% who view him in a negative light.
Gosh, hope I didn't just undermine our national security.