Now it appears even GOP-e dope Reince Priebus, better known as Rinse Pubis (thanks to Ben Carson) is going birther and wouldn’t comment on if Ted Cruz is eligible to be President of the United States. With all the talk about how the GOP-e hates Donald Trump, I think they had Ted Cruz more so. If the head of the GOP wouldn’t even come to the defense wouldn’t dispell the BS about Tedd Cruz’s eligibility, then no one in the GOP-e will. I don’t fault Donald Trump for bringing it up. He was right, this is a big issue for the Democrats and progressive Republicans to try and ruin him. Pathetic, but again not surprising.
| Reince Priebus on Ted Cruz’s eligibility: No comment |
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Both the RNC and DNC are imploding. Rinse Pubis and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz have pissed off the grassroots in both their parties. Pubis needs to go, and go now.
That’s interesting because, as Drew McCoy noted earlier on Twitter, Priebus was willing to vouch for Obama’s natural-born status when he was asked about it four years ago, the last time Trump had a Birther spasm over a political opponent. If he’s agnostic now, why wasn’t he agnostic then? The difference this time, it’ll be argued, is that defending Cruz’s eligibility would involve him in a dispute in a Republican primary, which would provoke howls from Trump fans/Cruz opponents of establishment interference. But c’mon. No one seriously believes the RNC is putting a finger on the scale for Ted Cruz. On the contrary, Priebus’s “no comment” is itself being received as proof that the GOP establishment so loathes Cruz that they’d prefer to leave him under the cloud. That’s a form of interference too (although not necessarily to Cruz’s detriment, as he can cite this as the latest evidence that the “Washington cartel” is out to get him). At a bare minimum, in recognition of the fact that they really might be stuck with Cruz as nominee and in the name of tamping down fears of the chaos that would follow if Cruz was suddenly thrown off the ballot after voting began, the party’s chairman should be able to say that the GOP has every confidence that all of its candidates are eligible for the presidency. This isn’t a policy dispute, after all. This is a “does the GOP take the Constitution seriously enough not to nominate candidates who are barred by the Constitution?” dispute. The RNC really has no choice but to go all in on that.