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In recent days a fight has broken out between two of America’s biggest blowhards, Donald Trump and Arizona’s angry old man, John McCain — because this country is only big enough for one prima donna, dontcha know.

MCain complained to Ryan Lizza at the New Yorker that Donald Trump has “fired up the crazies” within the Republican Party. John McCain Has a Few Things to Say About Donald Trump. Apparently McCain was upset that “The Donald” is appealing to xenophobia and racism in the GOP crazy base.

Well it takes one to know one, Johnny boy.

This is the man who inflicted upon America the halfling governor of Alaska, the Quitta from Wasilla, Sarah Palin. And what was the role of Caribou Barbie during the 2008 campaign?

That’s right, to “fire up the crazies” in the GOP crazy base with her incoherent ramblings laced with dog whistle racism. This is where the “Tea Party” seeds were  first sown. The Racism Comes Bubbling Up From McCain’s Dogwhistle Campaign:

The video from that Sarah Palin rally in Ohio last week probably said it all — that not only are racists herding in John McCain’s direction, but that previously obscured racism among mainstream conservatives is now bubbling up at an increasing rate.

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I half-expected to hear the same thing from “Joe the Plumber” last week when it was pointed out to him that he would actually get a tax cut under Obama’s plan.

It’s clear that the campaign to defeat Barack Obama — which is what the McCain campaign has rapidly devolved into, ever since it became self-evident that McCain himself couldn’t give us a single good reason to vote for him, beyond his moose-in-the-headlights running mate — is in fact creating an environment in which these kinds of sentiments not only are encouraged, but are now considered normal.

Donald Trump is just an old male version of Sarah Palin with bad hair.

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The New Yorker cover pretty much captures what has happened since “The Donald” entered the GOP race a month ago — he has cleared out the pool. Cover Story: Barry Blitt’s “Belly Flop”.

The GOP establishment media insists that “The Donald” does not represent the views of  most Republicans, and that he is the flavor of the month who will fade quickly. The poll numbers are telling a different story.

Steve Benen looks at the polls released this week in New polling tells the GOP what it doesn’t want to hear:

It seems inevitable that Donald Trump’s standing in national polls will fade, but for now, that shift remains on the horizon. Politico reported overnight on the new Fox News poll:

Donald Trump leads all Republican presidential candidates for the GOP primary, according to a new Fox national poll of registered voters released Thursday.

Eighteen percent of GOP voters said they supported Trump, up 7 percent from last month and 15 percent from March.

Trailing Trump’s 18% support is Scott Walker, who’s in second with 15%, and Jeb Bush with 14%. No other candidate reached double digits in the Fox poll.

The results are roughly consistent with this week’s USA Today/Suffolk poll, which also found Trump leading, and which also showed Trump generating about the same amount of support as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul combined.

[Last week, Trump led the GOP field in the Economist/YouGov poll.]

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