[TheRealThing]

Reportedly over 70 'top' Republicans have signed on to a letter addressed to RNC Chair Reince Priebus asking him to withdraw any further funding to Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump. In reading the letter, it becomes clear the concerns are based largely on politically correct faux-pas, along with talking point criticisms generated by the left. In any case no matter how effective it turns out to be, the letter demonstrates the level of desperation to which Trump opponents have sunken, and is a historical rehash of a dirty trick perpetrated against Bob Dole. Funding was pulled by the party after the dog piling got bad enough during his campaign back in 1996. Ironically as we recently saw, though spurned by his own party in a similarly treacherous manner, and at the behest of the establishment elites, Dole initially did his best to torpedo the Trump nomination early on. Though his official endorsement did follow later.

And, of those so-called 70 top Republicans, the big guns among the signers are; former Sen. Gordon Humphrey, age 76 of New Hampshire, and former Reps. Chris Shays age 73 of Connecticut, Tom Coleman age 73 of Missouri and the spring chicken in the group of former congressmen is Vin Weber age 64 of Minnesota. All but one of these former congressmen left public service by '93, Vin Weber served most recently in '09. I can't say I remember any of them though. Kind of sets the bar for achieving the notoriety for being named a top Republican pretty low from where I sit.

The rest of the top Republicans are staffers and such, mostly from days gone by. The point is they're all bought and sold very low profile establishment types who have generally opposed the Trump nomination from the start. Imagine how tore up they'd all be if Trump was under investigation by the FBI, or if any of the various Congressional committees that have investigated his opponent, were investigating him? Not to mention the associated scandals. If I didn't know better, in reading the headlines I might have been worried the letter had been sent by Paul Ryan and had signatures of 70 sitting congressional big wigs affixed.

The Trump dog piling from both sides has taken on a life of it's own. What a tsunami of lies we are seeing. That said, Trump has supplied his opponents with the necessary fodder with which to assault him, with a least a shred of credibility. The aside with regard to Hillary and the NRA though tongue in cheek, was enough to unseat him yet again from the headlines and support that his economic speech should have afforded him. There is a big difference between the board room and the national political stage. And it isn't that Trump's contemporaries have not made equally unacceptable comments, they just don't get caught that much and if they do, the in-the-tank media just ignore it.