Trump's Honest Attacks on the Bushes at the Grand Guignol Greenville Cage Match Expose a Curious Trait of the Southern Psyche, and May Portend Trouble for The Donald

Fiddle dee dumb! Hush, Hush Mean Donald!

Only a moron, a donor, or a Bush would love another Bush presidency.  This isn't about South Carolinians in denial either.  It's about "honor," and that is something every neocon[federate] South Carolinian takes very seriously.

But first, there is a little noticed thing about these debates, or cage matches if you prefer, that perfectly explain the Bush family, and why JEB! is making his doomed and vainglorious run.

They all offer "spin rooms" afterwards where the candidates go to meet the press and "spin" their performances. Trump goes to every one of them. Kasich goes. Dr. Carson is a regular. Almost every candidate probably has been in one sometime.  But one has never been.  That would be the Crown Prince John Ellis Bush. He always sends a retainer.  Spinning, like every other candidate's presidential qualities, is in the mind of a Bush, simply beneath them. Just like push polling and other nasty stuff.  Someone else has to do that for them.

Last night it was Senator Lindsey Graham, moon-eyed and gushing like a debutante at her Cotton Ball cotillion. And then it was former Senator Norm Coleman, who had the distinction of being voted out of office, and replaced by a stand up and late night TV comedian.

That was fitting because the royal blood had just been spilled yet again by TV's number one reality show comic demagogue, which bring us back to Trump and honor. 

Trump's overt attacks on W. Bush and his many incompetencies, and JEB!'s pitiful fall back to his mother and "family" is not going to impress South Carolina.  If you are not a Southern you don't understand.  Most Americans, even if they don't respect Donald Trump (and he is anything but respectable) admire grit. Donald is full of BS, but it takes real guts, even if you are a fraud otherwise, to stand up in a room full of Bush/Rubio donors and neocons loudly booing you on national television, and tell them W. was a liar about WMD (meaning they cooked the proof), remind them Bush was president when 911 happened, and that the Iraq war was a disaster from the day it started.

All those people in South Carolina, both in the hall and all over the state who voted for George W. Bush twice, probably understand that what Trump says is true, but they even more still think it proper to respect W. in public. It is simply the honorable thing to do in their minds.  And it also allows them to avoid making an uncomfortable admission of their own past bad political judgement. 

Trump had good success with the Yankees of New Hampshire, where his loud and brash New York style is admired, but Trump ran into trouble with the "Iowa nice" voters, and he may find himself in trouble with the gentility of Southern voters because of his brazen attacks on the Bushes. Southerners lock their idiots in the attic, they don't parade them around in public.  Which is why these same Southerners will smile and cheer for George W. Bush and his service to the country when he goes on parade in Dixie next week for JEB!, and then they will turn right around and quietly and privately show their fury at JEB! for his unseemly use of his "idiot" brother when they go vote next Saturday.