Edward Morrissey used to have a blog called Captain's Quarters. I liked it and read it often. But here he is now saying junk like this:
...then fumbled an abortion question in a manner not seen since Todd Akin, saying he would punish women who had an abortion, prompting pro-life groups around the country to denounce Trump.
Trump didn't say that he would punish women who had an abortion. The hypothetical question was posed about an anti-abortion law being passed, and he agreed that in such a scenario that punishment would have to occur if such a law were to be passed. Is Morrissey too dense to understand the difference between what would happen in a hypothetical scenario, and one in which Trump would seek to put into place as government policy? Surely he is not that dense. Or is he dense at all?
The way he poses this makes it look like Trump wants to punish women for having abortions. Contrast this to what the Cruz campaign was saying in attacking Trump for supporting abortion twenty years ago. Neither of these statements are right. Neither could be right simultaneously. He cannot be a pro-life zealot and a pro-abortion zealot at the same time. But that is what his critics were attempting to get people to believe. And it worked. They managed to get everybody mad at him for what he didn't say.
Trump's statements are being distorted, and I suspect that this is intentional. There is a word for this-- lying.
He then goes on to blame Trump for demolishing his own support. No. That's not what happened. His support was demolished by a non-stop anti-Trump bash-a-thon.
Capt. Ed, I hardly knew ye. You never know about people.
I read this article expecting that he would warn the GOP about what they just did to Trump. Silly me.
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