Yeah, and should we try to be friends with Bush like Ellen?
John McCain was a warmonger and one of the Keating Five. I don't think he deserves a ton of credit for telling a racist white lady that Obama is not a Muslim. Democrats were swooning over him back when the "Straight-Talk Express" challenged Bush for the Republican nomination. He has principles, but so does John Bolton.
Mitt Romney's an opportunist, and phonier than Trump in some ways. He refused to release his tax returns. He was all too willing to bend the knee to be Secretary of State.
The problem with Trump is that he's uniquely vulgar, clueless, and corrupt, but what has he done in terms of policy? Like Bush, his incompetence is self-limiting. So far he's managed to avoid starting major wars. He's run-up the deficit, but that's standard operating procedure. He's been riding the anti-immigration wave (he didn't start it). As so often noted, Trump's a symptom. Any other Republican would have appointed the same judges and rolled back the same regulations. We wouldn't have gotten the anti-trade stuff with another Republican, but if Ted Cruz were president, people here would say Trump would've been better.
