re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The GOP had a chance to distance themselves from Teh Crayzee some years ago fut failed to do so for fear of alienating their “base”. That simply started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom to see who can come up with the most ZOMGoutrageousest nonsense, as long as it was seen as anti-Obama or anti-Democrat.
And we are a long way from hitting bottom here…
My experience has been when witnessing a race to the bottom the bottom is never found.