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It’s too funny to see the Republican candidates tearing at each other like crazed ferrets on bath salts. If Donald Trump achieves nothing else with his gonzo campaign, he’ll have done serious, lasting damage to the image of the Republican Party.

The video above shows Rand Paul trying to get a little bit of oxygen for his campaign, attacking Trump as a fake conservative, the favorite tactic of the right for many years. But Trump’s comeback was swift and brutal. Rand Paul is just out of his league trying to do the dozens with the Donald.

Trump’s response:

Rand Paul is doing so poorly in the polls he has to revert to old footage of me discussing positions I no longer hold. As a world-class businessman, who built one of the great companies with some of the most iconic real estate assets in the world, it was my obligation to my family, my company, my employees and myself to maintain a strong relationship with all politicians whether Republican or Democrat. I did that and I did that well.

Unless you are a piece of unyielding granite, over the years positions evolve as they have in my case. Ronald Reagan, as an example, was a Democrat with a liberal bent who became a conservative Republican.

Recently, Rand Paul called me and asked me to play golf. I easily beat him on the golf course and will even more easily beat him now, in the world in the politics.

Senator Paul does not mention that after trouncing him in golf I made a significant donation to the eye center with which he is affiliated.

I feel sorry for the great people of Kentucky who are being used as a back up to Senator Paul’s hopeless attempt to become President of the United States—- weak on the military, Israel, the Vets and many other issues. Senator Paul has no chance of wining the nomination and the people of Kentucky should not allow him the privilege of remaining their Senator. Rand should save his lobbyist’s and special interest money and just go quietly home.

Rand’s campaign is a total mess, and as a matter of fact, I didn’t know he had anybody left in his campaign to make commercials who are not currently under indictment!

That, dear readers, is what is known as a sick GOP burn.

Donald Trump’s entire campaign has been carefully calculated to appeal to the totally deranged right wing base. He bailed out in the last election because he realized the base wasn’t sufficiently out of their gourds yet.

But after three more years of non-stop hate speech and incitement by the entire Republican machine, Trump has stepped in and used it to his benefit in a way that no other candidate will — because they’re all still trying to mask the craziness as reasonable political positions. Trump just threw all that pretense out the window and went for the jugular.