Distancing One's Self From Duke

DAVID DUKE hasn't been heard from for a while, on the national stage. You'll remember he's the KKK dude who was most vociferous in the nineteen eighties, then went quiet as the hounds of liberalism and political correctness descended upon him. Now he's baaack, endorsing Donald Trump for president. Dude was probably attracted to the Donald due to Trump's vision of a great wall of America along the Rio Grande, bought and paid for with Mexican pecos. Trump knows how to please, knows the secert to politics; no matter how crazy your platform planks, somebody's gonna be attracted to them. Now, republican presidential candidates Cruz and Rubio and the democrats, perhaps feeling a bit desperate, are attacking Trump all over the place, accusing him of failing to distance himself rapidly enough from Duke's endorsement. Trump explained that he is in fact perfectly willing, able, and ready to disavow anyone, at anytime, and is there any reason why we shouldn't believe him? Does anyone seriously believe that someone, anyone running for president, including Donald Trump, would subscribe to KKK views? Let's be reasonable. The people who don't want Trump to be president are desperate, willing to do or say anything to defeat him. He disavowed Duke, just not fast or loud enough, it seems. The lesson: when running away from a poisonous political endorsement, run fast. Ironic is the fact that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are both the type who, but a generation or two ago, might well have welcomed an endorsement from an unrepentant bigot such as David duke, but, in our modern politically correct, ostensibly non racist times, its a non starter. One must choose one's endorsements discreetly. Conservative politics have evolved toward deceny, at least marginally, and that perhaps is the greatest endorsement of all.