You make your bed…

Yes, I’m getting into politics again.

Run for the hills.

For those still left, the situation with Donald Trump is perhaps one of the more fascinating to come around in recent times.

Terrifying, I’ll grant you, but fascinating nonetheless.

There were many, IMHO, highlights in the Democratic Convention from last week, from the emotional and beautiful Michele Obama speech to Cathy Giffords.  But there was one speech that reverberated above almost all others, that of Khirz Khan and his wife, who lost their son back in 2004 while serving in Iraq…

Bizarrely, or, sadly, perhaps expectedly, Donald Trump went after Mr. Khan and his wife.  Thus far (its Monday, August 1st), he hasn’t backed down.

However, as I said above, that is to be expected.  If nothing else, Mr. Trump is an attacker.  He will attack anyone that tries/dares to go after him in any way.  Many of these attacks helped him win the primaries, especially the way he brilliantly took down party favorite Jeb Bush by calling him “low energy”.

However, we’ve now moved beyond the primaries and, as is often the case, when you move past the party’s most faithful and start to the address the country in general, things that may work on the smaller scale can certainly malfunction on a larger one.

It appears this may well be happening to Mr. Trump.

Suddenly, he has to answer questions regarding the world in general and, at least so far, his “answers” regarding, in particular, Russia, have been troublesome.  Further, while Ms. Clinton is certainly a prime target to fight, going after people like the Khans is beyond the pale.

Sadly, many “big” names in the Republican Party have been very reticent to criticize Mr. Trump’s more outlandish comments.  While Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan criticized Mr. Trump’s comments, they did so without mentioning the highly important fact that they came from him.  Which gets those cynical with politics in general shaking their heads.

The Republicans (and Democrats in their own way) look after their own, even if they have to hold their nose while doing so.

All is not lost, however.  This morning, John McCain becomes the first high level Republican office holder to not only criticize the comments of Mr. Trump, he mentions him by name:

John McCain: Donald Trump defamed Khan, does not represent GOP