These candidates proclaim their contempt for ObamaCare, but what do they offer to replace it? Nothing. They offer derision for diplomacy that attempts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons through negotiations, but what do they suggest instead? Little except overheated rhetoric that makes the GOP look like a war party in search of a new war — a war that could be prevented by an agreement they oppose even before it is concluded.

Creating jobs? Increasing wages? Reforming immigration? Because Republicans can agree on nothing beyond platitudes, slogans and bromides, they regale their adherents with recycled rhetoric about their dislike of Hillary Clinton, their contempt for Hillary Clinton, their accusations against Hillary Clinton. They lead a party that looks like little more than an angry partisan mob that despises a woman they present as a disfigured fabrication that bears no resemblance to the real person they are determined to destroy.

When the latest GOP champion in this two-year political offensive, Peter Schweizer, who appears to be running a conservative-financed oppo-research operation in the guise of a book, appeared on the “Today” show, he even admitted to Savannah Guthrie that his book proves no wrongdoing by the Clintons! He calls for more investigations of the wrongdoing his book fails to prove and then bears false witness by telling Guthrie his motive is not to defeat Hillary Clinton!