Lots of demonizing, few solutions at RNC

Speakers at the Republican National Convention held last week in Cleveland, Ohio offered a great deal of fiery rhetoric, but very little in the way of solutions to the nation’s problems.
Former neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson linked Hillary Clinton to famed community organizer Saul Alinsky, who once offered measured praise of Lucifer in a book, to provide perspective on what type of president Clinton would be.
Clinton wrote her 1969 Wellesley undergraduate thesis on Alinsky in which she had “fundamental disagreements” with activist.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke as if he was prosecuting Clinton for her performance and character. The audience responded to his over-the-top antics with chants of “Lock her up.”
When convention speakers weren’t demonizing Clinton, they were demonizing President Barack Obama.
A few minutes after speaking on the first night of the convention, soap opera actor and underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr. told ABC News reporters that he “absolutely believes President Obama is a Muslim.”
The Republican Party should be embarrassed that a convention speaker continues to stoke conspiracy theories about the nation’s first African-American president. Not surprising, Trump has engaged in the same conspiracy theories in the past.
According to the Washington Post, polling has found more than 40 percent of Republican voters share Sabato’s belief.
An Associated Press report found even delegates are discouraged by what they describe as divisiveness and negativity at the Republican National Convention.
State Sen. Tom Davis told The Associated Press on Wednesday the convention was focusing too much on “demonizing” Hillary Clinton and not enough time discussing how it would heal the nation after a fracturing election season.
Talk radio host Bill Pickle expressed frustration at “name calling and childish behavior” among some speakers. Pickle said he had to walk away from vendors hawking materials using sexist slurs to describe Clinton.
What we have mainly learned from RNC speakers is that they don’t like Obama or Clinton. When it came to domestic and foreign policy little was offered but platitudes.
What we did not hear enough of was how Trump and the Republican Party would improve the nation.