GOP, party of failure to take responsibility, party of lies, party of hypocrisy and double standards

Melania Trump plagiarized First Lady Michele Obama.  She never owned that she copied the words of the first lady.

Melania Trump, as represented by the campaign, tried to deny that any plagiarism took place in spite of the obvious. We are left to believe that the first-lady-wannabe is either incapable of honesty or is too controlled by her husband to function in the White House. First ladies have to have a mind, one that works, not be a puppet.

Then Melania Trump and the campaign to which she belonged tried a couple of other dodgy moves; Snopes busted one, the claim that Michele Obama had been the plagiarist, from a book that does not contain the words she wrote. 

I suppose when you are either too lazy and dishonest, or too incompetent, you don't know or care about checking to see if you are stealing the intellectual property of someone else, for your own purpose.  I would classify making false claims about a dead author as an example.

Then there was the rubbish line that the content of Michele Obama's speech was derived from and of the same caliber and substance as My Little Pony,  -- except when the stolen words were uttered by Melania Trump. 

You have to be pretty low to try to scapegoat a cartoon pony.

Do we really want a woman who supposedly relies on a cartoon character for the content of a major speech to be in any position of responsibility? Does anyone believe that a woman who worked her way through college, including Harvard Law, rely on plagiarizing My Little Pony for the substance of her speech?  Hint -- the Michele Obama speech was made in 2008; the latest My Little Pony series, in which the words in question occurred, debuted in 2010.

Who knows what kind of person Melania Trump is when not in the shadow of her asshole husband; having married him does not reflect well on her abilities, nor does her past as a soft-core porn model, nor does her LYING at the RNC convention and elsewhere about her background.  The woman dropped out of an eastern European college of dubious quality without completing her freshman year.  But she claimed - and still apparently claims - to have a degree in Architecture and Design, from an unspecified institution of higher education.

And now the GOP and RNC are complicit in trying to lie to the American electorate, because there appears to be no lie for which the right will require accountability even for the most deliberate falsehood.  From the HuffPo:

Melania Trump’s professional biography says the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump began modeling at age 16, but she only began working full-time after obtaining a degree. She graduated “in design and architecture at University in Slovenia,” according to the bio as of Monday night:

Also from the HuffPo, but a story carried by some right wing media as well:

Slovenian journalists Bojan Pozar and Igor Omerza wrote in their biography on the former fashion model that she “became ― and remained ― a college dropout” after leaving the University of Ljubljana’s architecture school following her freshman year.

...Later, in America, after meeting Donald Trump and officially becoming his partner, Melania Knauss told the media that she got her degree in architecture and design. This was almost certainly done in consultation with Trump and his advisors, as they were desperate to give off the impression that the Slovenian model was not just beautiful, but also smart and well-educated.

It is no accident that conservatives believe lies, lies they know to be falsehoods, but which cater to their sad, sick, disconnected world view that hates and deceives and fails. It fails because lies don't work, lies never succeed in the long run.

It is not so much that the egregious lies from Melania Trump disqualify her from the ranks of women like Michele Obama or Jackie Kennedy.  It is that there are far worse lies told and lived by Donald Trump and the Republican party, welcomed and consumed, embraced by the dishonest right wingers who endanger our country with their failed values and dishonesty, bigotry, and hypocrisy.

The right should be ashamed, but that would require honesty and morality.  They have neither, and apparently they have repudiated any semblance of intellect as well.