October 16, 2016 10:06 AM UTC

Darryl Glenn: The Full Circle of Asinine

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• by: Colorado Pols

CNN reports–GOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn, after joining the chorus of Republicans calling for Donald Trump to withdraw from the presidential race, then declaring he would not even vote for Trump, then claiming to have been sufficiently impressed by Trump’s second debate performance to be “reconsidering,” then saying in a debate last week that his Trump endorsement was “suspended,” is now as of this weekend back on the “Trump Train.”

Sort of:

One week after calling on Donald Trump to step aside as the Republican nominee, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado now says he will vote for him on Election Day, according to audio obtained by CNN’s KFile.

Darryl Glenn, who is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, issued a statement when news broke of Trump’s lewd comments on a 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape, calling on Trump to voluntarily step aside and saying the GOP nominee was “simply disqualified from being Commander-in-Chief.”

A week later, however, Glenn now says he’ll vote for Trump but still doesn’t endorse him…

“So where I’m at right now is that I absolutely will be supporting the Republican platform and voting for Mr. Trump,” Glenn said. “I will not be personally endorsing Mr. Trump and there is a clear distinction. When I personally endorse you that means I know your heart, I know your character and I can personally attest to that and I can not. If that changes we can revisit that, when it comes to evaluating the policies of what we’re going to be able to do with regard to weighing the Republican policy platform versus the Democrats, it is not even a choice. I will be voting for the Republican ticket and Republican candidates.”

Here’s the tl;dr version: Darryl Glenn is all over the map on Trump, and his multiple flip-flops in the space of a week are a metaphor for the whole Republican Party’s convulsions ahead of an increasingly likely Election Day bloodbath. Instead of elevating himself above Trump’s offenses, Glenn has completely impaled himself on them, and made Republicans everywhere look like fools by proxy.

As for Glenn personally it really doesn’t matter much, because he was going to lose by a mile anyway.