Squirrel-Hair once again shows how unfit he is to be president

Michael Tanner has a piece at NRO today that summarizes pretty well the litany of daunting - make that hair-raising -  challenges facing the person who takes the oath of office as president next January: the return of rising deficits, the "A"CA's slow-drip failure, slow economic growth and too few jobs, an increasingly dangerous world stage, the dilemma of how to protect American freedom while gathering the intelligence we need to stay on top of the dangers, and a fractured post-American populace.

It's his last couple of paragraphs, though, that one ought to keep in mind as one encounters the daily twists and turns of the campaign trail from here to November:

Dealing with these challenges would be difficult for any president. And the candidates we currently are watching offer little reason for confidence that whoever is elected this November will be up to the task. But, if the new president isn’t, this country will be left weaker, poorer, and more divided than we already are. Yes, things could actually get worse.  

Every four years, someone tells us that “This might be the most important election of our lifetime.” This time it might be true. When we step into that voting booth, whether for the remaining primaries or in November, we should be asking whether the candidate we are intending to vote for is really up to the challenge. 

For instance, consider Squirrel-Hair's reaction to a political ad created by operative Liz Mair, whose principles are sound but who prides herself on being a bit over the top.

Short version: Make America Awesome created an anti-Trump ad which featured a nude pic from a modeling gig (link here) done by Donald’s Trump current wife* – said pic was used in a Facebook ad targeting Mormons in Utah – and for some reason Donald Trump was inexplicably not pleased that such a vital ingredient of his own self-image was being used against him in such a mocking fashion. And what does Donald Trump do when that happens?  Why, he lashes out.  And he lashed out at Ted Cruz, apparently, with a threat of blackmail:

That’s a screenshot because, as Politico has noted, Trump’s already deleted the tweet once. [UPDATE: Trump reposted the Tweet] Cruz, by the way, is just a little bit contemptous towards Trump on the subject, because, again, Trump knows perfectly well that the ad didn’t come from Cruz.

Ted then tweeted: "Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought."

Quite so.

In the course of perusing the latest from the pundit-sphere this morning, I came across a piece at The Federalist, for the most part a great site, that was so stupid I'm not going to even link to it. It was by D.C. McAllister, and the gist of it was that it's time for the anti-Trump forces to realize that they are about to kill the Republican party, and that they need to unify behind Squirrel-Hair and focus on the real enemy, the Left.

She has the second part of that right, but she could not be more wrong about the first component of her formulation. We need to unify behind Ted Cruz, the only distinguished, principled grownup on either side in this entire race.

Donald Trump is unfit to be president. There is no saying that enough.