Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz’s Father of Plotting J.F.K.’s Assassination

Look, I am running out of ways to express how insane this Republican nominating process has been. On one side, you have Donald Trump, who is basically the evil rich guy in every movie where the kids have to band together to put on a show to save the rec center/old school/grandma's house/etc. On the other, you have Ted Cruz, who is a bigoted religious zealot who, despite all worldly logic, might just be the Zodiac Killer. It's nuts that this is who Republicans have to choose between at this point. And it got a little crazier this morning when Donald Trump accused Ted Cruz's father of planning the J.F.K. assassination.

Lest you think Trump is the only one getting a little out there, Ted Cruz turned around and hit Trump for having had venereal diseases.

"Donald Trump is a serial philanderer and he boasts about it. I want everyone to think about your teen aged kids. The President of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery, how proud he is. [He] describes his battle with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam. That’s a quote, by the way, on the Howard Stern show. Do you want to spend the next five years with your kids bragging about infidelity? Now what does he do? He does the same projection, just like a pathological liar. He accuses everyone about lying."

I mean, this is getting crazy. We're not far removed from a debate that looks something like:

TRUMP: Your dad killed J.F.K.!
CRUZ: You have venereal diseases!
TRUMP: You're a secret Lizard Person!
CRUZ: The Freemasons caused 9/11 and you're a Freemason!
TRUMP: You faked the moon landing!
CRUZ: You and Hillary Clinton are having an affair!
TRUMP: You were behind Benghazi!
CRUZ: You killed Tupac!
TRUMP: You killed Biggie!
CRUZ: You're a witch! Burn him at the stake!
TRUMP: You're the Zodiac Killer!

Of course, what's craziest about this is that the first two exchanges of that dialogue actually are things that happened in reality. As Donald Trump would say: Sad!