What does it say about the Republican party that it has nominated a creature for president who exhibits many signs of being mentally ill?  If he was standing in a street corner, wearing rags and shouting at traffic, most people would know what the problem was. But dress him up, put him in a $10,000 suit wearing the fur of some strange animal on his head, and despite all the bizarre remarks, his endless repetition, the ritualized hand gestures, the distorted facial expressions, the grunts, the prodigious narcissism, and that passes for sanity amongst the field of 17 mostly pathetic aspirants to the presidency.