Donald Trump's answers on the Today Show this morning are causing anxiety attacks among the conservatives.

If @Caitlyn_Jenner walked into Trump Tower, what bathroom would @RealDonaldTrump suggest she use? #TrumpTODAY https://t.co/E6jLyif6ls

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 21, 2016

And that's not all, check this our courtesy of Today:

Q: Would you want to change the Republican platform so that exceptions would be made on abortions in the case of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother? 

A: "Absolutely, for the three exceptions, I would," he said. Trump was then pressed further and asked if he would make an exception to protect the "health" of the mother. "I would leave it for the life of the mother, but I would absolutely have the three exceptions." 

Q: Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy? 

A: "I do, I do, including myself. I do."

Somewhere Grover Nordquist is banging his head against the wall and screaming into his hand.

As for Trump's idea of changing the GOP platform on abortion, well that has certain groups pulling out their hair also: 

“The Republican Platform has always been solidly pro-life even when Republican candidates have not been,” said Vice President of March for Life Tom McClusky. “The Platform sets the standard that all candidates need to work from,” he said, and noted that suggesting the party weaken its position on the abortion issue “would set back years of hard work” for the movement.

I think we can all count on Donald Trump moving much more toward the center once he wins the nomination, and that should cause those of us on the Left more than a little concern.

After all Trump was also against the Iraq War while Hillary voted for it, and like Bernie Sanders he is also not a huge fan of trade deals, which Clinton has also approved.

In short Trump could very well find more support with the independents than many of us might like to believe.

Of course he is completely full of shit and is in actuality a megalomaniacal lunatic who should be kept as far away from the White House as humanly possible.  Which is something that I think we need to keep reminding people about.

Bill Maher mocks new female sex pill and tells Josh Duggar that he doesn't have an addiction he is "just horny."

Courtesy of Mediaite:

From a pill that makes women feel like they have a “sexual desire disorder” to religion telling people they’re having too much sex, Maher said that maybe everyone should just chill out and be okay with everyone’s own sexual choices without judging them. 

He mocked Duggar for going to rehab after it was discovered he had two Ashley Madison accounts, explaining that he doesn’t have a addiction, “you’re just horny!”

My favorite line: "Josh of course is one  of the nineteen Duggar children from that horrific reality show, And as a professional Christian he'd been getting paid to preach about only using his penis to procreate with his God sanctioned spousal vessel."

I almost missed this but apparently Bristol Palin (Nancy French) claimed that she was NOT duped by that ESPN award hoax.

First off for all of those who may not remember this, here is the post I wrote about Bristol's ghostwriter falling for the hoax.

However according to a post that came out later that same day there was a denial that Bristol aka Nancy was stupid enough to get duped.

In fact it was titled "Dear Liberal Media, I Didn’t Get Duped by the Noah Galloway/Caitlyn Jenner ESPY Controversy."  

Here’s the thing. I didn’t get “duped.” I know that ESPN did not publish who was considered and rejected for the award. But it is certainly obvious that Noah Galloway and Lauren Hill did not receive the award. 

Neither did any of the other athletes who deserved the award far more than Caitlyn Jenner. 

That’s all I’m saying. 

The so-called “hoax” was that he was perhaps “runner up.” Who cares? I never said he was the runner up. 

I’ll make it easy on you. Here are the two options: 

1. He was either considered and rejected 

2. Or — worse — not considered at all. 

The only hoax is the media’s weird inability to see the truth.

You know I am willing to give Bristol the benefit of the doubt. I think it is very likely that SHE was not duped by the story. 

The reason I say that is because it is more than likely that since Bristol did not write that post that she also may not have even known about the hoax.

After all Bristol had only arrived back in Wasilla two days earlier, and was apparently catching up on her sleep.

However Nancy French is another matter altogether.

You see in the post where she was impersonating Bristol Palin she also linked to HER post, the title of which was "ESPN Gave the “Courage Award” to Caitlyn Jenner Instead of Iraq War Vet and Amputee Noah Galloway."

And that post linked to her husband David French's post entitled " Yes, ESPN Did Pick Caitlyn Jenner Ahead of Iraq War Vet and Amputee Noah Galloway for the ESPY Courage Awar."

In his post Mr. French acknowledges that there was an internet hoax, whereas Nancy does not in hers, and certainly does not mention the hoax in Bristol's blog post.

Now here's the question. If they had not read, and at least briefly believed, the hoax about Noah Galloway having been a runner up to receive the award, why would they have even brought up his name?

I mean there are numerous athletes, ex-servicemen, and amputees who are certainly worthy of recognition. But for some reason all three blog posts centered on the one guy that had been referred to first by a Boston radio personality...

Caitlyn Jenner wins Arthur Ashe Courage Award. And the runner-up is .... pic.twitter.com/DKUdnPT8Gx

— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) June 1, 2015

...and then later had become the center of a controversy that evolved into conservative outrage over what they perceived as a slight directed toward the military.

You know what I think?

I think that both Nancy French and her husband fell for the story hook line, and sinker, and wrote about it with righteous indignation.

Then I think they later realized they had been duped and edited their blog posts so it looked like they knew it was a hoax all along. However unfortunately for them Bristol's post had already received national attention so Nancy was forced to leave it intact and then come back later and deny, deny, deny.

Hey all bloggers make the occasional mistake. But some of us, well some of us can admit them.

Bristol Palin's ghostwriter falls for internet prank, makes her employer's daughter a laughingstock. Again.

Yesterday after linking to her own blog post, which linked to her husband's blog post, which suggested that Iraq war veteran and double amputee Noah Galloway had been the runner up to an award being presented to Caitlin Jenner, Nancy French wrote this on Bristol's blog: 

Isn’t that crazy!!! I hate how everything in this liberal world is, “Oh equality for all, but not if you don’t agree with us!” 

 I hate, for example, how Tim Tebow is SOOO mocked for being a Christian!!!! If anyone says they don’t believe in gay marriage, they’re cursed. Here’s the thing. Caitliyn (Oops added an unnecessary "i") Jenner looks great! I don’t care what people do… honestly I have gay friends (Sure you do.), but it drives me crazy that people like Noah don’t get recognized for sacrificing their LIFE for our country, while being gay/transgender makes you a hero. 

But shouldn’t we let everyone have their own opinions? Without restrictions on them? 

We have way too many hypocrites.

The problem (Well one of the problems) is that the story of Noah Galloway being a runner up for the  Arthur Ashe Courage Award is a hoax:

Awkward. Like thousands of other Internet users, Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, just got duped. There’s a popular rumor circulating around the Internet that U.S. Army veteran and double amputee Noah Galloway lost the Courage Award to former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, but it’s just a hoax. Despite being debunked numerous times, Palin failed to do a simple Google search and wrote an ill-informed blog post about the rumor.

Snopes has all of the details about how this hoax got started right here.

Look I get it, conservatives are itching to go after Caitlyn Jenner, but they know that if they do they will get all kinds of flack. So when it looks like there might be an avenue of attack that is based on the snubbing of an Iraq war veteran and NOT on the fact that Jenner makes a more attractive woman than most of them or gives them a confusing boner, how can they be expected to resist?

However if I were Sarah Palin, and I were paying good SarahPAC money to this ghostwriter to make my daughter look like something besides a whiskey soaked floozy who could not string a coherent sentence together at gun point, I would be extremely angry that she did not do a little research before buying into a hoax that only attracts even more ridicule for her and the family.

After all, they really don't need any help in that department.