While some liberals lament Hillary Clinton's inability to open up a consistent lead over Donald Trump and rightly blame it on her own deficiencies, others -- and, really, some of the same people -- can't comprehend why Trump hasn't cratered in the polls. It seems unreasonable, if not hypocritical, of people to lambaste "Lyin' Hillary" when Trump, depending on who interprets him, lies practically every time he opens his mouth. It's hard to dispute that Trump lies frequently, and I haven't really seen or heard his grass-roots defenders deny that he does. They may believe that his lies are of a different order than Clinton's. They may feel, whether any would dare admit it or not, that the sort of fibs Trump may indulge in are just part of competitive life, or even, as the mafiosi say, "just business." It's more likely that they just don't give a damn. While it's tempting to think of Trump supporters worshiping a whitewashed idol of a wise businessman -- you'd like to believe they're naive, delusional or just plain dumb -- they probably take a more warts-and-all approach. It wouldn't surprise me if many of them conceded that Donald Trump is, or can be at times, a dick. They might then go on to say that that's his virtue, or it's what we need right now. Our best analysis of this election may come from a twelve year old movie with puppets:
The only question is whether Trump really can get it up at his age and keep it up for four years. That's the medical report we need to see!
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Are you actually an adult? Wouldn't know it from your silly, infantile blatherings here. I guess you are getting worrird. Funny.
Perhaps I struck too close to home?
Yes, warts and all, tRump is still a better choice than Clinton. We've had 8 years of nothing, we can survive another 4 years of nothing. Meanwhile, I think if Clinton loses this one, the dems won't give her another run. So we can start 2020 with a clean slate.
The Democretins kowtowed to Swillary because she's the only one with any real name value they had that could run, despite all the drama over e-mails. Dumb Donald is treating his campaign like he's cutting WWE promos for his pal Vince McMahon, and wishing that McMahon, not Pence, would be his running mate. Then again, given McMahon's track record outside of WWE/F, that would doom Dumb Donald, wouldn't it now?
@Unknown, if you're a Trump and/or Clinton apologist, I can understand you not understanding what Sammy is saying. Now would be a good time for the 3rd party candidates to be admitted to the debates, but the media doesn't want them, for fear that they could distract from the circus atmosphere Dumb Donald & Swillary bring.
And if Dumb Donald has a problem with the moderators assigned to the debates, maybe he should give Vince a call........
Hobby, you've really got to let go of this Vince McMahon obsession.
Anon, you imply that Clinton is worse than nothing and that Trump won't be. Obviously a lot of people don't agree with the second premise, which unfortunately leads them to reject the first. I actually think Trump could turn that around by challenging people to explain why they fear him so much. "What are you afraid of?" might be more effective than "What have you got to lose?" -- so long as he doesn't assume that his opponents are simply afraid of "getting what they deserve."
For me it isn't so much a contest between tRump and Clinton. It's a contest between accepting open and brazen corruption and cronyism and not accepting open corruption and cronyism; of accepting the "I'm not responsible for what happened in my department while I was boss" attitude of Clinton and the "You're fired for being incompetent attitude of tRump; between "I'm going to use a private server so I can circumvent freedom of information requests because I shouldn't be held accountable to the peasants." attitude of Clinton compared to whatever tRump brings to the table.
I'm not saying "Clinton is worse than nothing". What I'm saying - and have been saying - is that tRump is NOT supported by the currently-sitting politicians of his own party nor by any democrat in office. So any "damage" he can do to the country will be minimized by an obstructionist congress. Whereas, at the very least, Clinton will continue to use public office - and will most likely base her public policies - on who donates money to the Clinton Retirement Fund (aka "the clinton foundation"), and, given her political history, will refuse to take any responsibility for mistakes made by her regime.
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