Polls are narrowing – not because people are warming to
Trump but because the awfulness of Clinton seeps deeper and deeper into the electorate’s
consciousness. The FBI released transcript of her interview and we learn she
told a bold faced lie to them by claiming an inability to recognize classified
markings on documents even though she was Secretary of State and before that
sat on the Senate Armed Services committee and therefore would have spent a
good part of a decade handling classified material on a near daily basis – and
we learn she told a whopper to the American people last year by stating she was
committed to handing over all her emails when in fact she was already at the
time of that statement engaged in a frantic effort to scrub her server clean of
as many of those emails as she could.
Ya know, if Trump could stay on message and that message was
what a corrupt and dishonest member of the haughty, entitled liberal elite
Hillary is, it would still be a long shot given how electoral college math so
favors the democrats – but he’d have a shot. Of course, Trump seems incapable
of or uninterested in running a professional campaign, so I don’t see how you
overcome the root problem of Trump being Trump. And then, as said before,
there’s the debates, a minefield Trump has no choice but to cross – I don’t see
him making it.
It becomes clearer and clearer just how winnable an election
this was if only the republicans had nominated virtually anyone other than Trump [well, Carson I think would have been just
as much a disaster and Cruz would have struggled to overcome his off-putting style]. I’m still of the opinion that
the best option out there scenario wise might be, absurd as it sounds, Trump
wins the election and then ‘retires’ soon after his inauguration. I mean, think
about it – he’s 70 years old, rich, has no true political convictions and seems
to be quite lazy when it comes to learning stuff – aside from the ego boost,
why would he want to be president? He may want to win – but I’m convinced he
has little interest in actually doing the job.
If I’m right and Trump manages to win, what that will say
about the state of our democracy will definitely not amount to a cheerful
thumbs up. We will have suffered through a corrupt, sexual predator president
in Clinton, a decent man who was for the most part a misguided failure as
president in Bush, an absolutely awful, ruinous president in Obama, and a
president who wasn’t and never intended to be a president in Trump. Not good. The
democratic process is so ‘challenged’ at the moment we’d almost be better
served by simply pulling a name from a hat.
