Actually saw some of the
debate last night – embarrassing – two awful candidates – Trump rambles to the
point of sounding incoherent – can’t go into details about anything I’m
assuming because his understanding of what he’s talking about is superficial –
Hillary opens the door repeatedly for attack and he fumbles again I think
because he has no deep understanding of anything which is why he always sounds
like he’s winging it. I missed the email discussion but have heard others say
he nailed her there – maybe – he did get off a few good ‘zingers’ that will no
doubt thrill his followers – his line about Hillary blaming her lies on Lincoln
was pretty good – but his clear inability to go into depth about anything it
seems is disturbing. Will his performance help him? It seems impossible his
poll numbers go up – unless Hillary is such a hated politician that people give
him points for taking it to her even if it was done incompetently. Still, the
video will so damage his already bad standing with women that there just simply
isn’t enough angry white men out there to compensate for it – and so the only
way he can win is if Putin really is sitting on a very nasty surprise for
Hillary which will hurt turnout for her.
As for Clinton – she may know
more about ‘stuff’ than Trump, but her ideas are all bad – and she’s horrible
talking about those ideas – boring, really struggles getting to the key point
she wants to make – always sounds insincere – no charm whatsoever – and really
is weak trying to skirt her and Obama’s many flaws and mistakes – the canned
answers are just painful to listen to – on Syria she was awful but because
Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about there he couldn’t take advantage of
it. Did Obamacare come up? Hillary and the Obama years are such target rich
environments for anybody wanting to paint a picture of the awful consequences
of liberal policy there’s no way she should be walking out of that place
last night with anyone thinking she won. Yet I bet a lot of people did. It
should have been like the first Romney/Obama debate where even Dear Leader’s
most devout fans understood that he’d lost – but then Romney can do smart so,
ya know, that helps.
It’s just embarrassing that
our choice is between these two thoroughly uninspiring people. I guess the only
thing left to hope for is that Republicans keep control of House and by some
miracle the Senate too.
