Some of you guys at Atlas seem to lack perspective sometimes. Trump is a terrible candidate, but polling wise there have been worse. And I love Hillary but I fear some of her baggage could come back to haunt her. Trump's Campaign is in trouble, but you'd have to be short sighted to think replacing him would be an option at this point.
I have never felt so lousy about a Presidential race in my entire life. Many folks feel the same way, which is why nothing would surprise me.
If the election were held today, I would not vote for Donald Trump.
The controversy over Mr. Khan doesn't bother me. Mr. Khan is a Gold Star Father who injected that status into partisan politics, and he reaped the Trump Maelstrom. I think a lot of folks (including a lot of Republicans) have piled on because they've wanted a "real Republican". And Mr. Khan may be well on the way to what he really wanted, which was for Trump to go down and not get back up, so he's looking like a winner in this deal, whether he deserves to be or not.
Trump handled the situation by ramping up the chaos in ways that were unavoidable. The worst (but not the only) thing was lending support to Paul Ryan's primary challenger, after Ryan gave him a rather mild rebuke over the Mr. Khan issue. What kind of "deals" could he ever make as President when he does a reluctant ally that way? Being a moderate RINO, I could care less about Paul Ryan's primary, but I do care about a Presidential Administration being able to get things done. McGovern made nice with Richard Daley AFTER his delegates booted the Daley delegation from the 1972 DNC; he displayed friendliness toward George and Cornelia Wallace, who did not endorse him and who was poles apart from him on a number of issues. Goldwater, who was more coarse as a candidate than McGovern, never trashed the moderates who were #NeverGoldwater, even after the raucous 1964 RNC.
I cannot imagine a President Trump getting anything done. I don't see him as willing to make the kind of "friends" needed in politics to get anything done, and especially given that his personal platform of issues is one which requires BOTH parties in Congress to compromise some. I can't see him being the builder of a new infrastructure that this country needs, which I hoped he'd be. And I don't see him as responsive to ANYONE in his inner circle; not even his kids, Don and Ivanka, who appear to know something about politics and PR.
I don't know what I'll do. I loathe Hillary, and if I vote for her, it will be in the privacy of the voting booth, and without a kind word toward her on my part. She doesn't deserve to be President. Gary Johnson does, relative to the others running, but if mental health is the issue, then the Presidential race this year isn't far away from the Edwin Edwards-David Duke LA Governor's race of 1991. A dumpster fire it was, but the remedy there was obvious.
Perhaps I'll feel better after throwing up. I hope so.
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