"But what I cannot and will not accept is the way this man goes after entire groups of Americans. His comments about the way he feels entitled to grope women are deeply disturbing — but he says it's just 'locker room talk.' When pressed on Sunday night, he doubled down on his excuses and refused to admit he'd done anything wrong."
Says Hillary Clinton in email I received this morning. She's hitting me up for a contribution. (I never contribute to any candidate.) She says "He's shown us again and again how deeply unfit he is to be president. I'm absolutely unwilling to take even the smallest chance that he might win — are you?" That's a good pitch.
Anyway, I disagree with the statement that Trump, at Sunday's debate, "refused to admit he'd done anything wrong." I don't even accept that he said "it's just 'locker room talk.'" He said it "was locker room talk," but not that it was just locker room talk. He also said that he was "not proud of it" and that he "very embarrassed by it" and "I hate it." He also apologized — to his family and to the American people. And he segued to saying ISIS is way worse and, later in the debate, what Bill Clinton did to women was "far worse." To say something else is worse is inherently to say that something is bad. To apologize is to say that what you did was wrong. And to say you are "not proud" of something is to say it was wrong. So even though he began by calling his remark "locker room talk," he didn't stop there.
I know that many of his defenders do stop there. That hurts him. Helps him with hardcore fans, but they're not enough to win, and they drag him down. I think he fought hard for his cause on Sunday night, and he did about as well as he could, but he doesn't have supporters of a kind that could detoxify him. Without middle-of-the-roaders capable of conceiving of embracing him, he's getting smeared up stinkily by those who love him best.
He imagined himself as the star who "can do anything": "They let you do it.... Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything." Now, he's even more famous, and he's toxic — so repellent that Hillary can raise money off the fear of "even the smallest chance that he might win."
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That is how deluded they are.
Jelly..can read Stefan's subconscious.
I too will vote Trump. I'm not a revenge seeking moron like Trump supporter are- all promising to actually vote for democrats due to their obsession with Paul Ryan.
...and manages to inject ageism.
(again)
One only need review Breitbarts hair on fire treatment of Paul Ryan during the primary to see where Trumps obsession with Paul Ryan comes from. Well 1/2 anyway.
The question is how much traction Bannon will have given the people chose Ryan over Nehlen by 85/15.
And Donald says he would not like to be in a foxhole with guys like McCain. LMFAO
Likewise: Joni Ernst and Cory Gardner – run without my help from now on.
Grackle, to be fair, I thought I read that Joni Ernst of Iowa was one who should be praised for staying true. An I wrong? Maybe you should check. Do t know about the others, two blog pages back it's hard to check.
AprilApple,
I've tried to understand what constructive purpose your negging and nagging may serve. You blame people diverting anti-D steam at the GOP establishment, but you resent being blamed for diverting your anti-D steam at Trump, a man you've accepted you will vote for? Please tell me how this is helping. Please.
This is America and a largely free representative democracy and people can be as foolish and inconsistent as they like, but if this was the Eastern front in World War II and the Republicans were the Soviets facing off against the Democrats as the Nazis, all of you chicken littles would be shot.
And rightly so. Try to imagine Stalin, who overcame Lenin and Trotsky and everybody else with nobody handing him anything, and furthermore who is now watching the Wehrmacht eating his country and shutting out the bones of his people, and, incidentally, humiliating him immeasurably,listening to part of his Politburo and his commissars and his generals flapping their hands and saying oh Stalin's a drunk Stalin's an incompetent Stalin has been playing with the Nazis all along Stalin is a picture g and he played golf with Hitler in 1935, well right now Stalin isn't drunk anymore and Stalin isn't playing footsie with the Nazis anymore and you need to shut up and get out on the line with your Moisin-Nagants and your PPShs and direct your fire towards the enemy. The Einsatzgruppen don't seem to have that problem.
Get happy, comrades! Do it for Mother America! Front Towards Enemy! Only a fool fights inside a burning house!
If you don't think your negativism affects others and weakens their resolve or their likelihood of voting Republican,then tell me, what do you think it is doing, why are you doing it?
To vent your pain? Don't vent your pain. As Q said to 007, Never let 'em see you bleed.
Suffer in silence. A true Russian soldier or American Marine with a gut wound, would not be pissing and moaning and screaming and crying and getting his comrades down. Suffer in silence. Front towards enemy.
No, you're not soldiers, but your weakness and dissension will empower the enemy just the same. The men of VT-8 didn't piss and moan that they were going to get chopped up at Midway. They didn't say Spruance is an asshole, FDR is a philandering crippled jerk.
No, they got in their hopelessly overmatched planes and they pulled the Zeros down on the deck with their staggering sacrifice and then the last survivor watched from the shark-infested waters as the American dive bombers with an open sky creamed the Kids Butai.
Never mind other people's character. Show me yours.
Kido Butai. Damned Android spellcheck.
Suffer in silence.
Great advice for Donald!
That hasn't been the secret to his success so far. Nemo me impune lacessit has been the secret of his success so far.
Suffering in Silence was something that George W Bush was great at. How'd that work out for him?
320, get some 420 and settle in.
Lieutenant,
The shorter version for those who have difficulty with accepting the lesser of two evils paradigm:
Grow up and grow a pair. "Trump that bitch."
So..Marquette releases results from a poll pre 2nd debate and pre-leaked remarks...i.e. useless.
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