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Originally Posted by August
OK but why congratulate me? I never vote in party primaries and intend to vote for Johnson next month and would have even if the Republicans had run a better candidate than Trump.
In any case that doesn't take away one bit from the fact that a Democrat administration, abetted by the corporate media, was going to do whatever it took to keep the Democrat nominee from answering to her crimes including holding secret meetings between the AG and the defendants husband. Nor does it take away from the fact that the same biased corporate media would have minimized and excused what they are crucifying Trump for doing if he was a Dem just like they are doing with the steady stream of incriminating emails from Clinton and Co.
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Sorry, bad choice of words, I meant the people who elected Trump to be Republican candidate, not yourself personally.
Absolutely, the Democrats have pulled very sleezy tricks, although I'm not sure in the most recent wikileaks emails exactly what is meant to be so devastating, the fact that it was Russian government activities that brought these emails out is perhaps a bit more concerning than the contents of the emails themselves which only serve to confirm a lot of what we already knew or suspected, that Hillary will think one thing but say another (just like most politicians) that she wants open borders and open trade (I can see open borders being a problem for Americans these days, but open trade is one of the founding principles of the free market system which America has always campaigned for), and that she will do anything to win. Now, imagine if this had been Mitt Romney, not Trump, running...now unless the Dems were able to pull up some kind of massive Mormon conspiracy, he would be making absolute hay with these emails, and you can be sure that the GOP would be at full capacity on pushing everything they had to keep anything dishonest or troublesome about Hillary on the front pages. But it's not Mitt, it's Trump, and he's a walking headline generator. It's a man who is more newsworthy than his party, and the fact that his party is not, and has never been, fully unified behind him only underlines the fact that the GOP has thrown this one. It let Trump get that momentum, because let's face it, if the GOP fact-checking hounds were anywhere near as competent as they claim to be (and indeed normally are) then these sex allegations and pussy comments would have come out during the Republican primaries and we would have Ted Cruz running against Hillary most likely, but the GOP stepped back because part of it wanted Trump, they wanted that strong man, that non-politically correct man, they wanted his power, his 'charisma' and they wanted that image, to court the 'Alt-Right', the Breitbarts and the 4chans. Trump was trendy, so they gave him a pass, when really all of the warning bells should have been ringing, when all of their senior members were shuffling their feet and saying "Well...errm...this might not be a good idea." Now all the chickens have come home to roost, and sure the Democrats have had a part in that, they've played some strong cards, but the simple fact is, Trump has played weak hands in return, he's blustered and bumbled from one soundbite to the next, and given his enemies absolutely everything they could have wanted. He's a perfect gift to the Democrat party, any other competent GOP candidate would have wiped the floor with Hillary, who is one of the most hated women in America, even her own voters are not fond of her, and Trump could have made hay with that, he could have split their party in two, brought chaos to the Democrats, but he's not the person to do that, instead he pretty much quotes from Alex Jones, attacks SNL, and basically bumbles around like an idiot.
I don't blame you for going third party, I think that I would still vote for Hillary if only to vote against Trump, but that's probably because I got burned badly with a third party in 2010 and that third party got vaporised in 2015. I hope that this doesn't happen with your third party, but I imagine that they've got more political acumen than Nick Clegg.
