Agreed.
Two things just boggle my mind in this election cycle:
1. The Democrats are responding to a generational opportunity by going Socialist — appealing to voters they get anyway, and alienating a ton of others that could get them over the top.
This actually doesn't boggle my mind at all but only because I've seen this movie too many times before.
The hardcore activists in that party have made their candidates's lives a living hell since the primary system became predominant in 1972.
Go look at who WON the White House for the Democrats since then:
1) Carter - they got him because eight liberals were dividing the hardcore vote; to make sure this never happened again, they adopted new rules utilizing super delegates (those had already been there, but they were now given the right to serve as "correctors" to the process). Then keep in mind Carter had a bumbling oaf as an opponent who'd pardoned the crook, had not even been elected - and still came within less than 10,000 votes of winning election in the EC.
2) Clinton - they got him because the big name liberals - Cuomo, Bradley, Jay Rockefeller - all looked at Bush's 91% approval rating and said, "Never mind." Yes, he was the best candidate in that field, but he had so many issue positions that would never have won him the nomination in prior years (pro-death penalty, advocating the cutting of welfare, a wretched environmental record).
3) Obama - a charismatic dynamo with the speech (and a better pol than may realized at the time), but they mostly got him because even the Dems of 2008 saw Hillary and went...."nah!"
In point of fact, experience tells me this level of arrogance is less surprising than it should be. They've been doing this same hardcore act for years. Polls will show them that John Glenn or Gary Hart will be a stronger candidate against Reagan; to hell with them, Mondale has promised us everything - and you know what happened.
Warren won't lose as badly as Mondale but only because Trump wasn't a two-time governor of California.
2. The Republicans are kowtowing to a President who has exactly zero personal credibility and leadership skills insufficient for a Cub Scout den. He’s a vindictive [pick your own non-TF word], but carries no weight except in areas where no Democrat could win anyway. So his support means little or nothing. So why kowtow?
This one makes slightly less sense to me, but it probably should not.
Any deal with Trump is a deal with the devil. You get an empty IOU, and he's laughing at the end.
What we need is a reasonable adult who neither wants to give all the toys to everybody in the country by whatever means, nor responds to every situation with coercion and threats.
I’m not sure those exist anymore.
My Christian friends:
Can't vote for McCain, he's a RINO
Can't vote for Romney, he's a RINO
TRUMP!!!! He's a conservative! (what......the......hell..........)
