How come it's not Clinton for President?

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(03-08-2016, 02:15 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yeah, I know exactly how it works.  At the time of the '04 election over 60% of the general public thought Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9-11 attacks.


But in this case neither candidate is in the incumbent position where they have so much more control over the message to the country.  Incumbent presidents usually win because they have more control over the sound bytes the people hear.

All I'm saying is, true or not true doesn't really matter all that much.  If it sounds like it might be true, that's all it takes.  There will be a lot of shots given and taken back and forth and if a thing is repeated enough, the truth becomes irrelevant.

Both nominees will say they'll run a clean, non-mud slinging campaign but neither side will.  I predict it will get nasty, embarrassing for America kind of nasty.

And it won't matter who is the better candidate.  All it will come down to is who yells the loudest and who spends the most money.  When it gets to the point that it takes a couple billion to be President, the system is seriously broken.  It ensures that only the major party candidates will ever have the remotest chance of being POTUS.  And both parties will continue to put up lousy candidates and it will always be a lesser of two evils choice.

And in Congress, both sides bury everything in politics.  Each side's existence is focused on keeping the other side from getting its way on anything.  There is no middle ground, the place where most of the true answers can probably be found.

We are way beyond the point of no return.  What's best for the people is far behind us now and it ain't coming back. 

Now, it's all about who puts on a better circus.  A bunch of people are going to give somebody two billion plus to put them in a 400,000 a year job.  

I lean more to the right than to the left politically.  I don't believe the government should be so big or be such an enabler.   And there's nobody I want to vote for.

I keep hoping for a guy like Trump, but without the crazy, to come along to win from the outside.  That is unlikely because the party he wants to represent will use all its mighty resources to stop him.

It's convenient for the Republicans that Trump is so crazy.  It makes their we're doing it for America almost believable.

The way I look at it, if the Rep's want to win the White House, come up with a better candidate or shut up and let the people decide.