Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

I feel like at some point the campaign will have to part with Katrina.

And that will Make America Suck Again.

 

Would it change anything for you? No. But, you're not the target audience.

 

Derp Thoughts by Ace Handy

 

Why isn't she holding a press conference to address this issue?!!?

 

Gotcha.

So there is a group of undecided voters out there who are willing to forget that the Birther-In-Chief assured us his investigators are finding interesting and surprising things in Hawaii, all which will be revealed when their digging is complete?

Who are these people, and how do we get them to disengage from the political process?

 

There's a group of center-right voters who are programmed to vote GOP who are most likely going to stay home for this election, which will hand it to HRC. If there's any way they can be persuaded that Trump won't completely sink the ship before being challenged in a primary in 2020, they'll hold their noses and vote Trump (and probably straight-ticket GOP.) That's the voter that at which any "pivot" is aimed. He has the True Supporters; he has thoroughly lost the center-left who might be tempted to consider the "right" Republican candidate. He needs turnout, and that turnout is the center-right nose-holders who'd rather stay home than vote HRC.

 

You're a point short with that plan.

 

In four polls out this week, Clinton is at 41% in three of them, and at 39% in the fourth.

It's pretty clear that there are voters looking for an alternative.

 

FOX reporting that Manafort has resigned.

 

Too bad. He loved to win.

 

I think that most of that is accurate enough, and that a typical presidential candidate would agree and try to continue that process.

Trump has shown no sign of that. He's been impulsive, an ADHD candidate, with his mouth running far in front of his thoughts, or perhaps directly from his first thoughts directly to his lips, without consulting his higher thought processes. I think it is only matter of time until he goes right back to what we've seen repeatedly throughout the campaign. Sooner or later (probably soonish) something will tweak his temper or his ego and he'll be right back to tweeting something that is ill-considered. It's who he is, and I see no reason to think he'll change at this point in his life.

Manafort is a shrewd strategist who is used to dealing with powerful megalomaniacs, and he couldn't make much of a dent. I can't see where putting a Breitbart bombthrower into a senior advisory position is going to turn Trump into something resembling a normal politician who tries to pump up his supporters while not alienating the rest of the country wholesale. I give it three days, max.