Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

When I said "GOP" I meant the party leaders and the candidates. You're right, the voters—particularly this year—don't want to be told how to vote otherwise Jeb! would be the candidate. My point was if the field and party leaders took Trump on this hard from the beginning and called him out of all of his BS, his numbers may have fallen. I could be wrong, but I feel like there was a general assumption that Trump would take himself out so the fight became between them. As the campaign went on, Trump got a huge head of steam and all of this "Not Trump," Cruz-Kaisich deal, Cruz calling Trump a pathological liar is not going to dent anything.

 

There were people saying what a freakshow a Trump candidacy would be - unfortunately they were in the media which automatically boosted his Republican cred.

 

With those tiny mitts, Drumpf would need a derringer.

 

What many are forgetting is how well Trump did in the debates and there were many of them.
The more established GOP candidates had ample opportunity to take down Trump and all failed.

 

I guess if your idea of winning a debate is being the biggest uneducated asshole on stage, Trump was indeed a clear winner.

 

Trump was never going to "take himself out" of anything. That's the difficulty for the media and political foes when he says the outrageous stuff. There is no such thing as a gaffe with Trump because if anyone calls him on something, he simply says, "fuck you." He gave them nowhere to go. And since he's doing this with no big donors, he'd not beholden to anyone. That's the danger of this guy. At this point, the safest thing for any responsible voter from either party is to suck it up and vote for Clinton. At least she knows how stuff works in the government and has foreign policy experience. President Trump will be the worst fucking disaster for this country ... ever.

 

You could not be more wrong. He's a fool, and nowhere was that made more clear than the debate stage.

 

Women love Hillary!

 

Little Marco and Lying Ted as debate strategy?

 

Exactly. Everyone thought he'll piss off so many people his numbers would plummet and he'd be gone. So the establishment went after each other and fought to go one-on-one with Trump. Now it's too late. In fairness, I wouldn't have voted Republican anyway but a reasonable candidate stood a chance against Hillary. Not now. The bloc that is carrying Trump now won't be enough against the Dems if the Dems turn out.

 

ABC calls Indiana for Trump

 

I guess God will not be exhorted to bless the Great State of Indiana tonight. The Official Candidate of Jesus Christ has been vanquished by a large margin.