I have watched the Democratic debates. I have watched the Republican Debates.
Although I fervently hope to see a Democrat elected in 2016, I have to admit that, for sheer entertainment value, the Republican Debates have been the one the watch.
Why? You know why: Donald J. Trump. It seems that the more outlandish his tactics and the more abusive his statements, his poll number go up and up.
Yes, it is true, in this last debate, he has been a little more low-key, maybe even — dare we say? — low energy, but his campaign still shows that it persists on wind and braggadocio.
I am a resident of Florida, and was not fond of Jeb Bush as governor. Well, until Rick Scott took his place. Then I kind of missed old Jeb. Oh, sorry, I meant to say
Jeb! And some of us felt a little sorry for old Jeb! when he had to ask his audience "Please clap."
Jeb Bush and John Kasich have been the adults in the room when it comes to the GOP debates. Now Jeb is gone and some of us can't help but feel a little sorry for the way he was beaten. Kasich will soon be off the stage, unless he does really well on March 15. Then...we shall see.
Not that Trump has not made statements that make sense. If you ignore all the times he has talked about punching protesters in the face, the statements he has made guaranteeing the size of his penis, you will occasionally catch these gems of logic.
"In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to
topple various people that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent
that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of
the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we
would've been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now.
"We
have done a tremendous disservice, not only to Middle East, we've done a
tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people
that have wiped away, and for what? It's not like we had victory.
"It's
a mess. The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess. I
wish we had the $4 trillion or $5 trillion. I wish it were spent right here in
the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything
else that are all falling apart."
He
said those things, and was immediately called out for them by Carly Fiorina.
She said that those were the kind of statements she would expect to hear from a
Democrat, and, yes, she was right. They were. Well, as my grandfather often
said, even a broken clock is right twice a day, but that doesn’t mean that we
want to vote one in a president. Yeah, we all thought my grandfather nipped at
the sauce a little too often.
But,
back to the Donald, who claims he has never even tasted the sauce, these
occasional lapses into lucidity do not stop the possibility of a Trump presidency
from scaring the hell out of many of us.
We
are now being told by some Republican pundits that a vote for Kasich is a vote
for Trump. But would you really want to vote for pandering absentee-senator
like Marco Rubio or the Satanic-seeming Ted Cruz? What horrible
alternatives.
I
am so very happy that I have two much better possibilities vying to be the
frontrunner of the Democratic ticket.
Most Democrats and many others have their favorite of
the two. I will have more to say about both of them in upcoming posts.
