Stable Genius Strikes Again

[demi-conservative]

But you're fine with such criticism of his.

I am fine with facts!

[Starlight]

I was hoping for Rand Paul early on, but he disappeared almost as soon as the primaries started.

Wow, we agree on something!

I then rooted for Cruz until he exposed himself as a total sleaze with questionable campaign tactics.

Um, it kinda disturbs me you couldn't tell Cruz was a total sleaze prior to that. I get that Republican politicians in general have the sleaze-o-meter pinging away so it can be hard to notice one sleaze in a room full of sleaze, but Cruz is sooo bad your sleaze-o-meter should be catching fire the moment he opens his mouth.

Kasich is too spineless and establishment for my taste.

Fair enough.

Spanish-speaking Jeb would have tried to turn us into an extension of Mexico, and I don't think Rubio would have been much better.

Um, that seems a ridiculous claim.

Jeb! and Rubio were just run-of-the mill spineless establishment figures like Kasich.

Carson seemed like a real man of integrity

Um, dude, the man lied constantly. And he seemed to know nothing about politics, and always looked like he was falling asleep on his feet.

Basically, Trump was the candidate we needed to beat Hillary.

Doubtful. Hillary was less liked than any previous major party nominee, with approval ratings in the -15 to -20 range. Almost anyone could win against that.

Trump managed to beat even her in unfavorably with ratings in the -20 to -25 range. (Indeed, as you'd expect from those ratings, Hillary got more votes than he did) That wasn't a good candidate to be fielding against her, and it was only by chance distribution of electoral college seats that he manged to win by a tiny tiny margin of votes due to how the votes for the candidates were distributed across states.

[Sparko]

I think you mean not only crass, but juvenile.

[JimL]

I am pretty sure if you said that "Trump is a complete juvenile jackass," when speaking in public or to the press, you would get just about everyone's agreement from both sides (except maybe demi-conservative)

So you voted for a complete juvenile jackass?

Doesn't make him insane though.

No, just makes him a complete juvenil jackass, that you voted for.

[Sparko]

So you voted for a complete juvenile jackass?

No, just makes him a complete juvenil jackass, that you voted for.

Which was still better than Hitlery. Who YOU voted for. Sad.

[One Bad Pig]

Then there's JFK who had an unhealthy sexual obsession, and Bill Clinton had some serious issues in that department as well.

Well, yeah, but we were on the topic of "crass" not "adulterer".

I'm starting to get the impression that even presidents are flawed human beings.

You don't say.