The Extortion Election of 2016

[Geee]

American Thinker:

With the exception of the 1980 and 1984 election cycles, the most common electoral storyline since 1960 is that presidential elections have been won chiefly because most people voted against someone rather than for someone. In 2016, for the first time in modern American history, that narrative thread has become the entire basis of the campaigns of both the Republican and Democratic Party prospective nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

 

Trump numerically clinched the nomination a few weeks ago. Confronted with the unenviable task of propping up an extremely unpopular candidate, his surrogates and supporters in media appearances and op-eds have been mightily trying to convince skeptical conservatives and independents to back their guy solely because Hillary would be an unmitigated disaster. Therefore, his ever-changing policy positions or whatever verbal gaffes he intentionally commits and steadfastly defends, are immaterial as Hillary is the devil incarnate who would sneak into the National Archives at night and set the Constitution ablaze. The bloody shirt that are potential Supreme Court nominations is continuously waved as a flag of mandatory and unreserved support.

 

On the other hand, the Hillary forces, also faced with promoting an extremely unpopular candidate, cannot shake the specter of her unsavory background, serial dishonesty and near universal distrust. Her policy positions are as variable as the points on a compass, depending upon which group she is dealing with at that moment. Nonetheless, she and her campaign have begun to construct the apparition of a venal and treacherous Donald Trump looming in the background, prepared to tyrannize women, children and minorities. Only Hillary can save the nation and these eternally oppressed groups from such a fate.

 

The sad state of affairs is that both sides are fueling the image being created by the other.

[Valin]

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Trump numerically clinched the nomination a few weeks ago. Confronted with the unenviable task of propping up an extremely unpopular candidate, his surrogates and supporters in media appearances and op-eds have been mightily trying to convince skeptical conservatives and independents to back their guy solely because Hillary would be an unmitigated disaster. Therefore, his ever-changing policy positions or whatever verbal gaffes he intentionally commits and steadfastly defends, are immaterial as Hillary is the devil incarnate who would sneak into the National Archives at night and set the Constitution ablaze. The bloody shirt that are potential Supreme Court nominations is continuously waved as a flag of mandatory and unreserved support.

 

On the other hand, the Hillary forces, also faced with promoting an extremely unpopular candidate, cannot shake the specter of her unsavory background, serial dishonesty and near universal distrust. Her policy positions are as variable as the points on a compass, depending upon which group she is dealing with at that moment. Nonetheless, she and her campaign have begun to construct the apparition of a venal and treacherous Donald Trump looming in the background, prepared to tyrannize women, children and minorities. Only Hillary can save the nation and these eternally oppressed groups from such a fate.

 

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The comments section validate everything Steve McCann writes....with a large dose of I hate the GOPe.....whoever the heck they are.

 

Would you prefer to get shot in the stomach or the head? I would prefer not to get shot at all....but it looks like that is not an option.

[mozartlover]

"It is apparent, as both candidates are now approaching 70, that neither is capable of change or candor, as both have spent their entire adult lives in the pursuit of power and influence regardless of the consequences to others."

 

 

Yep.

 

"There will, by necessity, be an artillery barrage of charges, accusations, unbridled character assassination and outright fabrications traversing the campaign battlefield. Any discussion of policy differences or proposals will be relegated to a distant backdrop. The party and candidate that succeeds in terrifying the most voters will win. The American people will ultimately pay the price and be the victims of this extortion regardless of whoever emerges as the winner."

 

Yep again.