The Tough Thing About A Campaign Being

I Think The Democrats Did A Terrible Disservice, The Hillary Clinton Campaign Did, To Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine Had The Earned Reputation Of Being One Of The Most Respected And Well-liked, And Not Cheap Partisan Members Of The United States Senate. And They Turned Him Into An Attack Dog.

In The Past, In Order To Continue As A Candidate, A Serious Candidate, You Had To Be In The Top Three Finishes In Iowa. You Had To Be In The Top Two Out Of New Hampshire. All Our Presidents Elected In The Past Half-century Finished Either First Or Second In New Hampshire And In The Top Three In Iowa. That Changed With The Citizens United, When We Gave Unlimited Amounts Of Money.

They're Still A Subject Beholden To Special Interests, But At Least They Have A National Constituency. At Least They Have To Think About National Majorities.

The Reality Is That The Republicans Twice Had Mitt Romney As A Potential Nominee. They Chose Him In 2008 - 2012. In 2008 And 2012, He Had Been The Most Get Tough On Illegal Immigrants, On Undocumented Immigrants, Illegals, As He Called Them, Accused John Mccain Of Wanting To Give Them Social Security Checks, Accused Mike Huckabee Selling Out To Them With The Dream Act In Arkansas, Was Really The Most Strident.

Donald Trump Is Not An Unintelligent Man.