hoisted on his own petard

just to start honest--  i don't think anyone is disillusioned.  no one, surely, believed him a feminist.

but i feel kind of sorry for him.

he was talking to a younger dude.  he was trying to be funny.  he was being--  as close as i imagine him capable--  self-deprecating.  what he said on the bus.  eleven years ago.  it's ridiculous and hypocritical, almost, not to just let that shit go.

this is just the two of the one two punch.  which would never have worked.  if he had any impulse control what-so-ever.

so, does this underscore her effectiveness?  absotively!  she had the beauty queen lined up before the debate.  ready to go.  but she has to walk that not being a bitch line--  she just throws it out, almost casually.

and i'll be damned if he doesn't pick it up and fucking run with it.

ok.  she's a beauty queen.  she's got a contractual obligation to maintain a certain weight.  she didn't.  it caused some trouble and he may have lashed out at her inappropriately in frustration.  i'm pretty sure it went well beyond that.  but, if he had to say anything.  something like that.  to screech to anyone who will listen about what a terrible fatso she was crosses a line of decorum he's been one-two-skip-to-my-loo-ing for as long as i've been paying attention

but he made it the story.

it might have faded out, handled right.


there was a time when i thought, maybe, all his bluster and hot-button bigotry was a strategy.  i mean, not one i liked, but, ya know, it maybe made some kind of sense.  the republicans have been coalitioning the religios and the hatemongers for a while now.  it's not new.

what was new, and frankly, a little exciting, about him was his extemporaneity.


the people wanted something real.  the right-wing rallied around him.  telling themselves that he was a really really great business man who would make terrific deals for them and in their interest.

the left got thwarted by the machine.  maybe because she's just too effective, or maybe because, in the end, they aren't belligerent enough.  regardless.  the majority wanted something different.  both the blues and the reds agreed on that much, and, oh, the independents, what color are they.

if the thing that is finally too much, seriously, after everything, is that he said pussy on a hot mic...
i mean, bill clinton has said worse on the golf course.  i'm not even kidding.