A Nation Divided Against Itself...

Good morning, Friends,

As we now know, Hillary Clinton is at home in Chappaqua, N.Y., recuperating from bacterial pneumonia. She wouldn't even have mentioned she was serverely ill, if she hadn't passed out in public on Sunday. Transparency personified.

At a Donald Trump rally in Asheville, N.C., last night, another one of Trump's rabid supporters threw a punch at a non-violent protester in the crowd. What else is new?

This country is polarized. A full third of it each is respectively and unflinchingly backing one of the two most-flawed candidates to run for President in the last century.

Hillary is proving to be one new loathsome surprise after another. While hiding her serious illness, she went on her customary rant against Republicans at an exclusive LGBT fundraiser Friday night.

In it, she astoundingly called half of Trump's supporters "a basket of deplorables."

This was red meat for an audience of ardent Dems. But unlike on all the other occasions Hillary delivered this same scripted message to a roomful of donors, this fundraiser was open to the media.

Someone on her staff failed to adjust the candidate's remarks for this not-so-subtle difference, and the obvious happened.

Her private message to her sycophants went viral.

In politics, you can hammer your opponent with everything you've got, but it's suicide to criticize your rival's supporters.

This message from the Other Side is directed to Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump. "Remember well my words. Don't diss the voters!"

It's amazing to me that an "experienced" politician with such "good judgment" would not have known this and would have ever let those words escape her lips...even in "private."

Trump was correct in calling this the biggest political error of Hillary's campaign.

This was truly Hillary's 47% moment.

Her "deplorables" comment was such powerful ammunition for Trump that he was able to disregard that she intentionally hid her illness from the public--something he normally would have demagogued.

As I've been saying for more than a month Hillary's lead was evaporating.

This morning, the most recent poll shows the race in a virtual dead heat and moving in Trump's direction.

Regardless of who wins the election, we're going to wind up with millions of people who are furious over its outcome.

And as we've seen as recently as last night, the intensity of their emotions can lead to violence...on either side.

I implore the two camps to remember the sage words of Abraham Lincoln, "A nation divided against itself cannot stand."