We've got a presidential race based on truthiness, not truth. And, with every day that passes, we find out something else despicable about one or the other of our major party candidates.
It's like a continual game of 'Can You Top This?' on their race to the bottom.
Thanks to Russian hackers and WikiLeaks (whose behavior should not be condoned but is another issue), we now know for certain that just about everything we ever suspected about Hillary Clinton is true. She's two different people--a private Hillary and a public one.
We really can't believe much of what she's said about her personal email server, deleted emails, or the apparently cozy relationship between The Clinton Foundation and her Department of State.
Even Hillary's own staff criticized her for having "terrible instincts," And at 69 years old, Hillary's not likely to change her ways very much.
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| Honestiness is always the best policy. Thank you, Stephen Colbert for giving the English language 'truthiness', the one word that sums up this presidential election. |
Donald Trump's campaign is based on a stack of oft-repeated lies that have now passed into the purgatory between truth and falsehood that Stephen Colbert dubbed "truthiness."
It started with Trump calling illegal Mexican immigrants "rapists." And that, somehow, you can't be a war hero if you're a POW.
The latest canards are that his once-beloved polls--which now have him losing--along with the media, and the election in general, are all "rigged" against him.
Trump has no evidence to support any of this, but, through repetition, he's manipulated these wild accusations from complete lies into truthiness. And that's as good as truth to his supporters.
Oh, Trump also claims with conviction that he's going to win all the battleground states and thus the general election 'big time.' Sounds like it's true, but again, it's truthiness. He's lying.
Inside reports this morning say his staff's own internal polls show that it's pretty much hopeless for The Donald. He can't win the election. He falls short of the necessary 270 electoral votes even if he wins all the swing states.
His campaign's new plan is to try and suppress the Democratic vote. Good luck with that.
Early voting, which is now going on in the vast majority of states, has overwhelmingly turned out registered Democrats. And turnout is strong.
That's bad news for Trump. He'll start election day already trailing.
The writing is on the wall for him, and all the truthiness in the world won't change that.
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