CouchPotato

I don't think he necessarily has to shut up, but he can't be as ruthless as he was with Hillary. If she begins attacking him, I think Trump ought to fight back. I just think he should be measured in his attack. He bit his tongue quite a bit with Biden.

I wonder if the reason she lost doesn't have more to do with the fact that people felt there were better candidates overall and less to do with her likeability.

But most people don't know her and will never speak to her in person. She appears more likeable to me than Hillary, for instance. Cackling looks stupid, but it doesn't make her seem like a biatch.

Absolutely agreed. People mock her for her uncontrollable laughing, but it doesn't make her unlikeable. I think she'd be a fun person to hang out with if you knew her. Best move for Trump is to be professional and attack her record. Is Trump capable of doing that? I think so. Will he? I don't know.

C'mon now. Biden backed out because he is senile and doesn't have a shot. It took weeks of people telling him to drop out and donors pulling out. Biden dropped out of his own free will.....after he had no other choice. Trump has a shot. Many people want him to be president again. He doesn't suffer from MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT!!!, as robosmith calls it. Why would he back out? There are some crazy Trump supporters who claim he is a genius. They claim he is playing 5d chess in the political world. Everything he does is dignified and honorable and selfless. Everything the other side does are the actions of a supervillain and his minions. You sound like that.

What does doing something about the stupidity look like? Do you mean in the party? I mean they can't decide who runs and who people in Missouri want to put in the senate or whatever. That aside, McCain and Romney were attacked in the media. Not the chuds, whoever they are. I can understand you like quiet. I am not much different. But sometimes there are battles that have to be fought. It's a political warzone, and the people who are ready to label you a fascist for not supporting gender ideology in grade school are not capitulating. Parents who protested this sort of thing were investigated by the FBI as a terrorism threat. That's the reality.

And so selfless of that guy to hand the wallet over, too. He put the needs of that mugger ahead of his own. Trump would never be that brave or selfless.

The problem is it didn't work for the softer, genteel Republicans. Guys like McCain and Romney got eaten alive.

Well, I think the reality owes you some credit, too.

Buzzkill.

Nah. If I am going to go down the rabbit hole, there are bigger people who call the shots on things like that.

If there were others behind it, we will likely never find out. But yeah, it wouldn't have been Kamala.

It's not an easy thing to solve. The political climate these days is one in which you have you to dig your heels in, right or wrong. It's like apologizing to someone who wants to sue you. Remember when Romney was going to "put y'all back in chains" and Paul Ryan was going to "push granny over a cliff." The team wasn't built for the playoffs in 2012. They added a some grit next time around.

Used to be easier for people on both sides to laugh at their own political candidates.

For all I know about sciency stuff, and it could be possible, and Trump is a pioneer for some major medical developments. Just sometimes it's smarter not to wade in. It's like why I stick to talking about the weather with mechanics or why I wouldn't ask a surgeon "Hey have you thought about making the incision here instead and putting some kind of mild explosive in my appendix?"

In his defense though, I think maybe that's just his style. Brainstorming is kind of a board room, businessy thing. You might have experts in and ask a lot of questions like "Is it possible we could do this?" Most politicians would have the brains not to brainstorm about sciency stuff on live TV.

I remember being told but most of the mainstream media that Trump was advising people to inject bleach when he asked some experts a question about if it was possible to somehow use disinfectants internally to target the 'rona virus. To be fair, it was a dumb question. But it wasn't reported that way.

But I mean I am assuming you are conservative like me, so I doubt you believe in a DEI president. Plus if they backed out of the race they deny the voters a chance to choose them.

I just realized this race is going to be a first name against a last name. Kamala is like one of those famous people you commonly refer to only by their first name. Like Elvis or Cher. Are there many of those in politics? Vivek and Beto come to mind.

Everyone who successfully campaigns for their party's nomination denies all other candidates a chance to be president. Why did the Florida Panthers win the cup when someone else could have?

She might not have to. The media will do most of that for her.

How did we end up debating the holocaust? I think Five of swords could turn a thread about The Teletubbies into something about Jews.

If we are going down that rabbit hole, it would be incredibly difficult to pull off shooting someone in the ear while his head is moving.

I actually don't think Kamala comes across as unlikeable. I don't like her politics. But she looks like someone you would easily get along with if you met her somewhere and had no idea she was a politician. She actually seems like she would be a fun person. I think Perspektiv is right. She should be taken seriously. You should take any opponent seriously for that matter.