Long time lurker, occasional diarist, here to share some thoughts that have come to my head over the past week as more and more revelations are brought forth regarding the Republican Presidential nominee’s past. As I have scanned my Facebook front page over the past week I’ve noted an uptick in hysteria about the media’s collusion with the HRC campaign and/or the Democratic party in general regarding the release of the Republican nominee’s past boorish (at best) and criminal (at worst) behavior. As more and more of these details are released the louder and louder the screaming of conspiracy and collusion come from the right. My response on Facebook as been simple and to the point: The Republican party did not properly vet its candidate. Your party’s ineptitude has resulted in a non-viable candidate.
They had more than a year, hundreds of staffers and a damn Twitter “movement” (#notrump) and yet no one could come up with any of the dirt that is coming out now? Now you want to blame Democrats for bringing up what your sorry excuse for oppo-research failed to do during the Primaries? Your party is the failure here, and the result is an unfit candidate that has zero chance of winning the election and may well bring down the party and their majority in both houses of Congress.
The “R” team had 16 non-Trump candidates back in 2015 :
John Kasich
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Ben Carson
Jeb Bush
Jim Gilmore
Chris Christie
Carly Fiorina
Rand Paul
Rick Santorum
Mike Huckabee
George Pataki
Lindsey Graham
Bobby Jindal
Scott Walker
16 candidates! 16 campaigns staffed with experienced political operatives that have run winning campaigns before! Politics is a rough and tumble game and the shovel always digs deep during national elections — no stone gets left upturned. It simply boggles the mind that someone so flawed and with such a public background as Trump could not be exposed in such a way that his campaign would have been derailed before it even began. Republicans have no one to blame but themselves, their poor campaign management and lack of research, for the disaster that looms before them. Republicans like to claim they are the party of personal responsibility, well it’s time to take the moniker to heart as YOU are personally responsible for YOUR Train-wreck. NOT Liberals, NOT the media, NOT the Democratic Party, NOT President Obama and certainly NOT our next President Hillary Rodham Clinton!!