Coming soon - President Nancy Pelosi

[GannonFan]

And that's the real worry, Trump will come and go, but we're set up now to be far more celebrity focused when picking our candidates than ever before (and it's always been a popularity contest, but at least most of the time the folks we were choosing between had some track record to judge them on). Trump didn't cause it, he just took advantage of it and his playbook will be followed now going forward. Take all the air out of the room, dominate the coverage by any means necessary, and enjoy the free lodgings in the White House for a few years. Maybe we'll get lucky and actually get a decent President every so often. I'm not holding my breath though.

That crap started with Bill Clinton -

remember how "cool" he was ... playing the sax on Arsenio

"boxers or briefs?"


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Well, there's always been popularity. Think of all of the generals who have ended up as President. JFK was certainly a celebrity, as was Ronald Reagan. But at least all of them, Clinton included, had some pedigree in government, until you got to Trump (even Obama had a full term as a state Senator and then an abbreviated term in the US Senate). I wouldn't want to restrict government and the Presidency to people who have been in government only, as that breeds its own kind of bad outcomes, but it should be the exceptional person who comes from outside the system. Trump is certainly exceptional, but not in very many desirable ways.

[CID1990]

That crap started with Bill Clinton -

remember how "cool" he was ... playing the sax on Arsenio

"boxers or briefs?"


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Well, there's always been popularity. Think of all of the generals who have ended up as President. JFK was certainly a celebrity, as was Ronald Reagan. But at least all of them, Clinton included, had some pedigree in government, until you got to Trump (even Obama had a full term as a state Senator and then an abbreviated term in the US Senate). I wouldn't want to restrict government and the Presidency to people who have been in government only, as that breeds its own kind of bad outcomes, but it should be the exceptional person who comes from outside the system. Trump is certainly exceptional, but not in very many desirable ways.

I’m talking mainly about the electorate and the focus on all things other than the substantive

I can’t see Reagan or even Kennedy countenancing a question like boxers or briefs... they would have scolded the questioner

[houndawg]

Tell the White House kitchen staff to get to work on their Mexican food chops.

Yes sir. Perhaps you should consider moving the entire operation to Egypt? Middle America deserves some recognition and we could burst the EC(b) bubble.

....houndawg hill is located at the crossroads of the paths of totality for the solar eclipses of 2017 and 2024. Moore than coincidence? I'd like to hear from Nancy Reagan's astrologer before I decide...

[houndawg]

Americans (voters in other parlance) kept watching his actual reality show (er, the reality show he had before he developed the Presidential reality show he's running now) long after that thing got monotonous. You're giving American audiences (again, voters) way too much credit for turning off bad entertainment and for boring easily. I agree that if his entertainment value plummeted he'd be done for - problem is, his kind of entertainment is the kind of thing that people haven't been able to turn off for years. Let me know when people stop talking about Trump every other minute and we can start talking about his entertainment value plummeting.

Step 1 to minimizing Trump - have the MSM stop fawning over every tweet, comment, Q&A, etc.. that he does. It's a purely symbiotic relationship. Trump NEEDS the media to fuel his agenda and to be the bad guy. So, the MSM needs to stop giving him what he wants. He is the President, which will make not reporting difficult, but you don't have to report on all the tabloid drama which, sadly, the Mueller Investigation has become. You don't report on his tweets about Mueller or Cohen or Comey. You report the news as it relates to the welfare of the country and its citizens. Leave the tabloid stuff for TMZ.


And when the Investigation is complete - then report on that.

Stop making Trump the story. They are enablers.

I think from a purely political perspective it helps the donks to have Trump front and center spewing his drivel and the longer he does it the more he taints the Republican Party, which may never recover from this miserable debacle of an excuse for a government.