a dead parrot
The election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump…
… or, as I overheard one cynical Bernie Sanders supporter have it, “George W Bush and George Wallace”… and I suppose Assange’s much overmatched dumping of Clinton Wall Street speech material against the much more viral Donald Trump acting like a boorish buffoon sells him on the idea.
That’s one leak. The other one… quite possibly spells the death of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign shot — the reason I’ve once thought that this campaign is anywhere between a close Trump victory and a historic landslide for Clinton —
Somewhere between Obama’s easy win but not landslide over McCain but not where you have Reagan over Mondale. But who knows?
What needed to happen for the former, electorally and polling-wise, was coming into the focus during Hillary Clinton’s week off due to pneumonia. What needs to happen for the latter — well, that will happen if (suburban Republican) women drop from Donald Trump EN MASSE, and it was never hard to figure out how that might end up happening.
I have this vision of Hillary Clinton, and her campaign, trying to figure out how to effectively press the advantage and having a boat-load of Donald Trump material at the ready. There’s a danger of it sliding into static background noise (like everything else with Trump’s campaign that would spell the end of any normal politician), and there’s a danger of it being “old news” by the time of the election, super-ceded by … oh, transcript revelations that Hillary Clinton was very chummy with Wall Street officials, for instance.
So you start by you run the theme-centering ad of kids watching Trump’s vulgarisms. When you zero in the misogynistic angle for a follow-up on the ad, you do so at the time of the first debate.  The debate is where you bring up the issue of Miss Universe. And you do so at the end of the debate, so it will be the thing most people will most remember, and where Donald Trump will have been worn out.
The comedy of Julian Assange knowing the timing of when to dump the damnable material out on Hillary Clinton — to confirm the biases to that guy who thinks this election is Bush versus Wallace… right before the second debate… is that Hillary Clinton and her campaign also know when to dump things and this is when you leak this tape.
So Donald Trump can defend it as “Locker Room” “Private”, and most amusingly…
“Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course — not even close.”
Oh, if Bill Clinton’s private talk were public, he would not have survived. Come to think of it, the same is the case with Richard Nixon, isn’t it?
Yes. I am familiar with the armchair psycho-analysis on Bill Clinton with a “Saturday night Clinton” and a “Sunday morning Clinton”. I’m also familiar with Bill Clinton having a Sunday Morning Clinton as distinct from a Saturday Night Clinton. Which I’m not familiar with in regards to Donald Trump. And beyond that… there’s that matte of …
The “golfing with Clinton” angle poses a question to a class of Trump supporters (out in “alt right” territory — though, for that matter also his constellation of angry white downtrodden men)… isn’t that a little too chummy — like, is Donald Trump then going to run with Bill Clinton to the Bilderberg Group meeting, or something?