Its a pretty brilliant strategy, really . . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

Instead of engaging on issues, facts, and policies, Trump just belittles and pecks away until his opponent gets angry and reacts the way Meathead did yesterday in front of the cameras.

"Low energy"

"Mommy and Daddy"

Now its "Very low energy" regarding Doctor Kook.

Crazy as his ideas might be, Carson is at least hinting at his policies.

Trump, on the other hand "will be fabulous on the military."

As bad as that all is for our country, the voters who support these two and relish in the way they're running their campaigns are the REAL problem.

How did we get to this point?

[lonestarnot]

1. lack of civic education.

[Fumesucker]

2. What's the point of focusing on policy when most of them can't be counted on to tell the truth?

There's really only one candidate who has been reasonably consistent, the rest have been all over the political map chasing the vagaries of the polls and focus groups.

The politicians will tell you any damn thing they think you want to hear in order to get elected and then when they get in office they will do exactly as they intended to do anyway and other than their voting record you have no way of determining what that might be.

Trump is making the sheer idiocy of our electoral strategies evident by turning the knob to eleven, if it's a shitty tune at eleven turning it down to nine isn't going to make it any better.

[spanone]

3. 'reality' teevee

[BootinUp]

4. I think Roger Waters nailed it recently:

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/roger-waters-on-donald-trump-he-is-pig-ignorant-20150915#ixzz3paZa9IY6

Trump has been campaigning across the country with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again," an idea Waters takes exception to. "'It's the worst possible slogan anybody could ever come up with," he says. "It's silly and disgusting as well, unless they wanted to hark back to the potential. If the Founding Fathers hadn't been so up their own asses, they might have come up with a system that fell somewhere between republican democracy that was going to work and that had proper checks and balances to prevent it disintegrating into what it has become, which is a country for sale to the highest bidder with the Supreme Court at the top of it, who's appointed by the highest bidder eventually."

Waters cited the businessman's media exposure as the reason Trump is so popular. "The mainstream media in this country tend only to report a very limited section of ideas and views," he adds. "So it's perfectly understandable why people would believe Donald Trump's nonsense, because it's important to the 1 percent to propagate and disseminate these theories and these system beliefs in order to retain control. It's organized theft on a giant level, a huge scale, and is extremely efficient and well-organized."

[Wounded Bear]

5. Been true for a long time...

If the debate is about issues, Dems win. If all it is is shit slinging, advantage Repubs.

[HereSince1628]

6. The teajad seems bent on destroying the federal gov't, so rejecting competency

in national leadership, can be seen as moving that government closer to irrelevance and dissolution.

Cuz it's gonna be FABULOUS when there is no gubbermint to stand in the way of entrayprahnewers

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

7. How did we get to this point?

25+ years of defunding and demonizing education in concert with the faux noose horse manuer and RW screetch radio spewing misinformation 24/7. Mixed with nearly half the populations willingness, EAGERNESS even, to be told what to think and when and viola! Here we are.

JMO

[lame54]

8. all I have to say is...

Go Trump go

[BootinUp]

9. lol nt