If Trump loses the debate tonight, the first words you will hear from his spinners....

[kentuck]

will be, "Well, he is not a politician".

The test for Donald Trump is to look presidential for 90 minutes and not tell a whopper or say something stupid. That is all that his supporters expect from him.

There is no low bar for Donald Trump. There is no bar at all.

Gore got disqualified for a sigh. Dean got disqualified for letting out a celebratory rebel yell. Dukakis got disqualified for wearing a helmet in a tank. They are trying to disqualify Hillary over emails.

Meanwhile, the lying vulgarian refuses to release his income tax returns and has unknown business dealings with Russia and compliments Vladimir Putin, as he bad-mouths President Obama. The fact-checkers show that he lies over 70% of the time that he speaks.

There is nothing that can disqualify Donald Trump or keep him from claiming victory in the debate spin if he doesn't piss himself behind the podium... Even then, there would be a conspiracy theory with an explanation.

[liberal N proud]

1. He has already won the debate

The media has set the bar so low that they declared him the clear winner.

[upaloopa]

2. I don't get all the negativity.

Wining because the media said you did means little.

What counts is how the voters feel about where the cadidates will take the country.

Trump is a dunce and Hillary is very intelligent.

[kentuck]

3. You are right.

Trump is a dunce and Hillary is very intelligent.

Yet, I am still negative about this debate and this election.

I wish I had your faith in the voters.

[gratuitous]

4. No, it will be that the debate wasn't fair to Trump

That's Trump's go-to excuse every time something doesn't go his way: It wasn't fair, they didn't treat me fair, the questions were unfair, the moderator wasn't fair, the audience wasn't fair, the air in the room wasn't fair, the placing of the podiums wasn't fair, and so on and so forth. Why this whiny little brat has become the hero for all the self-styled he-men masters of the universe is a puzzle it may take generations to put together.

[CincyDem]

5. If he were pretending to be a heart surgeon...

...his first words to his patient's widow would be "well, I'm not a heart surgeon."

He always reminds me of Otter's line in Animal House...you fucked up, you trusted me.

[kentuck]

6. Perfect!

Great quote from Animal House!

[packman]

7. Other possible first words:

"The moderator asked all those fact-based questions"
"They gave Hillary a step to stand on. I didn't get one"
"What do you expect from the liberal press?"
"I had no teleprompter"
"They didn't ask me any of the questions on the list I gave them"
"Lose? ME?. I am tremendous, how could I lose?"
"Obama set me up for this debate. It's his fault"

[WhiteTara]

8. I thought it would be

Hillary Cheated!