Donald Trump's campaign is collapsing

[KamaAina]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/3/1577398/-It-s-not-just-a-bad-week-Donald-Trump-s-campaign-is-collapsing

Donald Trump has just come off the worst week in modern political history—almost all of it self-inflicted. And what's shocking about it is that nearly every individual part of it would have been campaign-ending in any other election, for any other candidate.

It started with a predictably terrible debate performance. This itself is not unusual or even unexpected; it seems the Trump campaign was being sincere when they claimed their candidate was not preparing for the debate, and so Trump came out onstage and happily proceeded to spend the evening being the worst version of himself, simultaneously belligerent and hopelessly uninformed. Clinton was easily able to get under his skin—and did so to the point that her reference to a former Miss Universe that Trump had demeaned became, for Trump, his own dominant campaign theme for the next week....

Trump's response to his own poor debate performance, as well as to the tax revelations, has been extraordinarily unhinged. A surrogate could make excuses for past business dealings; it is impossible to dismiss the candidate’s toxic rantings while he continues to ramp up those rantings by saying things that are even worse.

In addition to telling the American citizenry to check out a detractor's "sex tape,” by Saturday night's stump speech he launched into a mocking parody of his opponent's bout with pneumonia, the declaration that "she could actually be crazy" and the accusation that "I don't even think she's loyal to Bill, if you want to know the truth." It was an effort that had political observers bewildered and all-but-openly questioning the man's sanity.

[roamer65]

1. Good, I want this election over at 11PM EST when they can call the west coast.

I will go to bed and sleep soundly after HRC is declared the next POTUS.

[ginnyinWI]

2. I wonder how Mitt Romney is feeling about now.

All it took were a few milder events: the quote about the 47%, and jokes about his dog on the roof of the car, and he was finished. Then this Bozo the Clown comes along and rises to the top of the ticket with far worse!

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Vindicated..he gave that big speech summing up trump as not qualified

[AllyCat]

6. I had a FB comment from someone say that she is GOP and voting for HRC

because she can't do tRump and figures Clinton can't screw it up any worse than it is now (whatever that means) and then we can vote in rMoney because he is "still making the rounds"

[shadowmayor]

3. Seems much the same to me

His campaign has been unhinged from the get-go. The only difference is the media isn't giving him a free pass on his usual BS. I'm betting he just stays the course until November piling up outrage after outrage. And sadly the polls won't move that much.

But polls be damned, when it comes to the electoral votes, Hillary has this thing wrapped up and has for months. What we are witnessing is a media concocted horse race, and now they're feeling uncomfortable with STFU donny? Fuck the pundits, fuck the media and fuck the drumpf supporters. We're moving on and we're gonna drag them all kicking and screaming.

This whole mess reminds me of Mittens actually thinking he was going to win on election night. WTF? How could his campaign team be that out of touch? Oh yeah, they had Fox Noise and their polls telling them just what they wanted to hear.

Still outraged by STFU donny?? I'm not. I haven't been surprised by anything this asshole says for quite some time.

[MFM008]

4. the unhinged is his base

and I guess that is a solid 30% of Americans.

[malaise]

7. Anyone who is still questioning Don the Con's sanity should have their own

checked out. Bat shit crazy does not describe this lunatic.