The outrageous — as usual — New York Daily Times’s front page Wednesday had a photo-shopped image of Donald Trump as a clown with a happy face. The headline: “Dawn of the Brain Dead. Clown comes back to life with N.H. win as mindless zombies turn out in droves.”
I have yet to think Trump will be nominated, though as the days wear on — we’re still more than five months from the GOP convention — you have to wonder who may find enough traction to offer a true challenge.
Ted Cruz sure isn’t my favorite. Nor is Marco Rubio, without regard to he being raked over the coals for the robotic answers at the last GOP debate. All along I thought Jeb Bush would find a way to rise from what quickly have become ashes of his campaign. John Kasich comes across pretty well, but he’s on the outside looking in with a shoe-string campaign and more than likely had his few minutes of fame in New Hampshire. Ben Carson is out of the race; he just hasn’t said so.
On the other side Bernie Sanders has shown surprising strength and resilience through the first two head-to-heads with Hillary Clinton. But if you’re going to bet the farm, you better go with Hillary.
Everyone in the Democrat hierarchy knows she has the better chance to keep the left arm of American politics holding sway in the White House.
Fox News would give anything for an indictment for whatever missteps Hillary made with emails as secretary of state. It’s not going to happen, and there’s every reason to think Sanders’ appeal will wear thin. A Socialist Democrat might win in Europe, but that would be beyond the pale in the U.S. of A.
A TRUMP-CLINTON face-off would be quite a race, as would Trump and anyone. Same would be true with Cruz — he of a Nixonian attitude of win no matter what.
Rubio, though I find him a little plastic, probably would give the GOP its best shot — unless Alfred E. Neuman is still available.
By the time all votes are counted, we will have had quite a ride. Then, by the middle of November, the next presidential election cycle will start again.
