Hillary was a pretty good bullshit artist, and Donald couldn’t embrace the whole in a mere moment. She was more varied in her bullshit at Donald than Jimmy Carter was in his malaise before Ronald Reagan, and therefore there wasn’t any really easy “there you go again” rejoinder to be made.
But so what? Donald is not one to let traditional boxes define or confine him. From his viewpoint, she just fed him a ton of red meat to cook up and serve up as commercials.
This is a God-class battle, and sometimes God lets the enemy come on only to fall into hell forever.
In the weeks leading up to Reagan’s first debate the media had painted the retired Hollywood actor as an ignorant bumpkin who had no business being in the White House. The undecideds wanted to know who this ‘scary’ conservative really was, and whether he had what it took to become President of the United States.
In the first debate he didn’t do all that well. Carter caught him flat footed a few times and laid in some well-rehearsed attack lines. The media then promptly declared Carter the winner.
A week later the media couldn’t believe that Reagan’s polls went *up* afterwards. They were absolutely flabbergasted.
Why did it happen? It was because Reagan knew that America was going in the wrong direction, and he spoke about it with conviction and with heart. Meanwhile Carter was stiff and rattled off his well-rehearsed talking points.
Hillary in comparison is a robot. The empathy just isn’t there, and that is a big factor for the LIVs and undecideds.