Replies

"This shoot the messenger strategy is going to wear thin pretty soon.
Eventually Trump is going to have to start giving answers to though questions.
His answers on gay marriage and Kim Davis were wholly unsatisfying. He’s tough on immigration with his mouth, but his “the Supreme Court has spoken” answers on gay marriage make me question whether he would be willing to actually fight for any conservative position, including abortion and immigration."

Ah, so you want answers to questions that will not even cross his desk? His "addressing" them will make you somehow feel better I guess? Getting elected this cycle will not leave a lot of free time for esoteric items that are not in the Presidential purview any longer. Abortion and Homo Marriage do amount to "gotcha" setups since they are no longer in the President's hands, well unless you imagine him writing executive orders, like the last guy.

How about we let him ( or whoever ) concentrate on the five or six huge issue like Jobs, Taxes, Military, Vets, Illegal Aliens, Trade. That's the way to get elected and re-elected, well at least for (R)epublicans. (D)ummycrats have an advantage obviously.

What you seem to want in a President is a mirror who thinks and talks like us. But we are quite literally at the end of the line here. There's no more time for screwing around. Elections are no longer going to be real, they will be just for show once they have several million more votes to lock it up forever, or, when they turn Texas "blue". Then it is done.

The President is not a superhero that can save the day for most of our issues, especially Abortion and now Homo marriage. What can he do? Even though I'm to the "right" of most everyone here on these issues, I cannot for the life of me understand how this comes up in the context of the President. It would make perfect sense for trolls to bring it up to either embarrass the candidate or cause disruption among his supporters. But it is illogical for us.

As far as Hugh, and the gotchas. You know, the last candidate that I can remember who had all the answers to these questions was John F'n Kerry. And he *lost* by 3 million votes. What Trump should have said when asked about Hamas or Hezbollah ...

"Hugh, don't concern yourself with the difference between poop and diarrhea. As President the only thing I will need to know is where they are, so I can flush the damn toilet once and for all."

Use similar answers for other gotcha questions. Stay out of the details because that is exactly what they are looking for. Everything said here gets rolled into (D)ummycrat campaign ads next fall. Why we argue about this same exact trap every four years is beyond me.