How will Trump handle losing the election?

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I don't lend much credence to journalists and other unqualified pundits--but the statement that Clinton will only win by not being Trump has a lot of truth in it.

I agree. Max is much more a curmudgeon than a troll.

gooey, krumple, oralloy, McG are trolls.

Sorry for being dense but what lion guy?

There was no systematic campaign by Hillary to wreck the women who brought forth complaints against her husband.

There was, however, a systematic effort to get people to lie about Bill Clinton's sexual meetings, such as Troopergate where an Arkansas enemy of Bill Clinton's offered the state troopers gurarding then-Governor Clinton to make up stories about Bill Clinton's sex activity in return for the money from the proceeds of a book he was writing bashing Clinton. The book was never written, so the troopers, who admitted they made up the stories, never got a cent. Now that is systematic smearing of the Clintons, although you never hear conservatives complaining about that.

So the question is: What will these people do and say, how will they present themselves, their values and reasons and their behavior, after even more revelations are published and after Nov 8 when Trump loses big and those losses effect down ticket races in a big way?

Apologies? Sincere remorse? Honest moral/ethical reflections shared with American citizens or their constituents? Har dee har har har. Overall, we will see almost none of this, I predict.

Rather more certain will be a defensive and justifying posture that forwards the following line - "I was (or we were) deeply sickened by this man. But we were forced to act to preserve America and never has America faced a candidate who so threatened our values and traditions and who threatened the very existence of America as Hillary Clinton. We had no other choice once Trump was our candidate."

And that story will not only be used to excuse these disgusting people but will also serve as a springboard to their next strategy - to continue demonizing and obstructing everything the Clinton administration sets out to accomplish.

I don't think this is going to fly.

I think you are going to see a section of the Republican party wanting to be reasonable and work with a Hillary Clinton administration.

Either way, Hillary Clinton comes into office with a great deal of political capital.

As to that second part, I think there's no question she got lucky in having Trump as her opponent (one of her strategists said as much). But it's impossible to know how she would have fared against Jeb or Rubio or Cruz or even Romney.

Anything approaching certainty that would have meant defeat for her isn't a claim I'd find compelling.

Thanks - I have trouble with videos these days - they speak too fast, sometimes even to follow with closed caption, or I can hear them but they're blurry sounding sportscasters who also yell for emphasis...

Lion guy looks better to me than Stein or Johnson.. (not that I read what he said - something to Trump, I gather.)

I'd prefer the lion itself, actually.

The Republicans were willing to work with the Obama Administration after coming to power in the 2010 election. But Mr. Obama chose extremism and conflict instead of compromising with Republicans. So the Republicans ended up blocking him.

Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

You mis-remember history so poorly I think you should give Clinton a pass on the mis-remembering sniper fire thing.

maporsche wrote:

You mis-remember history so poorly I think you should give Clinton a pass on the mis-remembering sniper fire thing.

This episode of PBS Frontline (one hour show) describes the Republican leadership's willingness to compromise with the Obama Administration after 2010:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/cliffhanger/