third party shmird party

Yeah I noticed that odd little cookie message also,  Shined it on like I do all those internet messages.

So what was so terrible about Hilary?  The private email server?  I think that uproar about classified papers was way overblown.  Most of the stuff that gets classified it's somebody covering their ass and not secret government information the release of which will topple the empire or get a few double agents killed.  And probably the other side knows about them anyway with their own double agents, and hasn't  it become obvious that everything is hackable these days anyway?  That Clinton charity, I didn't like that much.  I don't know why it got less press than the classified docs.  But still, a little lining of pockets is not that unusual.

But  maybe it is the character flaws, the way she lied about everything and then when she was found out she made another lie.  And that entitlement thing.  Maybe it was because she was around so long, but that seems a weak argument to me.  Experience is good,  Fresh faced naivety is not.  The idealism of youth is pretty, but it's not a good thing when you are running the country.

And here is Old Dog sighing that ancient sigh of if we only had a third party, and yet this time we had four.  Of course the other two were on the edges and Old Dog is talking about somebody in the middle.  Who was more in the middle than the big girl, to the left of the clowns in the debate, to the right of Bernie?  And the fact is that voters of both sides don't like anybody in the middle.  The reps call them RINOs and drum them out of the party every chance they get.  Just say one word in favor of (gasp) moderation or compromise, and you are out on your ear.  The dems are not quite as intolerant as that, they allow moderates if they look like winners, but they generally find them boring.

And then there is Colin Powell and candidates of that ilk who everybody likes, but once they put their toe in the waters, people don't like them so much.  What they liked best about them was that they didn't appear to want to be president.  Everybody likes somebody who doesn't want to be president, but once they do want to be president. not so much.. And all that is before the oppo research of the other candidates gets rolling.

The Cubs winning the series does not mean that all things can happen.  Pigs still can't fly.  And when pigs can fly it won't mean that the general public flocks to the Beaglestonian for enlightenment and peace and prosperity are just around the corner.