{"id":24977,"date":"2016-03-12T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24977"},"modified":"2016-03-12T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T21:33:31","slug":"whos-worse-than-hillary-and-the-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/whos-worse-than-hillary-and-the-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s worse than Hillary and The Donald?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking the other day that if The Hillary and The Donald* actually end up as the D and R nominees, it’ll be the first election in U.S. history where half the v*ote is an “anybody but Hillary” protest and the other half an “anybody but Donald” backlash.<\/p>\n

Can you think of a more repulsive matchup ever? Not that any aren’t<\/i> repulsive. But this one’s worse than Nixon v. Humphrey** for complete lack of … well, anything good.<\/p>\n

This guy’s got it right<\/a>. I’ve always believed that if you have<\/i> to have elections, cutting up a phone book and drawing candidate names at random makes much more sense than the way we (okay, “we”) do it now. <\/p>\n

Wanting<\/i> to hold office ought to be an automatic disqualifier. And never has an American election demonstrated that more clearly than The Slime v The Mouth, 2016.<\/p>\n

Never Yet Melted<\/a> got it right on the subject twice this week. <\/p>\n

\"ItsMyParty\"<\/a><\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

* Capital T as in “The Black Plague” or “The End of the World as We Know It.”<\/p>\n

** Note: That was another election in which, with the nation and the world in chaos and on the verge of shattering change, both parties managed to throw up (and I use the term advisedly) the worst sort of creepy mediocrities.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was thinking the other day that if The Hillary and The Donald* actually end up as the D and R nominees, it’ll be the first election in U.S. history where half the v*ote is an “anybody but Hillary” protest and the other half an “anybody but Donald” backlash. Can you think of a more repulsive matchup ever? Not that any aren’t repulsive. But this one’s worse than Nixon v. Humphrey** for complete lack of … well, anything good. This guy’s got it right. I’ve always believed that if you have to have elections, cutting up a phone book and…<\/p>\n

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