I'm
really uncomfortable with the 2016 general election choice of candidates for
president. I would vote for none of the above if it would get me a do over. But
it won't. So here's how I see the choice.
Let's
start with the assumption that both candidates are equally odious. Trump and
Clinton are the worst and second worst all time in negative ratings in the
polls for good reason. Neither is an especially big fan of the Constitution as
it was understood when it was adopted. Both want the law to say whatever is
convenient at the moment. The only differences I can see is how the media and
the courts will treat each candidate.
The
mainstream media will cover every Trump flaw, every lie, every mistake and put
everything he does wrong in screaming headlines. The courts will stop Trump
fast any time he tries to do something by executive order that the law doesn't
allow. Trump won't be able to breathe hard without someone calling him a racist
bigot for breathing hard.
In
contrast, Clinton will get the Obama soft pitch treatment. The mainstream media
will cover up every Clinton flaw, every lie, every mistake and obscure
everything Hillary does behind a smokescreen of adoring flattery. If Clinton
wants to unilaterally change tax law and not collect some tax for a year, like
the Employer Mandate tax, the press will cover it like presidents have been
unilaterally postponing tax collections since 1790. The Supreme Court will
rewrite laws for her, so she doesn't have to deal with those elected mean bean
Republicans in the House and Senate. Both the media and the courts will go out
of their way to find excuses to back Clinton in whatever she does.
Trump was number 15 out of 17 on my
ranking of Republican presidential candidates. But at least the media and the
courts will watch him and keep him as honest as they can. That's why I will
vote for him. Luckily, I have bad allergies, so I won't have to hold my nose.