2016 election - character or issues - character

[Guest]

The primaries on the Democratic side will not have many attacks of each others character. Sanders never has attacked his opponent's character, and Clinton will probably respond in kind.

On the other hand, the Republicans will. This might not be done in television attack ads. They will come in stump speeches, and interviews. Trump, due to his personality, and use of absolutes, will attack anyone that questions his past, or qualifications for the presidency. Everyone expect Bush, Walker, Paul, and Cruz will attack Trump's personality to get a raise, if possible, in the polls.

The 2016 general election, due to all the political action groups, and their money, destroying their opponents character will be the name of the game. It is going to be unbearable to watch. I hope that it gets so bad that the president and Congress to be will do something about the 501(4)c charitable political action groups. Enforce the IRS law as written in the early 50's. Do not let these groups perform any political activity. They can do it, but the IRS law that makes their donor's name public.

[Guest]

The primaries on the Democratic side will not have many attacks of each others character. Sanders never has attacked his opponent's character, and Clinton will probably respond in kind.

On the other hand, the Republicans will. This might not be done in television attack ads. They will come in stump speeches, and interviews. Trump, due to his personality, and use of absolutes, will attack anyone that questions his past, or qualifications for the presidency. Everyone expect Bush, Walker, Paul, and Cruz will attack Trump's personality to get a raise, if possible, in the polls.

The 2016 general election, due to all the political action groups, and their money, destroying their opponents character will be the name of the game. It is going to be unbearable to watch. I hope that it gets so bad that the president and Congress to be will do something about the 501(4)c charitable political action groups. Enforce the IRS law as written in the early 50's. Do not let these groups perform any political activity. They can do it, but the IRS law that makes their donor's name public.

Again, you begin your post with an implication that ONLY Republicans do the attack ad thing. You are either being deceptive or just are naive to think that.

You also skip over the ACTUAL CHARACTER OF EACH CANDIDATE. You speak as if they begin now as innocent babes and we certainly know that is not true. I think, on many of the candidates we already KNOW their background and character traits. As the campaign progresses we may find out more but my objection, for what it is worth, is your absolute generalizations and your absolute thinking that only Republicans will attack their opponent. That alone turns me away from this post and to ignore EXISTING character issues is just plain naive.

A long way to go and of course the only character attacks will come from Republicans as you made clear so lets sit back and watch

[Guest]

In rereading your post I may have misinterpreted what you said about the attack ads, etc.

If you were speaking of DURING THE PRIMARIES, of course you might be right and if that is the case I agree, but as Clinton's number slip and Sanders goes up and maybe Biden enters it might change.

[Guest]

I'm confused ... does Hillary Clinton actually have any character that's measurable, in any manner or form??

[Guest]

Is there any candidate out there from either party that Donald Trump has NOT attacked? So far he has gone after Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Lindsey Graham, Rick Perry, etc plus non-candidates John McCain and of course, Barack Obama.

And Trump leads the GOP pack, beating most of the other candidates by double digits in some polls.

[Guest]

I don't know how I could have made it any clearer: "The primaries on the Democrat side". Even in your reread, you said I might be right about Sanders/Clinton. You find it impossible to give me credit for anything. You continue to throw out there that I am the problem. Whatever floats your boat.

Concerning Biden, due to recent death of his son, I don't think he has any desire to run for president in 2016. If Hillary, I don't think Sanders can overtake her, loses in 2016, Biden would lean to run for president in 2020.

I don't know about the character of the Republicans running, and their desire to eat their own. I thought that this was a political forum to inform. If you have to go out and read everything about every candidate, why bother to come here? Given the total bias of the news media, where would you even go to get an unbias view of each candidate?

I shortchanged Marco Rubio on the other posts concerning the 2016 election. This was an oversight, and not done intentionally. He has a real possibility to be the Republican's nominee.

[Guest]

I don't know how I could have made it any clearer: "The primaries on the Democrat side". Even in your reread, you said I might be right about Sanders/Clinton. You find it impossible to give me credit for anything. You continue to throw out there that I am the problem. Whatever floats your boat.

Concerning Biden, due to recent death of his son, I don't think he has any desire to run for president in 2016. If Hillary, I don't think Sanders can overtake her, loses in 2016, Biden would lean to run for president in 2020.

I don't know about the character of the Republicans running, and their desire to eat their own. I thought that this was a political forum to inform. If you have to go out and read everything about every candidate, why bother to come here? Given the total bias of the news media, where would you even go to get an unbias view of each candidate?

I shortchanged Marco Rubio on the other posts concerning the 2016 election. This was an oversight, and not done intentionally. He has a real possibility to be the Republican's nominee.

Sorry if I offended you; it was not intended and only wanted to correct my error, but I meant to say MIGHT BE RIGHT.

It is early on in everything and a long way to go and not the time to deal with absolutes with unknowns,