I Gotta Go Vote And I Sure Do Dread It

Did anyone really think this Presidential election was going to be anything other than a depressing fecal fight to the finish?

Did anyone really think this Presidential election was going to be anything other than a dismal march to an inevitable end-the presidency of Hillary Clinton?

I remember when I had high hopes for 2016.

After all, Clinton has been around a long time and most people accept the fact that she is a lying skunk.

Republicans had a "deep bench". They had several governors of "Blue States". They had a couple of sharp young senators that would have compared favorably to the much older Clinton. They had an African-American brain surgeon. They even had a former CEO of a  technology firm that I still think is kind of cute, but that's just me.  They had a Bush.

I could have voted for any one of these people. I think they could have won, too. Even Bush.

All of that went down the drain on that June day when Donald J. Trump rode down the escalator and announced his candidacy.

In the previous Presidential election, the voters told the Republican Party it was too rich, too old and too white. So what does The GOP do?  They nominate a rich old man. But give them credit, he isn't white. He's more orange.

I have never been a fan of Trump. I've always found him to be a little over the top.  I guess that is an understatement.

Trump has been childish, churlish, and boorish. He has shown remarkable ignorance about some really important things, like the Nuclear Triad. He's promised a wall at the US-Mexican border and promised he would get Mexico to pay for it. However, as Tony Powell of Imus In The Morning said, nobody has seen a blueprint of the wall.

His stream of consciousness speeches connected with a lot people.

The Downhome Don from Queens made a lot  of sense to people who are constantly being told to shut up and they don't matter because of something their great grandfather said or did.  They are not cool. They don't believe the right things. They didn't go to the right schools, if they went at all. Like Randy Newman's Rednecks, they "drink too much and they laugh too loud".

These people are always told how bad they are. They are racist. They are homophobes. They are Islamic phobic. They are deplorable.

He's also connected with a bunch of vicious eight balls whose main purpose seems to be how vulgar and mean they can be.

Instead of leading these people, Trump has just played to the choir. He became a political version of Steve Martin. He toured around, drawing big crowds, but instead of saying "Excuse Me", he said "Rigged Elections".

He basically had one argument: "Me". He made President Obama seem like a shrinking violet.

Trump has split the Republican Party.  Most Republicans are going to hold their nose and vote for him mainly because of The Supreme Court.

However, several of us can't vote for Trump. He may be a billionaire, but he is simply unfit to be President of The United States. It is a simple case of  the wrong man for the wrong job.

What are we going to do? Some of us will end up voting for Clinton. Some will vote for Gary Johnson, who could have been a contender if he would lay off the wacky tobacky. Some will write in various names.

All I know is this has been a terrible election cycle and I will be happy when it is over.