As much as I like Mr. Hertzler as an actor, if he actually runs as "Sam Clemens" he is just handing the election to the incumbent. Besides, will he be speaking his core values, or those he attributes to Mr. Clemens? This guy will be making decisions in our stead, it might be a good idea to know where HE stands on the issues. If his position in "I hate Trump" I can't vote for him - HATE is not a Democrat Party value (or at least it wasn't). How will he address Global Warming? Energy production? Agriculture issues? Legal vs non-legal immigration (so these people don't get turned into slaves)? Human trafficking? Assuming that just because he is a Democrat he will be better than "Any Republican" is actually a prejudice remark, and is not a Democrat value... or at least not historically.
We COULD have had a really honest guy in the White House with a long history of standing up for the little guy and minorities. But Mrs. Clinton and the DNC stole the Party's nomination. She then ran one of the least exciting and tedious campaign in my memory (which goes back to Nixon). It was Hillary Clinton's election to lose, and she did exactly that.
Bernie Sanders would have beaten Donald Trump like a rented mule. Mrs. Clinton never actually won a majority of the popular votes needed to win her party's nomination, so I never saw has as a truly legitimate candidate anyway. Unfortunately, I was not able to write in Mr. Sanders' name on the ballot in my county, so I wrote in Jill Stein.
And it was not "The Russians" or "The E-mails" that sunk Mrs. Clinton. It was Mrs. Clinton's supporters. Several of my friends voted for Trump. But any time a liberal or pollster asked who they were voting for, they said "Hillary all the way!". Just as I did, though I had no intention of voting for her. And they were not alone. It seems as though this was happening all over the place. Their other friends, relatives, co-workers who supported Trump all told pollsters and liberal friends/coworkers/relatives that they were voting for Hillary. That made it seem like EVERYONE was voting for Hillary, which made her loss even harder to accept.
WHY did they lie? Very simply it was to avoid the reaction to anyone who was not voting for "HER". The "You're smarter than that", or "I'm so disapointed in you" comments. Hearing for an HOUR how bad "Dubya" was (which I never understood, since he was not running). Getting called a racist, bigot, homophobe, NAZI, sexist, was just icing. Do you really think that is how you win an argument or convince someone to come over to your side of an issue? Call them names? Did that ever work on you?
You younger Democrats need to grow the hell up before 2018, or we're going to lose again. I don't even want people to know I'm associated with you at this point.
