I thought it would have been impossible for the 2016 presidential campaign to get any lower, more miserable than it has been to this point.
Silly me. I forgot about Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president. He has all but pledged to bring Bill Clinton’s sexual behavior forward as a campaign issue against the former president’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The lesson apparently is that never put anything — anything at all! — past Trump.
He said Clinton can get “nasty,” but adds he can get “nastier.”
That appears to be his signal for what is to come.
I’ve wondered — in this forum and in conversation with others in the Texas Panhandle — what does Bill Clinton’s behavior have to do with Hillary Clinton’s ability to run the country?
Oh, I get it. Trump is going to assert, perhaps, that if she cannot control her husband, she cannot be expected to take command of the U.S. military, that she cannot become head of government, head of state, leader of the Free World. Is that it?
Well, it’s utter horse manure.
Trump knows it. I know it. You know it. Bill and Hillary know it.
That will not stop Trump from making an absolute ass of himself — in the eyes of those who haven’t already climbed into I fear we haven’t yet hit bottom.