{"id":10871,"date":"2015-09-05T23:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2015-09-05T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T23:39:01","slug":"ones-own-words-taste-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10871","title":{"rendered":"One&#8217;s own words taste badly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/donald-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10508\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"donald-trump\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/donald-trump.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever noticed that the taste of your own words is, well, quite bitter?<\/p>\n<p>You want to spit them back. But you can&#8217;t. You have to ingest them and they sit in the pit of your stomach like the proverbial rock.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having to do some of that these days as I look upon the Republican Party presidential field and wonder: How is it that Donald Trump remains such a commanding figure in that field?<\/p>\n<p>I made a prediction earlier this summer that I am now having to choke down.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I said Trump&#8217;s campaign had ended effectively after he denigrated John McCain&#8217;s Vietnam War service and the heroism he demonstrated while being held as a prisoner of war for more than five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I like people who aren&#8217;t captured, OK?&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>It was tasteless.<\/p>\n<p>What happened then? His poll numbers went up!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Then came the GOP joint appearance with nine other candidates. Fox News&#8217;s Megyn Kelly asked Trump to react to suggestions that he is anti-woman, that he&#8217;s made\u00a0highly offensive remarks about women, calling them all kinds of unflattering names. &#8220;Only Rosie O&#8217;Donnell,&#8221; Trump said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the event, he went after Kelly, demanding <em>she<\/em> apologize to <em>him.<\/em> For what?\u00a0 For asking a perfectly legitimate question?<\/p>\n<p>That would doom his candidacy, or so I thought. Silly me. His poll standing went up even more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He held a rally and started criticizing a close aide of Hillary Clinton and called her husband &#8212; former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner &#8212; a &#8220;perv&#8221; and a &#8220;world-class sleazebag.&#8221; Yes, Weiner &#8212; aka &#8220;Carlos Danger&#8221; &#8212; who sent images of his manhood to women other than his wife behaved in a disgusting manner.<\/li>\n<li>Then he stumbled over a question from well-regarded conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt about the leader of a terrorist organization. He then accused Hewitt of tossing a &#8220;gotcha&#8221; question at him and went on TV the next morning to call Hewitt a &#8220;third-rate radio announcer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At every turn, Trump&#8217;s answers to problems have been shallow, callow and hollow. He has presented nothing &#8212; not a single thing &#8212; of substance.<\/p>\n<p>But his poll numbers? They keep going up.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, this might be the year when conventional wisdom &#8212; which usually requires some actual seriousness from candidates for the presidency of the United States is tossed aside.<\/p>\n<p>That means folks like yours truly are going to choke on their own words. I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya, they don&#8217;t go down well &#8230; at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that the taste of your own words is, well, quite bitter? You want to spit them back. But you can&#8217;t. You have to ingest them and they sit in the pit of your stomach like the proverbial rock. 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