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NBC News anchor Lester Holt asked a straightforward question.<\/p>\n

“Are you going to campaign insult for insult against Donald Trump?” Holt asked presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.”<\/p>\n

“No,” she answered, “He can run a campaign on insults. We’re going to campaign on the issues.”<\/p>\n

What, pretell, are those issues? She said she’s going to keep reminding voters that Trump is “temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief.”<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n

There you have it. Clinton said she’s going to campaign “on the issues,” and then spoke candidly about her presumptive Republican opponent’s temperament.<\/p>\n

Is that an “issue”? Yes.<\/p>\n

The question now facing the Republican Party brass that is gritting its teeth over whether Trump is capable of keeping his cool is: How is he going to respond?<\/p>\n

They fear — with good reason — that Trump is fully capable of flying off the rails. He’s shown that propensity all along the campaign trail so far.<\/p>\n

Here’s a scenario that could repeat itself. Longtime observers of Texas politics will remember when this happened.<\/p>\n

The year was 1990. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ann Richards was campaigning against Republican nominee Clayton Williams.<\/p>\n

The two of them shared a dais at an event late in the campaign. They each spoke to the crowd. Then as the event drew to a close, Richards walked over to Williams and extended her hand.<\/p>\n

Williams refused to shake it. He called Richards a “liar.”<\/p>\n

News photographers and TV cameras picked up the snub and reported all over Texas. How did the optics\u00a0play? Not well … at all!<\/p>\n

Williams’s refusal to “shake the hand of a lady” insulted a lot of Texans vicariously.<\/p>\n

Richards defeated Williams to become the state’s governor.<\/p>\n

Something tells me — if Clinton keeps talking “issues” relating to Trump’s temperamental fitness — that Donald Trump is fully capable of repeating Claytie’s mistake.<\/p>\n\n

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NBC News anchor Lester Holt asked a straightforward question. “Are you going to campaign insult for insult against Donald Trump?” Holt asked presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.” “No,” she answered, “He can run a campaign on insults. We’re going to campaign on the issues.” What, pretell, are those issues? She said she’s … Continue reading Yep, here comes the negativity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[395,1020,1424,2139,3236],"class_list":["post-15126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ann-richards","tag-clayton-williams","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15130,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}