Squirrel-Hair's speech this morning got real where Hillionaire was concerned. He spared no ammo, bringing up the under-fire-on-the-Bosnia-tarmac claim, pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, adversaries hacking into her private email server. Granted, he had to color his salvos with his signature narcissism ("I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton — only by me"). Still, he served notice that he'll be unsparing.
It follows Hillionaire's Tuesday speech in Columbus, Ohio, in which she, quite accurately, said that S-H was "reckless and careless . . . [and] proud of it."
Obviously, this is only going to get more raw and ugly the longer these two are the presumptive Dem and Pub candidates, respectively (which a lot of folks are resigned to concluding is going to be until the first Tuesday in November, when one of them becomes president-elect; me, I'm still holding out for the success of some kind of Hail Mary). It just occurred to me why this is so: They will both be telling the truth about each other.
When both are viewed unfavorably by a majority of post-Americans, and for good reason, there will be no need to embellish reality or resort to fabrications. They can point out how each other is manifestly unfit for the office they're aspiring to, and drill down deeper with each speech.
I guess this will accomplish what I have come to conclude is the best-case scenario if they are still the grim set of options we're facing in November: a situation in which they are both so ruined, so delegitimized, so politically disemboweled that whichever one of them emerges victorious, he or she is rendered incapable of being effective at anything from day one.
That leaves us as a nation subject to the whims of the breezes blowing through our time, with no one's hand on the tiller, but that is five percent better than either of those hands on the tiller, directing us right onto the barrier reef at full speed.
One thing is for certain: This is going to get real savage.
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