You guys are acting like idiots. How you think you can possibly benefit, by disparaging the looks of your opponent’s spouse, is beyond me.
Ted, you started it. I know it wasn’t you personally. It was your SuperPAC that published a semi-nude photo of Melania Trump. But you should have immediately denounced such tawdry tactics, demanded that it be taken down, and apologized that people who support you would sink to such a deplorable measure. But you didn’t. (Out of respect for the candidates’ wives, I am not including the offensive photos here. You’ve probably already seen them anyway.)
And Donald, you had every right to be outraged by the despicable act of your opponent (or his supporters.) So what did you do? You retweeted a classless piece of trash that compared a photo of your model wife with Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, in a very unflattering pose. Donald, this is outrageous on so many levels. First of all, it’s just unfair to use a photo of someone in a particularly unflattering pose. Let me demonstrate.
See, even really handsome guys like us are sometimes photographed in less than flattering ways.
Besides, spouses and family should be off limits. The candidate? Sure, it’s open season. But not the family. They have a right to be left alone.
There are of course exceptions. For example, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen, were convicted of receiving improper gifts from a contributor, and in all likelihood will soon be spending time behind bars (pending appeal.) She was the primary actor in this embarrassing episode, and reporting about her involvement in the caper was completely warranted and appropriate.
Similarly, when Michelle Obama stated that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am proud of my country,” that seems like something that the American people have a right to know. (Of course even with that knowledge, a majority of the American people saw fit to elect her husband President of the United States – twice.) So sometimes, yes, political spouses are a legitimate part of the story. But it should be the exception, rather than the rule. And NEVER in the way that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump attacked their opponent’s spouses last week.
How in the world are Republicans supposed to win in the general election this fall, even against as flawed a candidate as Hillary Clinton? Donald, you’ll most likely be the Republican nominee for President. And you’re getting killed among women. In a recent CBS/New York Times poll, almost half the REPUBLICAN women said they couldn’t see themselves voting for you. With those kinds of numbers, you can’t win in November. And in a recent FoxNEWS poll, you are losing to Hillary Clinton by 11 points, while John Kasich is beating Hillary Clinton by the same amount, 11 percent. (Ted Cruz is beating Hillary by 3 percent.)
Here’s the thing. It’s so absolutely critical that Hillary Clinton NOT be the next President of the United States. If we screw up, and she wins, we’ve done the country a great disservice. We’ll be stuck with Obamacare forever. She’ll stack the Supreme Court with pro-abortion liberal judges, and the Court will be lost for a generation. And Barack Obama’s failed policies around the globe will be continued, putting us and the civilized world in ongoing jeopardy.
So you guys have got to get your acts together. No more sideshow attacks on each other’s wives. No more boasting about the size of your hands. No more claiming you could shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue, and not lose any voters. You’re losing voters every day, with your latest shenanigans.
Stop being jerks. A lot of good people are counting on you.