A Primer on Political Hypocrisy

Today, I finally hit my limit.  I can no longer put up with the bloated
amount of political correctness and hypocrisy enveloping America in
its putrid fog.


Donald Trump (a man I'm not sure I can trust or vote for) was recorded
a decade ago saying some pretty oafish and boorish things.  He was a
married man at the time (but not a politician), and he said that...

     1.  He put the make on a married woman, but was rebuffed.  Good
          for her.
 
     2.  He can get away with things with a lot of women because
          he is rich and famous.  Probably works with rich and famous
          women and their boy-toys as well.  Not a nice thing for the rich
          and famous to do, but it doesn't speak well for the people who
          let them get away with it, either.  The world was always such.
 
     3.  He tended to admire the physical attributes of the opposite sex,
          without knowing anything further about them.  I guess women
          never talk about, check out, or are attracted to, the looks of the
          men around them.  Good thing too, because I know a lot of fat,
          ugly, guys who score as well as George Clooney does.

The Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate was shocked and said he
would never even use such words in front of his wife and daughters.
I guess he didn't notice that Trump didn't say it in front of his
wife and daughter.  He said it in a private (he thought) conversation
with Billy Bush...but the political hack who leaked it wasn't really
thinking about Donald's wife and daughter's feelings either, was he/she?

Several Republican leaders felt that Trump should be disqualified for
the Presidency.  A man who treats women that way should never be a
leader for our country.  I guess they forgot about JFK and Bill Clinton.
They did OK.  And one guy who didn't have any sex scandals turned
out to be a crook.

I know it's good to be politically correct...but the problem is, if you
disqualify everyone who makes oafish, boorish statements, you're going
to disqualify us all.  Speech is still supposed to be free in this country.


If you went back into my working life, my college and military days, I
said many things I would not want repeated in public.  Some of those
things I still believe, some were said in jest, some were because I was
angry at the time, and some were just stupid.  I'm just a guy.

And all of us, men and women, say and do things that we may later
regret.  But saying bad things is allowed in a free country.  Doing bad
things, not so much.

I can't believe that the kind of things that Donald Trump said are not
being said daily in the halls of power in Washington, on Wall Street,
in Hollywood, and in everyday America.  It's not nice talk, but it's real
talk...and sometimes, in world and domestic politics, being real is more
important than being nice.

Sometimes, it's good for a leader to stop being afraid of hurting feelings
and just go ahead and get things done.

So, to Congressman Ryan and Senator McCain and Governor Bush, I would
like to give you some cleaned up advice.  If you don't know what the
missing letters are, ask Donald Trump.  He'll be happy to help you out.

First off, stop being so p___y-whipped.  Grow a pair of b___s.  It's time
to m_n-up and support your candidate.  Or should I say person-up?  Does
m_n up hurt your feelings?

The real world is not a neatly protected safe zone on a cloistered college
campus...and the presidential campaign takes place and has consequences
in the real world.

I don't like that Donald Trump has said and done politically incorrect things.
But that is just one issue in this campaign, that has many other, more
substantial issues between the two candidates.  The country needs us
to grow up and face ALL the issues in a pragmatic and clear-eyed way.