Quote:Mathews: Election Diary Thursday, October 27th:

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, I mean, whatever you think of Donald Trump, you have to wonder, why isnt he doing it? Why isnt he running for president? Why isnt he spending every hour asking the voters again and again, do you like way things are, the way theyve been headed in this country?

Do you like the continued destruction of our manufacturing base, the jobs that went with it? Do you like the uncontrolled illegal immigration? Do you like the string of stupid wars from Iraq, to Libya, to Syria?

If you want to say yes to all that, you want to keep all this the way it is? Vote for Hillary Clinton. If you don`t like the way things have been headed, you got a chance to really shake the system to its roots.

If you wake up the day after the election, the same it is today, if it`s the same four, or five, eight years from now, remember you had a chance to change it but you were too dainty to do it. If Trump were to win this election, those would be the reasons that would be listed right at the top of the newspaper the day afterwards.

So, why doesnt he say now what would win him the election? Why doesnt he fight and create stupid headlines with his battles with Megyn Kelly and Dana Bash? He seems to devote day after day to fighting fights that make people forget the reasons he started running for president, reasons that continue to carry the shrinking chance he has to win this thing.

I say this not because I want Trump to win, but because I cant stand politics being practiced so pathetically. We have been looking at live pictures, by the way, from LaGuardia Airport in New York of Mike Pences plane which slid off the runway this evening. There were no injuries. And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.

(11-01-2016 09:19 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Here's the text. It seems he's gone from Clinton to "None of the Above"

Quote:Mathews: Election Diary Thursday, October 27th:

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, I mean, whatever you think of Donald Trump, you have to wonder, why isnt he doing it? Why isnt he running for president? Why isnt he spending every hour asking the voters again and again, do you like way things are, the way theyve been headed in this country?

Do you like the continued destruction of our manufacturing base, the jobs that went with it? Do you like the uncontrolled illegal immigration? Do you like the string of stupid wars from Iraq, to Libya, to Syria?

If you want to say yes to all that, you want to keep all this the way it is? Vote for Hillary Clinton. If you don`t like the way things have been headed, you got a chance to really shake the system to its roots.

If you wake up the day after the election, the same it is today, if it`s the same four, or five, eight years from now, remember you had a chance to change it but you were too dainty to do it. If Trump were to win this election, those would be the reasons that would be listed right at the top of the newspaper the day afterwards.

So, why doesnt he say now what would win him the election? Why doesnt he fight and create stupid headlines with his battles with Megyn Kelly and Dana Bash? He seems to devote day after day to fighting fights that make people forget the reasons he started running for president, reasons that continue to carry the shrinking chance he has to win this thing.

I say this not because I want Trump to win, but because I cant stand politics being practiced so pathetically. We have been looking at live pictures, by the way, from LaGuardia Airport in New York of Mike Pences plane which slid off the runway this evening. There were no injuries. And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.

(11-01-2016 09:27 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Pic of Matthews getting on the Trump Train

(11-01-2016 09:43 AM)solohawks Wrote:  Have you guys seen the clip of Matthews explaining why Trump is popular at a big time DC conference?

He is a smart guy, wrote a great book on the Nixon Kennedy election. I just hate seeing him be a liberal caricature on TV when he is definetely more a classical liberal/populist at heart

(11-01-2016 09:15 AM)BlazerFan11 Wrote:  Looks like Putin's agents have infiltrated MSNBC, too.

(11-01-2016 10:28 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Matthews is a bit more right than the democratic party is.

(11-01-2016 08:21 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 10:28 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Matthews is a bit more right than the democratic party is.

He seems younger, but remember Matthews was born in 1945 -- he's older than Hillary! and older than Trump. He grew up in Philadelphia during the Truman/Eisenhower years and actually remembers when cities like Detroit and Buffalo and Pittsburgh and Newark and Rochester had growing, thriving middle-class neighborhoods and stable economies that supported them. And he knows that over the past 40 years, the Democrats in general and the Clintons in particular have not lifted a finger to help, as those neighborhoods and those economies circled the drain.

None of this makes him a "conservative", but it does mark him as a man unlikely to fall for the Clintons' particular brand of white-suburban yuppie-bullsh*t.

(11-01-2016 08:37 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 08:21 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 10:28 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Matthews is a bit more right than the democratic party is.

He seems younger, but remember Matthews was born in 1945 -- he's older than Hillary! and older than Trump. He grew up in Philadelphia during the Truman/Eisenhower years and actually remembers when cities like Detroit and Buffalo and Pittsburgh and Newark and Rochester had growing, thriving middle-class neighborhoods and stable economies that supported them. And he knows that over the past 40 years, the Democrats in general and the Clintons in particular have not lifted a finger to help, as those neighborhoods and those economies circled the drain.

None of this makes him a "conservative", but it does mark him as a man unlikely to fall for the Clintons' particular brand of white-suburban yuppie-bullsh*t.

But it's taken him almost 25 years to figure it out. I guess he's a slow read.

(11-01-2016 08:37 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 08:21 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  None of this makes [Matthews] a "conservative", but it does mark him as a man unlikely to fall for the Clintons' particular brand of white-suburban yuppie-bullsh*t.

But it's taken him almost 25 years to figure it out. I guess he's a slow read.