(03-12-2018 05:17 PM)illiniowl Wrote:  

(03-12-2018 04:35 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-12-2018 03:21 PM)Clad Scheme Owl Wrote:  

(03-09-2018 01:48 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Ya know, if he pulls this off, it will make it harder for the Democrats to say he is unfit, stupid, a Russian puppet, ignorant, ineffective, yada, yada, yada. I think they will depend on the blind pig saying.
IF it happens.

Trump could cure cancer and the left would still focus on Russian collusion.

He could cure cancer and he would still be called all the names they call him now.
There was no collusion, but it is a convenient way to explain how Hillary lost.

Spoiler alert: He won't be curing cancer.
It is laughably inconsistent to say you have all the evidence you need to declare the Mueller investigation a witch hunt and a nothingburger but to counsel a judicious "wait and see" approach to whether Donald J. Trump is indeed just the man to solve possibly the world's thorniest and most pressing geopolitical issue. One would think, after 15 months, we might just have enough evidence to make confident predictions on that one as well.
I say all of the above as a card-carrying Republican. You do not have to be a dyed-in-the-wool MSNBC partisan to find Trump "unfit, stupid, ignorant, ineffective." I doubt he's "a Russian puppet" but that doesn't mean he's not their useful idiot, and anyway, since he stood on a stage and asked Russia to get Hillary's emails, I'm fine with the cops conducting a collusion investigation and letting the chips fall where they may.

I guess one of the problems I have with all this is that I just don’t see standing on the stage and asking Russia to get Hillary’s emails (which is taking some liberty in characterizing what Trump actually said) as evidence of any collusion (which is not a crime) nor conspiracy (which is).

I see electing a president as hiring someone for a job. If he does the job I want done, I’m happy. If not, I’m not. I was pretty happy with Trump’s first year, except I wish they had replaced Obamacare with Bismarck. But when he gets into immigration and trade wars, I’m not as happy.