Red State/Blue State

The best political show-hands down-this Political Season goes to Joy Reid on AM Joy Saturday & Sundays on MSNBC. She is definitely the only one who has been asking the right questions of any of the surrogates. May I add that the Donald Trump surrogates are more to be pitied than censured? In this weird political climate, where the Right and Left, who can agree on almost nothing, have come together in their  mutual dislike of Donald Trump, we find very few people willing to buck the trend and actually go on television to defend Donald Trump and his hard-to-follow and ever-changing policy positions. Joy Reid has not only called out several of the less than stellar members of the surrogate brigade, (she had the sad Pastor who lied and walked off the CNN set on her  Saturday show before the rest of the media got wind of him), but also has been the only pundit willing to question the Media's own highly questionable judgment regarding their constant and never-ending scrut...

Trump has made himself the butt of the joke. It didn't have to be this way…they could have been somebody, they could have been a contender …but the extreme right Tea Party wing of the GOP has let the  side down. They took over the party and have ended up with this mushy mishmash of policy and fantasy combined They did seem to bring it on themselves. The back story of the birther movement, the mystique of building a giant wall across the border and enticing Mexico to pay for it, the idea that we would get so "tired" of winning that it would simply be a routine thing….all of these tell a sad tale of disarray and delusion within the voting bloc of the right. All that's missing is Harold Hill with a pinstripe jacket and the chorus of 76 Trombones. At this point, in true con artiste fashion, it looks like Trump will board the last train out of town at the end of the night and chug off to form his own TV network, taking his marbles and those of his disgruntled vote...