The Outcome of Monday’s Presidential Debate (Updated)

In a binary race between Clinton-Trump, it’s no contest according to Virginia voters.

In part two of the Wason Center poll from Christopher Newport University:

Twice as many voters, 58-28 percent, say that Clinton, not Trump, has the right temperament to be president, and twice as many (60-26 percent) say that she, not Trump, has the right experience. By a close margin, voters say that Trump is more trustworthy and honest than Clinton, 35-32 percent.

“Despite poor marks for honesty, Virginia voters are clear that Hillary Clinton is far more qualified to be president than is Donald Trump,” said Dr. Quentin Kidd, Director of the Wason Center.

The debate on Monday did Trump no favors, who, by and large, seemed to do well for the first 30 minutes and then devolved into a rambling, sighing, water-guzzling (consider this, GOP voters who hated on Rubio) wreck because he started to get picked on by a girl.

What America saw on Monday was Trump emasculated.

Unfortunately, Clinton advocates policies that will cripple America and are merely an extension of FDR’s “New Deal” in the 1930’s. We have a $20T debt that has nearly doubled under the present administration, yet Madame Secretary would like to raise taxes, make education free through college, and continue the policies that gave you Benghazi, Syria (aka Aleppo) and 33k missing emails.

This, of course, is good enough for our esteemed 30-year US Senator, John Warner, whose real claim to fame was bedding with Elizabeth Taylor for a few years and serving in the Nixon administration.

According to Politico,

The now-retired five-term senator is opting to back Clinton over his own party’s nominee, Donald Trump, as a signal to voters in the swing state of Virginia of who he believes would be best suited to be commander-in-chief. It’s the second straight cycle that Warner has bucked his party: In 2014 he endorsed Democratic Sen. Mark Warner over Republican challenger Ed Gillespie.

Fool me once, shame on you (endorses Marshall Coleman). Fool me twice, shame on me (endorses Mark Warner). Fool me a third time, you’re a Democrat.

Update: Jim Geraghty says it better

John Warner is the kind of Republican who supported Roe v. Wade and embryonic stem cell research, voted for the Brady Bill, sought to extend the Assault Weapons Ban, voted to reject the nomination of Robert Bork, voted against Bill Clinton’s impeachment, broke with the rest of the party on the Terry Schiavo case, was part of the Gang of 14 on the “nuclear option,” co-sponsored a resolution opposing the 2007 surge of additional U.S. troops in Iraq, and cosponsored cap-and-trade legislation.

John Warner is exactly the kind of Republican you would expect to see endorse Hillary Clinton.

That said, forgive the whiplash given the statement I made about a three-party race in 1994, but how is it possible for the Republican party to have nominated and support someone who is “under leveraged”?

At this point in the game, it really is necessary to consider a third option. When you compare what was said, how it was said and who was saying it on Monday to this statement by Gary Johnson, you have to wonder why this man isn’t part of the discussion:

“I heard Donald Trump describing a country I don’t recognize, and I heard Hillary Clinton writing checks we can’t possibly cash.

I suspect a great many of the millions who watched the debate did so in the hope that they would be inspired. With the possible exception of partisans on the extremes, I also suspect they were disappointed.

Americans don’t want their children and grandchildren to inherit a $20 trillion debt, and they didn’t hear anything tonight that will keep that from happening. Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump are afraid to tell the truth about spending. It’s easier to just promise more of it and send the next generation the tab.

Americans believe in the Constitution and the protections it’s supposed to provide. Mr. Trump appears willing to ‘frisk’ those protections away if they get in the way of his version of fixing things. There was a time when Republicans believed in free trade and creating jobs through growth, not protectionism. What happened to that?

Our military men and women and their families deserve leadership they can trust to not send them into harm’s way to intervene in conflicts they can’t possibly resolve and which may or may not have a clear U.S. interest. They didn’t get any reassurance tonight. Americans want our military to protect us, not put their lives on the line to chase someone’s agenda.

We deserve better, but what we saw tonight was a promise that the bickering, the pandering and the polarization will continue. America is already great. It’s great leaders we are lacking, and I don’t think we found them on the stage tonight.”

In this brief statement, Johnson captures longstanding conservative principles: faith in our Constitution, free trade, non-intervention in foreign entanglements, strong national defense – I begin to wonder where our party went and why John Warner has gone off the rails?

Washington said:

“The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. …”

Is Gary Johnson saying anything different?

On one hand, you have Secretary Clinton seeking to further engage in conflict and capitulate to special interests and on the other, you have Mr. Trump looking to start trade wars and hot wars.

To me, the choice is clear. We need to hear a third voice on Oct. 9.

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