Hillary is Finally Getting Her Money's Worth
At this point I don't think there is any serious doubt that Trump is part of Clinton's campaign. Only an entirely stupid man or a saboteur would run a presidential campaign the way Trump has. Since Trump has made enough of an empire for himself I can't bring myself to believe that he's entirely stupid so that leaves the other obvious answer. On top of that he's been friends with the Clintons for a long time and if you look at the positions he's historically held they tend to align with the Democratic Party.
When Trump made his "Grab them by the pussy." comment I was concerned that Clinton may not be getting her money's worth. It appeared that Trump's thinking was so deeply imprinted by his Democratic Party beliefs that he wasn't able to say something that would upset most people within the Republican Party. But while a lot of his supporters did write off his comment as locker room talk or guy talk there was enough public outrage to force the hand of the higher ups within the Republican Party. Those higher ups have started speaking out against Trump and now Trump is delivering the death knell but tearing the Republican Party apart:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opened a new front in his war with House Speaker Paul Ryan, accusing the nation's top elected Republican of being a "very weak and ineffective leader" after Ryan said he would no longer defend the presidential nominee.
"Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty," Trump tweeted, referring to a Monday conference call where some House conservatives challenged Ryan over Trump.
He followed that up with a tweet signaling he may take on Republican Party leaders directly while escalating attacks on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as he tries to salvage his embattled campaign: "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to."
I'm ashamed that I had any doubts about Clinton's strategy. Those Clintons know how to play a mean political game and all of the pieces have fallen into place at this point. The Republicans are at war with one another, which gives the mostly united Democratic Party a major advantage not just in the presidential race but also in other races. Merely being tacitly connected to Trump via the Republican Party is proving to be potentially poisonous to candidates. This little trick may end up giving the Democratic Party both the presidency as well as Congress.
All I can say is bravo to Clinton. Her and her good friend Trump have skillfully played the Republican Party like a fine violin.