0034 - 16FEB2016 - The show goes on...

And then, all of a sudden, we come to realize that the show has moved from the three-ring Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus, to the octagon of the Mixed Martial Arts arena…

In the first round Bozo (Trump) and Pennywise (Cruz) got engaged in a contest to see who could call each other a liar faster and louder; it quickly escalated to a very unsavory brawl… Meanwhile Honey Booboo (Bush) woke up in the second round and started to complain that Bozo was calling his family names and started to quiver (I thought for a minute he was going to cry). Later, little Bongo (Rubio) decided he needed to get in the action in the 3^rd round and started to shrill and stump his feet because ‘it was Clinton the one who was guilty for the 9/11 attack’… Literally, there seems to have been only two grownups in the room: Kasich, who is in general very sound and stays above that fray (but is getting borderline weird with his message of ‘love and reconciliation’), and then Ben Carson who, at one time, I am sure was a master of the electronic scalpel, but, at this moment cannot speak his way out of a paper bag…  What a spectacle folks… 

This is my 11^th rodeo - presidential election, that is - in the USA (my first one was Carter Vs. Ford in 1976) and I had gone through four rounds in Venezuela before that… Never could I imagine that I would be witnessing the degradation in civility, manners, respect and demeanor that these characters, who aspire to be the leader of the greatest country on Earth, have taken this process down to…

Ah, but this is not all… In the previous match, Ronald McDonald decided she cannot convince anybody that she has anything original to offer, or anything that people could find her credible on; so, what does she do? What every loser with complete lack of integrity does: start to change the focus from them to their opponent, and try to discredit them; it is called climbing up on someone else’s back because you don’t have one to stand on… Then there is Bernie Sanders who seems to have gotten stuck on Wall Street and cannot move any further that that…

Is it also very amusing to watch the political morning shows (MSNBC, CNN & FOX): all the pundits walk around like zombies with their jaws dropped to the floor: they cannot believe what was said in the latest debate and how it was said, and cannot figure out why the polls show Bozo so far ahead, or where this process is going to…

Now, to make things more complicated, and to define a battle with far more consequences than the presidential election, Justice Antonin Scalia died. In two days it has already created more animosity and crisis than the election; the whole power base of the republic is in turmoil: The Executive branch (the President) must appoint a successor to Scalia, but they are told not to bother; the Judiciary branch (Supreme Court) is incomplete without the 9^th Justice and many cases would not be heard or adjudicated letting the lower court decision prevail; the Legislative branch (the Senate) is obligated to advise and consent but they have bowed to do neither until Obama is out of office… This is UGLY!