That is such a vapid statement.
Hey, do you remember when a conservative group got caught up in the "Obamaphone" scandal, where they went around deliberately misinforming people of color until they found some folks who were excited about what the "Obamaphone", and the whole point was to pretend this was the typical Democratic voter?
It really should be a forgettable episode, so it's not the biggest worry if you don't remember. Still, though: What made people laugh was that they were large black women. And I say that because I can watch other people simply repeat the brainless drivel interested parties spoonfeed them, and it's like, sure, he's not jumping up and down all excited, and shit, but he doesn't think he's learning something new; instead, he seems to think he's saying something smart, and informing people. Moreover, he actually seems to be taking himself seriously.
Thus: We're a year out. If these were 2012 Republicans, Michele Bachmann has already had her time atop the field, Herman Cain was a frontrunner, and his lead was eroding for Newt Gingrich. In six weeks, Michele Bachmann would accuse Ron Paul's campaign of impropriety, and while it turns out there really was something awry afoot, Paul's agent escaped prosecution and went to work for Mitch McConnell, while Bachmann's state campaign chair would, ten months later, resign, and shortly thereafter be indicted, and then spend the next three years getting convicted for felonious dealings with the Paul campaign.
That is to say, Republicans didn't get their act together until after primary voting started. Fast-forward to 2016, and it's hard to say Republicans ever really got their act together, unless that many of them really are geniuses and the whole Trump primary was some sort of staged farce that nobody managed to figure out.
As a general rule, "The Democrats haven't really gotten their act together either with their current Presidential candidates", is an uninformed political critique with easy traction for its lack of any real informational critique. If you can manage to string together the words, someone in the room who isn't really listening to you will nod as if agreeing; it's a human behavioral thing.
So here are the problems:
• "The Democrats haven't really gotten their act together ...." — Mayhaps, but compared to what? It's a weird expectation, an easy point of criticism with no obligation to reality. That is to say: They don't have their act together? They're not really supposed to, at this point.
• "... either ...." — It's a strange, extraneous comparison tacked on to what operates as a defense of apparent criminal behavior. That the Democrats, "haven't really gotten their act together … with their current Presidential candidates", is irrelevant to the question of Trump's relationship with Giuliani.
While it's true that site policy, as a practical effect, discourages deeper discussion, you happen to be among those who never were really giving it any sincere effort, so while the piece of advice I would give really ought not be necessary for someone who has been around this place as long as you have, this is where we find ourselves:
Do you really think people don't recognize the same lazy tropes they've endured for longer than you've been here?
