Donald Trump's political machine is making a case to the RNC that his issues are personality flaws that can be fixed while Hillary's problems are character flaws that cannot be fixed. I will come back to my view of Hillary's problems, but I fail to see the distinction that Trump's people are making.
What is the desire to uproot the lives of 11 million people? What is the desire to carpet bomb innocent people just so you can kill some terrorists? What is the desire to torture people to get them to lie to you? What is the desire to use shell companies to protect your wealth from your risky decisions that don't work out? What is the desire to tear up our constitution and discriminate based upon religion? What is the desire to denigrate people who don't agree with you? While some of those may be based upon personality they are representative of character also. Personality and character cannot be separated. So Trump's flaws are not fixable in the words of his own political machine.
Hillary's problems are two fold: (i) she has been on the national political scene for 24 years already and the only person in modern times who can claim such longevity is Richard Nixon and people were certainly tired of him; and (ii) like all administrative politicians, Hillary has made some decisions that were not the best, so her decision making is open to criticism. That is why I supported Martin O'Malley initially.
But I can also make the case that for a woman to be nominated and win the Presidency she needs a surplus of experience to convince people that she can be voted for. and Hillary has a surplus of experience.
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