31-10-2016, 20:25
(31-10-2016, 19:36)peiowl Wrote: If you don't think this has anything to do with sexism and applying different standard to male and female candidates, consider this hypothetical scenario SCO.
A 70 year old woman candidate brags about being able to shove her tongue down men's throats while grabbing their balls. She wants to keep out Mexicans, build a wall, calling them "rapists," "bad hombres." She does a tasteless imitation of a man with a disability. Then she publicly attacks the family of a fallen US soldier (who happens to have been a Moslem).
Would she even be in the running?
Of course not. So, why is Trump?
It shouldn't be acceptable from any candidate but I don't believe its because he is a man that he is getting away with it. Thurny is closer with the answer in my opinion, Trump does not need money from lobbyists, institutions or even the Republican party themselves, he can finance this on his own, so he is getting no outside pressure as such to stand down with all these things surrounding him. In the past when revelations like this have appeared with either party the candidate has been forced to stand down by either the party itself, the leadership or the financial backers, well in this case Trump is not beholden to any of them and despite the majority of the Republican hierarchy not wanting him as their candidate there is essentially nothing they can do about it!! He won the nomination fair and square, so unless they want to completely rewrite their laws and rules they are stuck with him.
Also remember, most candidates want to have a job in Government after an election or after they are forced out of a race, and so they tow the party line, Trump doesn't need a job guarantee from anyone, he is his own man and therefore cannot be forced to do anything he doesn't want. He is a trashy human being and he is not fit to hold the office imo, but he has so far done everything with regards to being the Republican nomination the correct way and simply got the most votes. He has so far done nothing that is illegal or that he has been found guilty of, so there is no legal precedence to get him on either, therefore the election laws and system over here cannot stop him from standing irrespective of how immoral or bigoted or racist etc you or I consider him to be, you just have to hope that enough people dislike Hillary a little less and therefore don't vote for him, but I am not sure that is the case and it potentially could be a close race in the end!!