I think your statement here illustrates or exemplifies my point.
Your belief that one candidate’s obvious bad traits justify voting for another candidate with obviously bad traits, illustrates mine.
One other thing: I’ve been involved in campaigns for a couple of decades, and I can say with a high level of certainty that a candidate whose supporters have to admit every five seconds that he stinks to high heaven probably isn’t going to fare well in the election.
Which sort of moots your whole argument, you know?
