[Aquinasfan]

I hate to say it, but this is one of the best analyses of the phenomenon I have read anywhere.

It is! How did we miss the con-man angle before?

[Smokin' Joe]

We were busy trying to hammer him into a political mold, (one which happens to fit, IMO), but the obvious, (that all politicians are con men, only statesmen are not) eluded us all at a fundamental level.

[knarf]

"It is! How did we miss the con-man angle before?"

Where y'bin?

It's too late for words .. too late for legislation .. too late for all the easy stuff .. Now it is hard .... very hard.