“what is it that has this mind-numbing hold?”
Race, race-baiters and an aggressively hostile media.
We need a candidate who’s man enough-—man or woman, white, black, red, brown or yellow-—to meet this race libel head-on and squash it flat.
Ha.
NO one, not even Reagan if he came back, could meet YOUR qualifications. “Squash it flat”? Uh, the point is to get elected also, not to throw a temper tantrum that would satisfy the “real” conservatives on Freeper.