You can stop with the pearl clutching nonsense...
Huffington Post makes my point quite well:
Huffington Post headline this morning:
TRUMP PRAISES SADDAM’S BUTCHERY
This little nugget may have passed you by, but the primaries are over, the strategy that works so well in the primaries for Trump won't work in the general...
He already has the media's attention, saying things like "You know what Saddam did so well" is just asking for a negative headline...
Instead of saying such things, he needs to attract moderates and independents to vote for him in the general, giving the left easy talking points like the huffington post headline to keep his negatives up...
His one goal should be to attack Hillary every second of every day not going off on tangents to simulate the media that hates him anyway...
We are in agreement there, though your use as Huff Po as making a point is suspect, to say the least. Do you routinely use liberal trash liners for your talking points? The risk is being seen as a one trick pony that only says bad things about Hillary and that may turn off indies and others who are looking for something other than just how bad Hillary is. That's how Cruz lost (well, one of the reasons he lost) because it was all about how bad Trump was, not what Cruz had to offer. In an election season that has been replete with mistakes, bad predictions and downright stupid comments by the supposed best and brightest punditry has to offer, Trump's tangents, in my view, only make them look more silly because they get wrapped around the axle about the "shining new thing" (Trump's latest "stumble") and miss the fact that he is solely sucking up the oxygen from anything Hillary, Biden, Warren, Obama, etc. have to say. You can see how it is bothering B.O. when he gets into his stuttering mode off teleprompter because Trump lives in his head.