The coming presidential election… will consist of ordering one of three things for dinner: pizza, Indian food, or anthrax. For me Sanders is pretty good Indian food, while HRC on her worst days is Pizza Hut pizza, but the choice between Pizza Hut and anthrax is not a choice in any conceivable sense of the word…
I’d say that HRC on her best days is Pizza Hut pizza but, that quibble aside, overall a pretty good analogy. In a similar vein, Andrew O’Hehir on having to choose between HRC and the Republican nominee come the general:
The 2016 choice is more like last week’s Nestea from the back of the fridge versus a foul-smelling mystery beverage that might be diesel fuel or lawn chemicals or sorority-house vomit, but that someone in a Halloween mask has promised will get you really wasted.
I would have gone with “slightly sour milk” rather than “last week’s Nestea” but again that’s a quibble with what’s overall a pretty good analogy.
No, it won’t be a hard choice for me if it comes to that. If Clinton wins the nomination I’ll vote for her in November. (I desperately want Sanders to win but I’m not holding my breath.) Someone’s going to be President come January 2017. If it’s a Republican then it will be total war on everything that I care about for the following four years. If it’s Clinton then it’ll just be periodic strafing of almost everything that I care about. (To be fair, I think she’d be good on defending voting rights and that she’d nominate reasonable people to the Supreme Court. That’s about the limit of my optimism.) One way or the other 2017-2020 is going to be very ugly. With Clinton I believe the odds of living to fight again another day would be greater so I’ll choke down the stale Pizza Hut pizza and slightly sour milk if I have to. Vomiting and a nasty case of the shits are likely to follow but those are almost certainly better than the side effects of anthrax or diesel fuel/lawn chemicals/sorority-house vomit.
PS Yes, as awful as Trump is I still think Cruz is even more dangerous. Trump generates an immune response in most people whereas Cruz does not.