Let's play cards
Deal Donald in.
If Hillary is playing the "woman card," then someone please toss a "hate card" to Donald Trump.
There's just not enough time between now and November for The Donald to appear presidential, especially after all the months of red-hot mudslinging and inflammatory rhetoric.
And when the GOP wouldn't do anything about it, ordinary people have taken to protesting. Loudly.
It's unfortunate, but surely no one is surprised. It was just a matter of time after Trump stood in rally after rally and demeaned immigrants, the Black Lives Matter movement and women - often standing at the podium and telling his supporters: "Throw him out" and "Punch him."
If he never slurs anyone again, he still won't be presidential.
He has demeaned democracy and America from the first moment he began his campaign.
On uncivil discourse
Former House Speaker John Boehner is enjoying life on the outside of politics looking in.
That was apparent in his speaking appearance at Stanford University last week when he spoke plainly about politics, especially his polar opposite - the sanctimonious Ted Cruz.
The words Boehner used to describe Cruz that can be printed in a daily newspaper are "Lucifer in the flesh."
Cruz, ever the champion debater, later told reporters that Boehner "allowed his inner Trump to come out."
But it brings up an all-too-familiar lament: This year's presidential campaign has been vile. Just vile.
The GOP candidates in particular have demonstrated every kind of gutter fight that we never want our children to see or hear.
They called each other liars and - on video and into microphones - much, much worse.
A Trump Tower in Russia?
But someone likes Trump - and especially his foreign policy speech from last week.
Russian politicians from President Vladimir Putin on down have been quoted saying favorable things about the GOP presidential front-runner.
It just furthers the Trump/Putin bromance.
Putin recently called Trump "a brighter person, talented without a doubt." Trump returned the compliment saying: "I like him because he called me a genius. He said Trump is the real leader."
Maybe Trump will move to Russia.