As soon as a republican does what Hillary did, you'll be screaming bloody hell foul!
Yeah, remember when Powell and Rice were subjected to the same scrutiny as Clinton and liberals everywhere were screaming bloody hell!
And that entire Iraq war thing, where liberals went crazy persecuting Bush Jr. and Friends!
Oh, right. Some liberal somewhere posted some mean comments on a message board. Basically the same thing as year-long investigations into Whitewater, Filegate, TravelGate, Vincent Foster, Fast And Furious, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, and finally Email-gazi.
That's how it works, when you're so partisan, you can only see one side of things. I'm sure glad I can admit that both nominees are garbage, with my partisan goggles off. When will you admit that Hillary is an extremely dishonest, irresponsible person? I can't vote for that and I can't vote for Trump and I'm not going to take my integrity down to the level of voting for one of them, just because they happen to be a Republican, Democrat....or a woman.
My hand will have nothing to do with one of them getting elected. I will have written in someone else.
When you can't just blame liberals for everything, the next best thing is to trot out the media tried-and-true BothSidesDoIt canard.
Sure, the Republican base voters decided to nominate a know-nothing reality tv bigot, but, but, the Democratic base chose between a Social Democrat who a lot of people found honest and classy even if they disagree with his views, and a lifelong technocrat who - gasp!- plays to polls because that is what successful politicians do. Especially a female politician in a male-dominated profession.
You can disagree with Clinton's warhawkery, and her center-right positions, as I do, and still be able to objectively observe that here in reality, she'd make a better President than Trump, or Ivanka, or Gary Busey, or whomever Trump is planning on making the VP.
In a first-past-the-post electoral system, there are typically two candidates who can win an office. If I have to vote for the candidate that promises that at most I'll get repeatedly punched in the junk, I'll take that over the candidate that says I might get my throat cut.
But that's partisan! Well, sure as shit is. Until the Republican party joins reality, and tells its base that is trying to make a reality-tv bigot President to grow up, we're stuck with one typically bad political party, and then a batshit insane political party. Lose-lose.
Beam and eye. Get that massive splinter out of your eye, and in doing so, the Democratic party will be forced to put up candidates that aren't just Republican lite.