SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET: 

TRUMP – It's the talk of the town, a Trump tape from years ago featuring Trump's vulgar comments about women.  It is stunning in its sleaziness, and there is no defense.  Some Republicans, like Representative Jason Chafffetz of Utah, are withdrawing their support for Trump, and Speaker Paul Ryan disinvited Trump from an upcoming event.  Hillary Clinton tweeted her sense of horror at Trump's taped comments, demonstrating that her hypocrisy generator is alive and well.  She's married, after all, to Mr. Vulgarity himself.  Trump released a brief video offering a half-hearted apology for his behavior, but otherwise remaining his usual defiant self.  Is this a turning point?   Is this the body blow that will finish Trump?  I don't know.  The next presidential debate is Sunday night, and maybe that will make a difference.  But for the first time we're hearing talk, just talk, of replacing Trump on the ticket.  This is serious.

HILLARY – Wikileaks released a new batch of Clinton emails, and the transcript of some of her private speeches.  Clinton had the good luck to see these new releases on the same day that Donald Trump is enveloped in scandal.  The releases, though, reveal Clinton as a soulless manipulator, openly bragging that she says one thing in public and another thing privately.  She also is caught calling for open borders, not the most popular idea, and sucking up to Wall Street, which will not help her with the Bernie Sanders crowd.  A new batch of Clinton material is expected from Wikileaks soon.  With these revelations, and Trump's sex scandal, we can truly say that America has been given the worst choices for president of any recent election.  Whoever is elected will also be despised.  New polls still show Clinton ahead, and a likely winner.  If the GOP had nominated any of its other choices, things might well be going heavily the other way.  I hear people talking of the 2020 election already, as if this one is worthy of being forgotten.

I AM SHOCKED – FROM DAILY CALLER:  Liberal activist groups are mobilizing their supporters to stack Sunday night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump with questions designed to be hostile to Trump.  The debate is a “town hall style” event, with questions coming from the audience. But those questions and the questioners will be pre-screened so as to not be out of left field or redundant. As part of the process for picking questions and topics, CNN and ABC News have “agreed to consider the Top 30 questions voted up” on the website “Presidential Open Questions.”  Liberals are attempting to vote up questions that they think would entrap Trump.  I'm just shocked that our liberal friends would do something like this.  It must be a mistake.  We know that the Clintons are renowned for their fairness and openness.

October 7, 2016