Reply #90: Both sides play nasty and here is why

[Bluenorthwest]

The candidates are so similar in policy and voting record that the only thing they can talk about it nasty minutia.
Those playing the mud flinging game are, in my view, useful supernumiaries making the theatre that benefits the eventual nominee and the Party as a whole. They are self important and unaware of the role they play, but that it their role. Bickering extras filling out the scene, increasing the dramatic tension without having an affect upon the actual storyline.
In short we have nothing to discuss in terms of candidate differences, but we need a long cycle and this is how we keep the eyes glued to the Democratic Party. Politics is like wrestling and religion, those making the show know it is a bit of a fake.