Letters: America's choice - Misogynist Trump, reckless Clinton

ISSUE | CAMPAIGN 2016

As if women needed one more reason to mistrust and dislike Donald Trump, he has dismissed as "locker-room banter" his boasts in 2005 that, as a celebrity, he could kiss and grope any woman and get away with it. Trump offered a halfhearted and weak apology, but is it too late? If Trump loses the woman's vote by the margins forecast, his bid for the presidency is basically doomed. Maybe that would be divine justice for his blatant and wanton misogyny.

|Ken Derow, Swarthmore

All of these Republican politicians, such as Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), rescinding their endorsement of Donald Trump because he talked about grabbing a woman's you know what. But when he insulted people of color, the disabled, veterans, and America, they never took the opportunity to withdraw their support. Ah, yes - the age of hypocrisy.

|Anthony Johnson, Philadelphia, johnsonanthony99@hotmail.com

How long will it take for U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) to tell the voters where he stands on Donald Trump's candidacy? Does he have the courage to do so, or is retaining his seat more important?

|Edward Mathis, Media, ejmphd1@gmail.com

How can Donald Trump be considered a viable candidate? A cartoon, cardboard, reality-host caricature, he has moved perilously close to the most important job in the world. His hateful, vitriolic persona has no place in our electoral process. It's incomprehensible that any voters could be "undecided." Hillary Clinton is a poised, polished public servant. Make the right choice on Nov. 8. The country's future depends on it.

|Belva Wilson, Folsom

Republican or Democrat? No matter.

The venom spewed by both candidates in Sunday's debate was more in character of a soap opera than a presidential campaign. There's nothing presidential about this campaign. It must give other countries pause, thinking, "If this is democracy, maybe I'll pass." It's an embarrassment.

|Cindy Gelman Singer, Philadelphia

Donald Trump speaks recklessly at times, but Hillary Clinton has a consistent record of reckless actions and words. She used a private server for classified email. She gave preferential treatment to governments that gave money to the Clinton Foundation. She wants a common market, open trade, and open borders. She wants to increase the capital gains and death taxes and institute a tax on companies that leave the country.

Trump's candidates for the Supreme Court believe in our freedoms of religion, speech, and Second Amendment rights.

Trump knows how to build jobs; Clinton has nothing but destruction to show for her time in public office. Clinton will unmake America; Trump will make America great again.

|Barbara Howard, Nampa, Idaho

I do not understand any family earning less than $150,000 voting for Donald Trump. He is the poster child for the top 1 percent, whose policies brought us to the edge of a depression in 2008. Why support the policies that put you in such hardship for the last decade.

You may want Trump because you do not like the current state of the country. The presidential candidates can promise all sorts of things, but it is Congress that makes them happen.

Take a careful look at those running for Congress if you want change. What is the candidate's values and long-term record? Just because a candidate once differed from the party line does not make him or her an agent for change.

|Timothy Walsh, Havertown, timpeg@verizon.net

The Donald's decision to run for president may be his undoing, not only politically but financially. Trump's extolling his "shrewd" business skills by treating everyone he has worked with as though they were chumps may be coming back to haunt him. The scrutiny of his presidential candidacy has brought to light his unsavory and possibly illegal business practices.

Would you do business with Trump?

The disclosure of the way he runs his foundations is looking suspicious. His attitudes and interactions with women and other groups have left a bad taste.

Trump's hubris to conduct his campaign and possibly run the presidency as he did his reality TV show, without taking responsibility for what he says or does, has shown the country who he really is.

|Gary Scarpello, Dresher, gscarp@comcast.net