Why Is Trump So Far Ahead?

So, never mind that Trump-o has a small lead over Joe in the swing-state polls, the real question is how do you explain a 50-point bulge over any of his competitors in the GOP primary campaign?

Actually, there are two reasons for how things seem to be shaking out in GOP-land.

For one thing, the GOP field is a bunch of Humpty-Dumpty’s who are so pathetically weak that my cat Leonard Mermelstein would probably beat any of them out in a poll, never mind an actual vote.

I watched about 30 minutes of the debate last week and I couldn’t believe that these are the people who are vying to become the head of a national political party in the United States.

I mean, I could see someone like Vivek Ramaswamy or Nikki Haley running things in a country, let’s say, like San Marino, whose total population (34,000) is about the same as the number of people who live in a New York City housing project in East New York.

But run the government of the United States? Are you serious?

Not that Orange Shithead demonstrated any management ability beyond sitting behind the Resolute desk and posing for pictures with various Oval Office guests. But to his credit, at least after doing a quick photo op, El Trump-o would then take his guests across the hall to a room where he would sell them a set of…