Over at the Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog D.B. Tucker has some harsh words for those people who say “they can’t vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump; they’re both equally awful.”

I wouldn’t call those folks “miserable figures” as he does, but I would question their judgment. I remember being astonished at Ralph Nader’s complaint that there was no difference between the Democrats and Republicans in 2000. I looked at Al Gore and saw a highly-competent politician with a lot of brainpower. I looked at George W. Bush and saw a guy who had skated through most of his business career on the backs of his father and his father’s friends and one whose economic and tax plans were the same warmed-over “coddle the rich” ideas that his party always proposed.

The idea that Hillary Clinton, a former Senator, former Secretary of State and former advocate for health care and for children can’t be distinguished from a serial womanizer and serial debt-defaulter whose speech is full of vulgarity and whose only known skills are as a marketer of his name on real estate properties, a man who has never held public office or shown any interest in or knowledge of public service is preposterous. Anyone who says otherwise is making excuses for him or herself.