…it’s pretty obvious to just about anyone who watched tonight’s debate that Donald Trump mopped the floor with Hillary Clinton – his “you’d be in jail” comeback to her is, to date, the line of the campaign, but it wasn’t Hillary who was the loser in tonight’s debate, it was Bill Clinton, whose reputation is pretty much in tatters after Trump rolled out a number of his accusers – i.e., victims – from way back and gave these women a voice the mainstream media has sought to stifle for decades.

Bubba, you might want to put some ice on that.

Rather than poke around the usual ground trod by the usual political talking heads I’m going to offer y’all a perspective that you won’t hear anywhere else, and it’s something you can take to bank because, as you know, The Great White Shank is always right when it comes to these kinds of things.

I can’t help but think that a number of Democrats (African-Americans especially) who still adore Bill Clinton (remember, he’s the “first black president”, right?) is going to hold it against Hillary big time for allowing this issue to enter into the race, and they’ll have a damned good reason for doing so. Think about it: if Hillary had just kept her mouth shut when the infamous Trump video came out on Friday and said something to the effect that she won’t comment on something that happened ten years ago, she’s running for President in 2015, yadda yadda yadda – you know, deflect it instead of attack – none of this would have happened. Not only would she have been seen as a “bigger person” (I know, hard to imagine), but knowing what she knows about Bill’s, er, issues, it would have shown the mark of a skillful politician.

But that’s not Hillary. A less tin-eared politician would have recognized the potential danger and trap, and would have side-stepped the issue. But she couldn’t bring herself to do it. And when she opened that door she gave Trump the chance to counterpunch and open her husband to ridicule and embarrassment. (Of course, it kind of makes one wonder if this wasn’t some form of subconscious payback for what Bill had done to her, but that’s another issue entirely.)

At this point it doesn’t matter. Mark my words: this is going to hurt Hillary politically amongst Democrats who loved her husband and their former president. They will see her as a traitor to him and his legacy. And they won’t forgive her for it.

Just something to think about.