Yeah, it's ironic. You have similarly scummy and opportunistic name-calling behaviour occurring among both sets of partisan idealogues and they complain that the other guy is doing it...!

And if any politician tries to take the high road and not behave that way, he gets accused of being a "wimp" or of being "boring" and he loses public support...

It's not just your enemies that are laughing, pdq, it's the whole world laughing at you with your endless and ridiculous election circus. Mind you, it's nervous laughter. We know how dangerous America can be with its oversized military machine and some unstable criminals in command of the government.