Honestly, the little reality TV I have seen consisted of backstabbing and pure selfishness. Trump is FAR worse than any of it.

of his attitude toward women, and he knew the mic was on in that situation. None of this should be a surprise.

And while its shocking to hear it from the pigs mouth, it can't be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

The republican party should have known sooner since he has been a media subject numerous times over the past few decades.

One thing bugging me is why in the hell it took him being a candidate for someone to be outraged about it. Several people behind the scenes must have seen it.

Idi Amin's campaign?

I was visiting family and hadn't looked at the news since the morning. I picked up my phone while everyone else was talking and as usual, before I ever hit the Huffington Post app I think, "What fresh hell...?", but this was on a whole other level. I couldn't believe the headline and told my sister to check it out.

This had my sister reminding me of how she was assaulted by her boss years ago. She was a temp worker and he called her into his office, then grabbed her and kissed her. She was stunned and told the temp agency who immediately pulled her from the job and dropped his contract. This was in the 1980's and that is exactly how you deal with a creep who thinks he can do anything to women because of his position. What the hell has happened? We've seemed to have gone down the toilet thanks to the GOP and their Trump.

(well, he did but they edited it out). Since that was the case, they thought he belonged on that pedestal they put him on.

I guess the joke's on them for a change. Yes, they are deeply shocked. No, he's not going to recover completely from this.

We must give Clinton a Congress that doesn't simply block her at every turn

not all, but enough of them. They are adept at hiding their true natures from the public except on the occasions when one of them is caught in flagrante delicto with their latest extramarital boy toys or some hot chick. Then we get a glimpse of their true selves. Of course they knew what Trump was like, they just expected him to be more discrete about his crudeness and keep his lewd behaviors quiet... like they do.

Its the old boys club rules, with enough wealth and power, men can, and do, get away with anything.

would get MINIMAL media exposure. I think that they were really taken by surprise, not by what Trump said or that it was on tape, but that the coverage was not just below the fold on page B9 of the Washington Post and 3 minutes on MSNBC.

he had never run for office before.
He had enough income ( and his plane) to just announce and start running for president.

Only that a recording was made public. CNN has been looking through old interviews with Howard Stern. Trump has been in the race a year, and they only now think he might have said something objectionable on the public airways? The GOP and the media are responsible for Trump. Neither vetted him.

More recordings are coming. A producer of the Appretice said the tape with Billy Bush is tame compared to what they recorded Trump saying.

But we will have a crazy subgroup of the American population to deal with. I hope we win both houses and some governorships, because crazy never gives up, unlike many of the Democratic Party.

He was free to scream anything he wanted at his rallies

The whole corrupt, corpulent party needs a colossal psychological enema.