Posts by Gary Pearce
Everything Has Changed
With one tweet last Sunday afternoon, President Biden transformed the 2024 race – from a same-old, same-old election to a stark choice between past and future, hate and hope, grievance and progress. Suddenly, only one party is trying to elect an 80-year-old President who mixes up names, mangles his thoughts and looks to be in…
Read MorePower Party
With President Biden’s age off the agenda, maybe now the media will focus on the Republican Party’s agenda for America. Ronald Reagan’s party of limited government, individual freedom, decentralized power and resistance to totalitarian rule in the world is dead, gone and – after last weeks’ Republican National Convention – buried. The new world order…
Read MoreNo Quit
Years of political battles taught me this: You ain’t beat ‘til you quit. There’s too much quit in the Democratic Party right now. Yes, President Biden’s poll numbers are perilous, and pressures on him to quit are enormous. Still, I’m not convinced that Vice President Kamala Harris would be a stronger candidate, even if she…
Read MoreAR-15s and Project 2025
For years, MAGA Republicans have fetishized AR-15s, the weapon Trump’s assailant used. They wear AR-15 lapel pins and pose brandishing the high-powered assault rifles. Now, in an Olympic-worthy feat of mental gymnastics, Trump’s acolytes claim that the AR-15 attack makes Trump and Project 2025 off-limits to campaign criticism. Get real. After Paul Pelosi was brutally…
Read MoreThe Thom Tillis Twist
Senator Thom Tillis twisted himself into contortions with this tweet last week: “Huge news for Wilmington, the Department of Transportation will be awarding $242 million to replace the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge! I was proud to advocate for the project to @SecretaryPete on behalf of North Carolina and co-author and help get the bipartisan infrastructure…
Read More“Say a prayer for our country”
The night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, April 4, 1968, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy spoke to an audience in a Black neighborhood in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is part of what he said: “In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask…
Read MoreMedia Mania
The political media’s feeding frenzy over President Biden is an extraordinary development in this campaign. Their arrogance will be studied and scrutinized in political, journalistic and academic circles for years. Washington reporters and commentators seem genuinely angry – even personally insulted – that Biden hasn’t acceded to their judgment, or demand, that he exit the…
Read MoreSwitching Horses
Since 1968, political parties that changed horses in midstream have ended up drowning. That year, antiwar Democrats forced President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the race. Robert Kennedy ran and was killed. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Gene McCarthy fought all the way to the convention in Chicago. There, police battered and bloodied protesters in…
Read MoreTrump 2025 vs Climate Change
As you swelter through the heat, see 120-degree-plus temperatures in the Southwest and follow the first-ever June Category 5 hurricane (photo), look at what Trump’s Project 2025 says he would do and why: “Break Up NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) …which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components…. “Together,…
Read MoreI’ve Heard Enough
I’ve heard enough from a media lynch mob that obsesses over President Biden’s senior moments and overlooks Trump’s lifetime of lies and crimes. I’ve heard enough from Democrats who would give in to the mob, give up on the President and give Trump and MAGA Republicans a huge psychological victory four months before the election.…
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