National Republicans
History: Two Stories
Joe Biden got out of the race. Kamala Harris got in, a legion of Democrats endorsed her, and she raised $50 million in 24 hours. But Harris faces an enigma. Since 1960 Vice Presidents have run for President seven times. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Al Gore all lost. Nixon lost in 1960 but won…
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 MoreWhich Will Do the Least Harm?
Did the Good Lord save Trump, touch his soul? Trump says God saved him. And his son says he’s a changed man. So did Trump have a moment in Butler, Pennsylvania like St. Paul on the road to Damascus? For three days in a row Trump sat quietly in the Republican National Convention, smiling –…
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 MoreLet’s Hope…
Climbing out on a limb George Clooney told Biden not to run – Trump slammed Clooney as a ‘disloyal, backstabber, third-rate movie actor’ – added, ‘He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.’ On one side of the table this election we’ve had an old man who, memory slipping at the NATO…
Read MoreIdols
The first time Ronald Reagan ran for president a lot of Democrats voted for him. Those ‘ticket-splitters’ respected their political party but a candidate’s honesty, character, beliefs mattered more to them than his party. Governor Jim Hunt ran for reelection the same year Reagan won and a lot of those same ticket-splitters voted for Hunt…
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 MoreMirrors
Are Trump and Biden a pair of giants shaping what Americans see, think, believe? Or are Trump and Biden simply mirrors, reflections of what Americans believe? Not long ago if a politician got caught telling a lie he went down in flames. Lies were taboo. Did Trump convince people lies don’t matter? Or is Trump…
Read MoreA Twisted World
Democrats all over the media are saying it’s time for Biden to step aside. David Axelrod said Biden ‘can’t beat father time…it’s likely he loses by a landslide.’ James Carville said ‘the jig is up’ – Biden can’t win. The New York Times called on Biden to get out of the race. Times columnist Maureen…
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,…
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