Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Trump boasted, ‘I fight for you harder than any president has ever fought for anyone’ – the video flew across the internet, landed in my inbox with a two-line stab: Remember George Washington fighting for eight years during the Revolution – and at Valley Forge? Staring down from the stage at a legion of admirers,…
Read MoreFlamboyant, fearless, pounding his chest, Trump punched Biden. Fumbling, dodging, doddery, Biden punched back. Fox swooned, Trump won. CNN hissed, Trump’s a fiend. Who won? Here’s a biblical question: Trump’s bad. But Biden’s worse. We’re in a ditch. Ask yourself: Why is our only choice between ‘bad’ or ‘worse?’
Read MoreEvery day, coming face-to-face with ambiguities, seeking answers I study signs but as Christ warned signs, like wolves in sheep’s clothing, can lead us astray. Media polls have Trump down ten, 14, 16 points – but my friends, with fixed certainty, tell me, You can’t trust media polls – they mean nothing. Yet even…
Read MoreTrump brags, name-calls, but to his credit he’s candid – what you see is what you get. He’s a rascal but doesn’t dress it up with high sounding talk. Cal Cunningham’s a rascal too but candor’s not among his virtues: He painted a picture of himself as a small-town boy… to trust… who loves North…
Read MoreAn Odd Thing to Say… It’s been thirty-six years since a president won an election by more than ten points… Obama, Bush, Clinton, George Bush, Senior, none did it – but now Joe Biden is leading Trump by twelve, fourteen, sixteen points in polls; even Fox News has Biden leading by ten. Is Trump sinking?…
Read MoreA thirteen-year-old boy sex texting, maybe…a forty-seven-year-old father, bizarre. Cal Cunningham quoted the motto ‘To Be Rather Than To Seem’ the morning he announced (for Senate) – then smiled ‘that’s me!’ He’s purred, I love North Carolina…I’m a small-town boy…I’m for you…then, boom, she’s married, he’s married, they’re not married to each other, their texts…
Read MoreCourtesy allows people who disagree – Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans – to go on living together in one country; take it away and you live in a perpetual knife fight – like the one we watched the other night between Trump and Biden. It’s tempting to blame Trump – who’s the world champion name-caller. But…
Read MoreThirty years ago Jesse Helms’ campaign aired a negative TV ad about Harvey Gantt – three weeks later I found myself sitting in a room full of campaign consultants and pollsters saying, We just spent $180,000 to air an ad telling voters Harvey Gantt’s on the wrong side of an issue and it hardly moved…
Read MoreI woke up this morning, turned on the TV, and there was an ad from Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund basically calling Cal Cunningham a no good low-life scumbag – it was immediately followed by an ad for Cal Cunningham with Cunningham in it talking sweet and grinning, saying he disagreed with Thom Tillis about…
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Kristi Noem’s attractive. Long brown hair. Glossy lips. A MAGA superstar on Trump’s list of picks…
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Two things have been true throughout American history: We love to protest, but we hate protesters.…
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It used to be Democratic politicians marched in a phalanx behind Israel. Joe Biden did. For…
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