Yes, I know, I haven’t been writing nearly as much as I should lately and there’s no excuse for it. Other, of course, then the idea that I don’t have nearly the free time I did before I went on the road.
This evening I find myself in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, which is perhaps 30 miles south of Scranton if you’re looking for it on a map. Cold and clear here tonight. I’ll be leaving for Denver Pennsylvania in a few hours for a 7 a.m. appointment.
I finally got the truck back from the shop after a little over a month up on blocks. I’m still not quite sure what the problem was, but at the center of it was the computer. It’ll sound a little strange to say it this way, but it’s good to be home.
* Even the Democrats know they’re going to take a bath this November. Publicly, they will never admit that Obama was a mistake. Privately, in their hearts, those that still have them at least, know this to be true.
Even absent that factor however, is the quality of the candidates leading the charge on the Democrat side.
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Bernie Sanders is full goose whackjob. Now, certainly, that satisfies a significant portion of the Democrat base, but most Americans aren’t going to sign on for four years of outright socialism. It’s just not going to happen.
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Then we come to Hillary Clinton who is likely to be indicted on several counts of felony level crimes between now and the Democratic convention. Both Clinton and Sanders by virtue of the party, and who they are are forced to recite a litany of failed ideas as policy proposals, none of which are going to fly any farther than I can throw them.
Without some major changes on the Democrat Side which I do not in vision at this point, there will be no Democrat president in January.
That said, it comes down to what the Republicans manage to cough up. None of the establishment GOP candidates are going anywhere.
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Little Jebbie Bush has spent millions of dollars trying to get his campaign kick started, and hasn’t managed to move the needle at all. In the end, he will be a non-factor.
For a while there, as a direct result of Bush not gaining traction it looked like the establishment was going to try and embrace Marco Rubio, but there is a sense that that would be a disaster as well. And by the way, that’s multiple million dollar ad campaign of Bush? A good 40% of it was aimed directly at Marco Rubio. Does that give you a rough idea of how ineffective all that money was?
And in any event, Rubio can’t seem to make a dent in Donald Trump’s armor. So now, the establishment is trying to latch on to Donald Trump who they so vehemently opposed mere weeks ago. There are better examples I’m sure of howl disorganized the thought processes are within the establishment GOP, but I honestly can’t think of any at the moment.
The vitriol coming out of the establishment aimed at Ted Cruz is starting to be seen by the public as such. The momentum is thereby starting to move in his direction. It will be interesting to see if he can maintain it.
I have not settled on a candidate as yet, but I am watching Cruz very closely because at the moment he appears to be the closest of any of them to what I want to see in the White House.
It’s true, that I have defended Trump to some degree in the past. But, I have always said that there are many reasons not to want him in the White House. I was reminded of another one this morning… Trumps endorsement of Bill de Blasio. How anybody could latch on to that little apparatchik is totally beyond me, and I must assume he didn’t think his comment through. His candidacy has served the purpose of conservatism in so far as it has attracted attention to just how bad things are in the establishment GOP. Past that…..
As for the rest of the field, let me say this.If Rubio, McConnell, Hatch, Burr, Graham and the rest of those spineless slugs are the future of the GOP, then the GOP DESERVES to die…a very public and painful death. The GOP establishment has nobody to blame but themselves for the state they find themselves in. No the candidacy of Ted Cruz the candidacy of Donald Trump and whoever else does not mean the defin the GOP. The lack of conservatism exhibited by the leadership is the cause of its death.
And I tell you this, the GOP will either embrace conservatism or that’s precisely what’s going to happen to it.
And down the road I go. I’ll see you tomorrow.