PARTY PLATFORM A THING OF THE PAST – To use a familiar phrase – back in the day – a party platform, outlining the party’s agenda, was an expected product of the convention; a kind of “to do list” to enable voters to understand the party’s goals. This year it has gone the way of those “smoke-filled rooms.”
“Without a Platform, Trump Falls,” headlined the Wall Street Journal editorial by William A. Galston, who writes that the failure of the Republican National Committee to draft a new platform for 2020 might just might result in President Trump losing his reelection bid. No way.
‘It deprives the party’s candidates of an authoritative account of the Trump administration’s accomplishments,” writes Galston, who adds that it doesn’t “offer an agenda for the president’s second term.”
“The conventional wisdom is that elections featuring a sitting president are referendums on the incumbent’s record,” says Galston.
Obviously, Galston, after four years, has yet to grasp that President Trump’s Republican Party is no longer the party of the establishment. “We’ve always done it that way,” is not in Trump’s DNA. He’s really not a politician.
His accomplishments are well-known and he’s telling voters what he plans to achieve in his second term. A printed multi-page party platform document usually winds up gathering dust on a shelf.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PLATFORM, the so-called Manifesto, a 91-page document is available to read on the Internet. There’s even a PDF should you want to print a copy. You should at least read it. It will scare the hell out of you. It was drafted by radicals of the Sanders and Warren campaigns.
In it, you will note their desire to make Washington DC the 51st state, to provide a roadmap to citizenship for millions of undocumented individuals, and a plan to create federal funding for higher education, to mention but a few ways they want to change our lives.
When it comes to our defense, the Manifesto states that we spend 13 times more on the military than we do on diplomacy. Just as they want to send a social worker to respond to a 911 call from a woman claiming abuse, they would send a diplomat to stop a terrorist uprising where our citizens may be in danger.
I don’t think Joe Biden has read it. Or would he understand what it means.
A VOTE FOR TRUMP-PENCE and your Republican representatives and senators has never been more important. By now you should know that.
THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC again proves that it is not a “news”paper.
The U.S. economy grew at a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter. Industries most hurt by spring lockdowns bounced back strongly, including vehicles sales, health care and even food services and recreation.
Yet, the lead page one story in the Republic concerned a draft choice for the Coyote hockey team. At the bottom of the page, were just three lines of copy with a small headline, “GDP accelerates in 3Q.” Commonly referred to as a “filler” in the newspaper lingo.
CNN and MSNBC, call themselves 24-hour news networks, but their prime-time news shows failed to mention the record increase.
It’s what we have come to expect from the leftist media. Avoid publishing news that makes the Trump administration look good, especially close to Election Day.
THEN THERE’S THIS – The Arizona Republic has such an early evening printing deadline that final nighttime sports results cannot be found in the following morning sports section. A Monday night game report appears in the Wednesday morning edition.
Occasionally, the Republic (and maybe your newspaper, too) will rerun articles when they run out of material. Earlier this week, the Republic published the same article on subsequent days. A color photo was used in one edition reporting the Rams win over the Bears. It happens in other sections, too.
BLACKS FOR TRUMP – While the president and members of his staff met with Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson, America’s first black billionaire and black celebrities, like Ice Cube and Lil Wayne, all who have spoken highly of the president’s willingness to listen, they stopped short of endorsing him for reelection. Meanwhile, polls seem to preview polls showing sizeable increases over the eight percent black vote he received in 2016.
While the Hill-HarrisX poll had Trump at 24 percent approval from black voters just after the August Republican Convention, the latest Rasmussen poll reveals that nearly a third of black voters would vote to reelect President Trump “if the presidential election was held today.”
While Johnson considers Trump “more reliable on the economy, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis,” and suggested that he would vote for Trump, he stopped short of endorsement, according to Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media.
“I absolutely do not know what Vice President Biden will do,” Johnson said. “I haven’t heard anything coherent out of what he said he would do.”
Ice Cube and Lil Wayne praised the president for his interest in developing what has been called the Platinum Plan for Black America, while the Democrats said they wouldn’t address the plan until after the election. It seems that the Dems are still taking blacks for granted.
PONDER THIS quote from former President Harry Truman: “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” How prescient. He said that when Joe Biden was just a child.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
