Commentary
A fellow golfer approached me on the course wanting to know how I viewed the upcoming presidential election. I told him I was concerned, alluding to the low information voters who fall for the negative sound bites from the Harris-Walz campaign.
Low information voters, you may recall, are those persuaded by tales conjured from focus groups that become campaign talking points. Claims that former President Trump will put forth a national ban on abortion; that he will put a sales tax on everything you buy; that he will cut Social Security. All outright lies.
Seeing desperation rising in the Harris camp, the leftist media came to her rescue with pieces in the New York Times and The Atlantic quoting from Bob Woodward’s new book, and remarks made by despondent individuals close to Trump in his first term, including Generals Kelly and Milley.
Harris saw it as an opportunity to use the allegations to salvage her fading campaign. Making a rare appearance at the entrance to her Washington residence, she said Trump is “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” while commenting on his alleged remarks as “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous.”
“That may explain why Ms. Harris seized on Mr. Kelly’s comments on fascism in recent days in hopes of motivating her existing supporters to turn out while also persuading undecided voters to back her,” wrote Peter Baker in the New York Times.
But, do those low information voters know that two individuals, Brig. Gen Keith Kellogg, national security advisor to former Vice President Pence, and Nick Ayers, Pence’s former chief of staff, have referred to the allegations by Kelly and others as “patently false,” with Kellogg adding the Harris “is a fraud?”
The radical leftist Vice President Harris threw more fuel on the hoax that former President Trump is a fascist while participating in a CNN townhall last Wednesday.
“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” – Anderson Cooper, CNN
“Yes, I do. Yes, I do.” Vice President Harris,
And, do those low information voters remember the 24-hour promises made by Biden and Harris?
“The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It’s time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do this.” President Biden, July 14, 2024
“With this election, our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past.” – Vice President Harris, August 22, 2024
In about one month, Harris went from referring to Trump as an “unserious” man who only “thinks of himself,” to bitter rhetoric, calling him “a fascist” who is “incredibly dangerous.”
The inconsistency of the choice of words used by Biden and Harris in July and August versus now in the closing weeks of the campaign reminds me of Number 34 in the late Rush Limbaugh’s list of Undeniable Truths of Life – Words mean things:
“The Democrats know that. Reducing things to feelings make you the most easily manipulated people in the worlds, and the left knows this.”
I would like to think that those low information voters don’t approve of Harris’s vicious name-calling, names far worse than Trump’s words for her – “incompetent,” and “stupid.”
Businessman vs. Career Politician
As someone with four decades of marketing and advertising experience, I continue to marvel at the marketing genius of Trump, the man who came up with Making America Great Again and America First, two positive slogans.
When Harris couldn’t prove that she once made French fries at a McDonald’s, Trump showed up at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, donned an apron and took instructions from a young employee. The media went crazy.
When Biden referred to Trump supporters as “garbage,” Trump climbed up into a huge trash hauler truck, wearing an orange safety vest, and spoke to reporters from the window. Later, while speaking to a crowd in Green Bay, Wisconsin, following remarks from former Packer quarterback Bret Farve, he reminded supporters that Biden believes 250 million Americans are garbage.
Yesterday, billionaire Harris endorser Mark Cuban insulted women who work with Trump while appearing on “The View.” This, too, will stimulate the Trump team and take my word, it will not just blow over in 24 hours. We will be hearing from successful women in Trump’s world.
The left didn’t learn from Obama’s insult of “white middle class voters, bitter clinging to their guns and religion,” and Hillary’s “deplorables” remark about Trump supporters.
While Harris and Walz have resorted to vicious name-calling in the final days Trump is asking crowds, “are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
I simply find it hard to believe the race is as close as we are led to believe, primarily because the polls cannot account for respondents who refuse to honestly say who they support. Then there’s the failures of the Biden-Harris administration – high prices, illegal immigration, a lack of security at home and on the streets. Are voters who believe we have been on the wrong track looking for a train wreck.
I want it to be a landslide for Trump.
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
