Commentary
Listening to Vice President Harris’s campaign speech at Washington’s Crossing, Pennsylvania Wednesday, I was struck by her sharpened attacks on former President Trump.
“It is clear Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged … unfit to serve … fascist to the core … dangerous to this country” … were among her attack lines, some hers and some she attributed to former Trump advisors.… read more
Commentary
Ironically, as I leafed through the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal, I saw a feature, “Where Do Never Trumpers Go From Here,” a subject on my blog to do list.
As I read the subhead on the Journal piece, It’s decision time for the five tribes of the anti-Trump right, I wondered which tribe my friend, Tom, would belong.… read more
Commentary
There she is, Kamala Harris, “The Candidate of Our Times,” according to the November edition of Vogue magazine.
How inopportune for the candidate, who claims a middle-class upbringing, and is now struggling to win over middle-class voters, to allow herself to be featured on the cover of a magazine published for “women 20 to 40, who are successful and beautiful and want to be aware of all novelties in fashion and beauty.”… read more
Commentary
Facing criticism over the lack of unscripted interviews since entering the race, Vice President Harris went on a media blitz that did little to convince voters that she was presidential material.
Of the four shows on which she appeared, only 60 Minutes gave her an opportunity to show her credentials on what is considered a “news” show, unlike The View, Stephen Colbert, Howard Stern and Call Her Daddy, all unserious talk shows, and she squandered it.… read more
Commentary
The Communicator
When former President Trump took the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania Saturday, where a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear 12 weeks ago, he turned slightly to the right for seconds before saying, “As I was saying.” The crowd, in excess of 100,000, roared.
Who, other than Trump, could begin drawing a crowd at 6 a.m.,… read more
Commentary
Sacramento, Mesa, Kansas City, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Omaha, and Raleigh are all cities with populations of approximately 530,000. In addition, Miami, Virgina Beach, Long Beach, Oakland, and Minneapolis have populations of about 400,000.
No … this isn’t a geography demographics test. I just want you to have a clear idea of why these numbers should be of importance to you as an American taxpayer as immigration and the economy top the list voter concerns.… read more
Commentary
“When Vice President Dick Cheney left office, his approval rating stood at a staggering low 13 percent. Few political figures have been so reviled.” – from Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney, by Conor Friedersdorf, in The Atlantic.
We’ve seen it before, primarily among fickle Democrats, who have turned once hated Republicans into saints, however, it usually happens after someone passes away. … read more
Commentary
I have frequently been critical of the Biden administration’s oft-repeated effort to paint former President Trump as a threat to our democracy commenting on the left’s playbook of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
I’ve decided to address this issue again since Democrat Tim Walz and Special Counsel Jack Smith recently surfaced Trump’s threat to democracy in the January 6 riot on the Capitol.… read more
Commentary
We are now witnessing the election year “October surprise?” that is sure to affect the success of the Harris-Walz ticket, as dockworkers from Maine to Texas out on strike, a move that is sure to seriously affect the supply chain for a wide-variety of goods.
Already guilty of fostering policies that have increased prices at the pump, in supermarkets and for services, a long strike going into Election Day will now be on the minds of voters in the next 30 days.… read more
Commentary
On September 26, 2024, in my commentary, “C’mon, Get Serious: Kamala Harris as President of the United States?” I credited Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan for referring to Harris as an “artless dodger, (who) evades every question of substance.”
I found Noonan’s perception of a deadlocked race between two presidential candidates quite original, referring to Harris as “Empty,” and Trump as “Awful.”… read more