Posted on 11/04/2024 3:12:15 PM PST by jfd1776
Year after year, we are told that we should elect a president who is of this or that demographic group.
And just for the record, speaking just for myself – I would personally be happy to see an Indian-American as president. In fact, I supported Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for the presidency for a while in 2015, before he dropped out.
And I would also be happy to see a woman as president. I supported Congressman Michelle Bachman for the presidency in 2011, before she dropped out.
I would be happy to see an African-American as president; I supported Alan Keyes in 1996 after Bob Dornan dropped out.
Over the decades, in fact, the Republican Party has had a number of terrific candidates for president who belonged to minority groups. Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Sarah Palin, and most recently, Nikki Haley, Larry Elder, and Vivek Ramaswamy have all been major candidates for the Republican nominations for president and vice president.
Now, think back a moment. Of all the people who tell you today to support Kamala Harris because she’s female, part Indian, or part black, how many of them said the same about any of those others listed above?
If it’s so important to the press to have a president be black, why wasn’t the press giving tons of free airtime to Elder, Cain, or Keyes?
If it’s so important to the pop culture that a president represent the Indian-American community, why didn’t they push the incredibly talented Jindal, or bemoan the fact when he dropped out from lack of funding? Why didn’t they rush to the support of entrepreneurial wunderkind Ramaswamy? Why didn’t they see Nikki Haley – as both a woman and an Indian – for her own demonstrable qualifications, instead of just playing with her as a foil to weaken the Trump juggernaut?
And why is that every single time a talented minority runs for any office as a Republican – from county board to state legislator to federal office – the Left always attacks them first and foremost, because they simply don’t dare allow the Right to have a successful, impressive role model who happens to be a minority?
We can come to only one conclusion: These demographics aren’t what really matters, to them or to anyone. Not in the least.
What counts in a candidate are his or her policy positions – the issues, the ability, the patriotism of the candidate.
As voters, we should – we MUST – always support the BEST candidate, the one with the right positions, the one who’s committed to the principles of Limited Government and the Free Market. We must support the candidate who respects the Declaration of Independence and intends to follow both the letter and spirit of the Constitution – regardless of whether that candidate happens to be black or white, male or female, Hispanic or Indian, young or old.
Only the modern Democrat party would get all that so completely topsy-turvy, that they would intentionally, feverishly recommend the very worst candidate – the least intelligent, the least patriotic, the most Marxist, the most degenerate… Just because she checks off the boxes of being Indian-American, African-American, and female.
It is long past time to wipe out that ridiculous way of thinking and voting entirely.
The Left doesn’t really support Kamala Harris because she’s part Indian and part black. That’s just a gimmick. They support her because she’s radical. They support her because she’s their vehicle for the destruction of America’s wonderful, proven system of government. They support her because she opposes our Constitution. Because she opposes the Judeo-Christian tradition of Western Civilization and the libertarian views of the Scottish Enlightenment that have given us the greatest standard of living in the world. She is their weapon; they just use her color and her sex to shame people into voting against their own interest.
As voters, we have one duty: to choose the best candidate for America and the world.
It is time to reject the anti-American candidate who is just a bundle of demographic check-off boxes and has literally nothing else to recommend her.
Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), are available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
His newest nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” was just released on July 1, and is also available, in both paperback and Kindle eBook, exclusively on Amazon.
Nicely put.
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“We can come to only one conclusion: These demographics aren’t what really matters, to them or to anyone. Not in the least. What counts in a candidate are his or her policy positions – the issues, the ability, the patriotism of the candidate.”
In the case of Harris at the top of the ticket, it wasn’t even policy, never mind “demographics.”
When Biden dropped out of the race, so belatedly, there simply wasn’t any other option. How would it have looked if the Dems had spent a few weeks pondering a new candidate, organizing an antiquated sort of convention in which, instead of embracing a foregone conclusion, they had to haggle over various other candidates and arrive at consensus, some four months before an election? What of the wrath of the voters, who would not have been consulted (ie, pulling the levers), but would have had time to grow resentful of that unfamiliar and undemocratic process?
The inner circle who decided to sideline Biden, correctly evaluated the electorate — crown the likely choice, and do it fast, as if it’s inevitable, and the voters will swivel collectively, simultaneously, like a school of fish.
Harris was inevitable. Democrats would be acclaiming her no less if she had a Mayflower ancestors from all four grandparents.
I held my nose and voted for McCain only because of Sarah Palin.
Ditto. She was a great candidate and the RomneyMcCainRINO wing did her as much dirt as the left did.
I found this old thread from when Sarah was running for VP and two freepers wrote about a rally where she was the featured speaker. A lot of the pix are no longer live, but the captions are still there!
Thanks, brought back memories!
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