Posted on 08/11/2020 8:18:35 AM PDT by billorites
As regular readers of my column know, I’m no fan of Donald Trump. And that’s putting it mildly.
I don’t like his chronic dishonesty. I don’t like narcissism. I don’t like his nastiness and his silly name-calling. I detest his need to constantly cause chaos, as he did with a recent tweet suggesting we should postpone the 2020 presidential election. There’s nothing about this man’s character that I like.
And I hope he wins re-election in a landslide.
Actually what I mean is that I hope the Republican candidate beats the Democratic candidate. And I wish the Republican candidate were almost anybody else. But since “almost anybody else” isn’t running, I hope Joe Biden loses more than I’m actively rooting for Donald Trump to win. If that’s akin to a distinction without a difference … so be it.
It amazes me that in a country of more than 300 million people Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the best we can come up with. If we picked two candidates out of the crowd at a Star Wars convention we wouldn’t be worse off.
It’s not exactly a bulletin that Joe Biden is a puppet candidate. I don’t think he has a clue as to what he stands for. His political team puts words in his mouth and on a good day he repeats them without forgetting what he’s talking about. Be assured that if Biden wins, Bernie Sanders and AOC will be running the show.
Biden says that if he wins he’ll be one of the most progressive presidents in U.S. history. And Bernie Sanders says Biden would be the most progressive president since FDR.
So let’s take a look at what that progressive future might mean.
For two months we’ve been witnessing chaos and destruction in Portland and other cities run by progressive Democrats, yet no one in the Democratic Party will stand up and condemn the violence as if they really mean it. They’re cowards who fear a backlash from the hard left wing of the party. Stand up against rioters and the progressives will find a primary opponent to run against you.
This is a party my father, a lifelong Democrat, wouldn’t recognize. He was a blue- collar worker who could never support today’s Democrats. They bear no resemblance to John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey or Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or even Barack Obama, who was a mere liberal when he was president but now — if his partisan remarks at the funeral of John Lewis is any indication — has become a passionate progressive apparently believing that passionate progressive polices are what his party needs to win in November.
Today’s Democrats think the police are the enemy, not the rioters, who they like to call “mostly peaceful protestors.” Some Democrats have called law enforcement officers “storm troopers” and “secret agents.” When Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland to stop the rioters from burning down the federal courthouse, the mayor of the city and the governor of Oregon were angry with the president – not the anarchists!
This is a party that invited Attorney General William Barr to a congressional hearing but wouldn’t let him respond to their non-stop onslaught of attacks. They accused him of corruption, of perjury of violating his oath and of betraying the Constitution. And when he tried to respond, they constantly interrupted to say, “I reclaim my time.”
In plain English that means we get to talk and call you names and you’re expected to shut up and take it. If that happened on the street, someone would wind up with a bloody nose.
As Andrew McCarthy put it in an essay in National Review Online: “What happened on Capitol Hill was a debacle to despair over because Democrats do not act this way because they are preternaturally rude. They act this way because their voters expect and demand that they act this way.
“It is not hard to understand, even if it is hard to accept. Democrats do not merely disagree with Donald Trump. They abhor him. Their supporters and media friends so loathe him that each ‘hearing,’ each issue, becomes a contest of who can be the most indecorous and contemptuous. Who among us can spew the most bile?”
He’s right. It’s not only Democrats in Congress who give their party a bad name. It’s also the Democrats who cheer for their “I reclaim my time” tactics. If Hillary Clinton were a Republican (or simply even-handed) she might call them “deplorable.” And she might be right.
Pollsters often ask questions to find out if voters think the candidate cares about people like them, if the candidate shares their values.
Democrats don’t share my values and they sure don’t care about people like me. People like me don’t want our tax dollars to pay for free comprehensive healthcare for immigrants who snuck into the country and are living here illegally.
Bernie Sanders wants to give convicted felons who are still locked up in prison the right to vote. If Bernie wants it, Joe will want it too. The puppeteer calls the shots, not the puppet.
As for free speech, it will be in serious jeopardy if Democrats win in November, especially if they make a clean sweep and take the Senate and keep control of the House. So-called hate speech could become a crime. And they’ll decide what’s hateful and what isn’t.
If Biden and his progressive puppet masters take over, the cancel culture will be in full bloom. You think it’s bad now? Just wait!
And if Biden wins and Democrats take over the Senate, there’s at least a 50-50 chance they’ll blow up the filibuster, which means all they’ll need is a simple majority to pass whatever they want. And that’ll include making Puerto Rico a state, packing the Supreme Court with liberal Justices, passing some version of a budget busting Green New Deal and who knows what else that’s on the progressive wish list.
Republicans have their faults too, that’s for sure – but, all things considered, they’re not as bad as what the Democratic Party has become.
But if Donald Trump is going to win – and that looks like a long shot – he’ll have to do it without me. I can’t bring myself to vote for such a defective human being.
I know the argument, which I’ve heard a million times: If I don’t vote for Trump it’s the same as voting for Biden. That may be true, but that’s Donald Trump’s doing, not mine.
And if Joe Biden wins it won’t be because of me or a few million people like me. It will be because of Donald Trump.
He is a detestable man. And I hope he wins.
Bernie is your classic “liberal” so I can see why he might not support the president. But his work exposing mainstream media bias has been important.
Bernie was never a conservative. He just made money selling his books, where he whined that his former colleagues in the liberal media weren’t his friends anymore. It took him until he was close to 50 to realize that liberalism was bad? He also voted against President Reagan twice. So he only liked the Republicans from the late 1990s until 2008?
“But if Donald Trump is going to win – and that looks like a long shot – he’ll have to do it without me. I can’t bring myself to vote for such a defective human being.”
I’m Bernie Goldberg, and I’m a petulant child.
Ironic that Bernie adopts one of the traits often attributed to the defective human he won’t vote for. FU Bernie.
Democrat amnesty these days means expunging the criminal arrest record of looters and arsonists engaged in “mostly peaceful protest” so their prospective employers never find out.
Democrat amnesty these days means turning out multiple homicide felons on the street with a personal reconnaissance bond so they can continue to rape rob and kill while awaiting their trials.
Democrat amnesty these days means giving convicted felons in prison for rape, murder, terrorism and other heinous crimes "the right to vote".
We say this every year. Our Pols suck.
It's because of the media. Most people (99%+) do NOT want to go through the crapstorm of a rectal probing nor do they wish to inflict that on their family and friends.
As a result, the best people stay quietly under the radar and away from politics.
Exactly.
It amazes me that in a country of more than 300 million people that someone can write such gibberish and actually get paid for it.....
Bernie is fighting real hard to find a way back into the spotlight, that seems to have left him more than 5 years ago. Previously his whole schtick was “media bias” toward the Left. I think we’ve already learned that lesson, and then some. We’re moving on. But thanks for treating us to the obligatory irrelevancies of why you don’t like Trump—
Bernie Is a New York Democrat. What the heck does he know?
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Stay the hell out of Florida, Bernie!
Well at least he is not going to vote for Biden...Like other never Trumpers
“...the enemy of my enemy is my friend...” whether one likes it or not....LOL
The difference between Goldberg and the Romneys is that Bernard Goldberg DOES still want Donald Trump to win.
Mitt Romney and John McCain and other Never Trumps work to actively undermine his administration.
So Bernie is virtue signaling but by his encouraging others to take a stand as he is doing, he’s encouraging a lack of support on election day. Elections will always be determined by how many people go to the polls and cast a vote.
My city still has hundreds of thousands of Republicans who will listen to talk radio but never go vote.
I don't see any elected Republicans with the combination of backbone and charisma that Trump has. And we are short on conservative billionaires who can take on the entire Establishment and win.
Demoncrats love candidates with style. Candidates that sound good, Presidential, even god-like (Obama). I judge a candidate by actions. That’s why I like Trump. Does what he says he’s going to do. The art of the deal is not about getting along, bowing to every dictator with respect. We’re beyond that, we need action from someone who knows we’re getting screwed by China and willing to get his hands dirty changing the status quo.
If a few million like Bernard don’t vote or go third party, that could help.
He refers to Kennedy, Carter et al. as if they were giants of old.
I wasn’t there, but I’d bet in their time, people often lamented, “Is this the best we can do?”
>>Bernie is your classic “liberal” so I can see why he might not support the president. But his work exposing mainstream media bias has been important.
Donald Trump has done a lot to expose “mainstream” media bias as well.
Oh the irony dropping from this hateful scourge because Trump is supposedly hateful.
The Left has become one super mass collective of hate, destruction. lawlessness, insurrection, and murder, but by golly to these mindless troll usurpers Trump is the evil one.
Four years of non-stop character assassination and lies about him, have convinced them he is the problem, and of course not them.
Wrong...
I meant “media bias” in FAVOR of the Left, not toward the left.
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