Why do some fringe brands of Conservative have a death
wish? I mean that in a figurative sense
of course, since this death wish manifests itself only during an election. But Bud here is a great example. When I began reading him I found a
conventional Republican with a talent for droll humor. But as the election cycle heated up the inner
maniac showed up. We’re now past he
point where Bud’s Hail May passes miss the receiver and he realizes that third
party candidates are not going to be the next President. But we still hear the lonely laments that the
Republican does not act like the standard issue M1A1 Republican loser.
Here’s an outstanding example of the #NeverTrump mindset as
it demands that the Republican nominee cut his throat in the town square at
high noon.
“Neither candidate seems at all concerned about the nation’s
unaffordable debt, much less expressed a willingness to address the entitlement
programs that is driving it…”
Of course that sentence is nonsense on two levels. No one this side of an insane asylum expects
the Democrat to do anything but ignore the national debt – or blame it on Bush
as Obama did. And the Democrat is
guaranteed to fatten current entitlement spending and invent new entitlements. In fact, “free” college education is part of
the Democrat platform. So Bud’s not
really being honest with his readers when he talks about “neither candidate.” He’s talking about Trump.
He’s demanding that Trump run on the Scrooge platform. He’s demanding that Trump spend the campaign
telling people how if he’s elected he’s going to cut Social Security and
Medicare and take food out of the mouths of starving orphans and widows. And lest anyone accuse me of hyperbole, keep
in mind that during the 2012 elections the Republican ticket was shown throwing
a wheelchair-bound grandmother off a cliff.
There are ways of solving our deficit spending problem; ways
of making this country and its people less dependent of government and more
independent in every way. The last time
the budget was near balance was because the economy was growing fast enough
that tax receipts actually kept up with spending.
But first you have to get elected. And you do that by appealing to people’s
emotions.
Republicans have been doing that for decades by promising their
constituents fiscal frugality and loosening the bonds of government. And when they get into office they deliver
goodies to the people who bankrolled them while lying to the rubes that they didn’t
have to votes to cut spending.
Democrats have an easier path to bribing their voters and supporters:
they just tell them right out that they’re going to pass out free stuff from
the cornucopia that’s the federal treasury.
How’s this for an appeal to the
youth of the nation – and their cash strapped parents? “Wanna spend four years partying at State
College? Elect us and we’ll pay the
bill.”
So this election is not going to be about who’s Scrooge and
who’s Santa Claus. It’s a battle between
a sick, corrupt woman who’s expecting to ride into office on the coattails of
her husband, and a political novice who’s vanquished the corrupt, lying
Republican establishment with the promise of Making America Great Again.
I think the novice will win.
