Election 2016

I listened to Tim Kaine speak last night and he’s surprisingly good. I think the critics who say he’s too middle of the road, to ordinary, too plain vanilla, and will bring little or nothing to Hillary’s campaign are wrong. He’s an inspired choice. His optimistic and humorous style humanizes …

Allan Chernoff of Chenoff Communications wrote an interesting article in Fortune Magazine to explain the rise of Donald Trump. The part that intrigued me the most was this paragraph: Trump’s presentation style is engaging. He draws attention not only through his outrageous remarks, but also with his assertive, energetic and …

Trumpanzees are swinging off the branches in Cleveland today. Instead of focusing on the great speech Mike Pence made yesterday and concentrating on the positives, they are positively apoplectic today discussing the speech that Ted Cruz made at the RNC that explicitly did NOT endorse Trump. One of the biggest …

Everyone who knows me also knows I am, and have been for quite some time, a “NeverTrump” guy. No two ways about it. The man turns my stomach because of his coarseness, his crudity, his shallowness (to quote Goldwater’s wife) and because of his bullying and manipulating ways. There is …

The real ideological divide today between left and right comes down to this: There are those of us who want to keep government at arms length (as much as possible in this modern information, terrorism prone age at any rate — with some clear trade-offs that spark disputes among those …

In the wake of Bill Clinton’s incredibly sloppy secret meeting (but since made very public) with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the eve of the Justice Department’s decision concerning his wife’s future vis a vis the FBI investigation into her mishandling of emails on her private server while Secretary of …

Let’s agree that “racism” refers to the belief that one individual is better than another because of his or her racial characteristics where “race” is defined as human types categorized by the possession of genetically inherited physical characteristics which members of each type have in common with other members of …

The more I think about this Trump thing, the more troubled and unsure how I’ll vote in November I become. As at least one friend and early Trump supporter I know has noted, I really, really, really don’t like this guy for president. He’s all wrong for the country. He’s …

A friend of mine on Facebook, arguing for the necessity of supporting Donald Trump in the wake of his presumptive GOP presidential nomination “win,” urged me to disregard his primary season rhetoric and just get on board. “What is it about ‘trust’ that you are looking for?” he asked me, …

This morning’s WSJ has an editorial arguing against a third party option for Republicans and other conservatives disaffected with the selection of Trump as the GOP nominee on the grounds that a Hillary presidency would be costly for conservatives but would, at least, be preferable to Trump in the White …