For the most part minus the Donald Trump videos of him professing his love for Tom Brady and his disdain for loser Bill BilliCOCK…I’ve genuinely turned it way down on my blog voicing my thoughts on our 45th POTUS.
Here’s the thing…I’m not an ideologue of any sort. I pretty much believe that if you treat people the right way that’s what comes back to you in the end. Kindness and respect begats kindness and respect. There are times you have to a draw line with certain people. You can’t be blindly naive. But for the most part you should try to be kind like John Madden, Vince Lombardi, and Roberto Clemente.
Kindness shouldn’t have to be by government mandate…it should be engrained in us as humans.
I’ve never been a member of the Democratic Party because they have too many tents under one party. I’m not that complex. Yet, after being what I would describe as a socially liberal Republican from 1976-2000…I changed to being an Independent and voted for Barack Obama twice even though I disgree with him on several things.
Why would a self-employed fiscal conservative do that?
Because I respect and admire him as a human and had the naive notion that he could have possibly united our country.
That’s on me and I fully admit I was naive for ever thinking a member of the Republican Party could ever view things in that manner. Here’s what else… I learned the GOP is in essence a one issue party. That issue is in essence reducing or eliminating every possible level of effective marginal tax rates at both the individual and corporate levels.
Every other social issue is nothing beyond a smoke-screen ruse to tittilate the lower half white Nixon Silent Majority into voting against their own economic well being.
That’s it in a nutshell.
But you know what I thought was cool…our then ultra conservative senator Tom Coburn became good friends with Barack Obama and even though they didn’t agree on political things…they became friends.
GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner and Obama ultimately became friends. John McCain’s family had Barack Obama do the eulogy at John McCain’s funeral. Where did the rest of the Republican Party go?
Where did the party of family Christian values and the sanctity of life go?
What happened to those people? Were they so swept up in hanging Mike Pence they went poof?
So as I look at things around me now in semi batfuck crazy Oklahoma…I pretty much for the most part am keeping most of my thoughts of Donald Trump to myself.
I would guestimate outside of Oklahoma County, Cleveland County, and Tulsa County that Donald Trump would carry the state by an 80% plurality if the election were held today.
And keep in mind in the recent presidential election the states which went blue contribute approximately 66% of GDP and tax revenue to run the country. The same country which Donald Trump wanted to overthrow on January 6th, 2020.
Vexing…for certain. Because some of that 66% of revenue ends up in Oklahoma and other red states who need that revenue. If that isn’t the sweetest OPM (Other People’s Money) deal around, then I don’t know what is. If you’re too stupid to take the money and make your own communities better then I don’t know what to say. I mean, for God’s sake I put a video up of OKC’s mayor David Holt, a Republican, pretty much saying what I just wrote.
The truth of the matter is one year after the almost overthrow of the American government…I can only cite one Republican in the entire country who has steadfastly stated that what Donoald Trump did was wrong.
And that person would be Liz Cheney from uber red Wyoming. Liz Cheney is the lone Republican who owns a set of balls big enough to stand up to Donald Trump.
So there is one Republican left in the country who to this day still believes in our democracy, our constitution, and our separation of the three branches of the government…and that person is Liz Cheney.
And for that reason…I’m going to honor Liz Cheney as the 2020 Republican of the Year on my blog one week away from the anniversary of the darkest day in American history….so far.
I wish this could be the Michael Smerconish Question of the Week on his show’s Saturday poll question… ‘If Ronald Reagan were running for a U.S. Senate seat in a southern Republican state could he get past a GOP primary and be the party’s nominee?’
I would love to see how the nation would poll on that question on Michael’s show because he gets a cross-range of objective people like me.
I would vote no. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have a chance of being the GOP nominee in a state like Oklahoma. In the states like Oklahoma… Republicans who won’t pledge their fealty to Trump would not advance to the general election.
Keep in mind in the most recent national poll…the only politician rating lower than Joe Biden was Mitch McConnell with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rated the highest with an approval rating of 64%….then Fed Chief Jerome Powell with an apporval rating in the mid 50% range.