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Tom Ridge Sniffs Joe Biden’s Hair
Former (Republican) Pennsylvania Governor and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has endorsed Joe Biden. Ridge has apparently never been enthralled by — first candidate and then President Trump — because “civility and respect, not … childish name-calling and [T]witter tirades.”
Yes, Biden is truly civil and respectful. Just ask Justice Clarence Thomas. If you want to be disgusted by the electronic lynching conducted by a “civil and respectful” man read through Ann Althouse’s post this morning.
Of course, Ridge assures us that “Vice President Biden and I both know that supporting his candidacy now certainly won’t dissuade me from speaking out later when I disagree with him.” Wow, that will be comforting under a Harris-AOC Administration.
Former Governor Ridge urges us to “put country over party.” Is that what Joe Biden is doing?
I am completely fed up with NT “Republicans” signing up for the Progressive agenda because of President Trump’s personal style. Tell us which policies that Trump has implemented that they would prefer the Democrat agenda instead.
The only ones I can think of are war over peace and uni-party decorum based on decades-long accommodations of personal trough gorging. I recall a statement made by a government executive upon the retirement of a government worker going to work for a federal contractor: “He will be continuing to eat from the same trough, but he is going to the end where the swill is richer.”
Tom Ridge is and has been in the same trough with Joe Biden for decades. Nothing must be permitted to endanger the trough.
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Yes, and that was fully debunked.
Like Charlottesville was debunked?
Thank you for making my point. If Trump is defeated, then his political brand dies. Trump’s malfeasance with COVID-19, and the knowledge that he must repay $300 million in debts in the next three years to unknown people who would leave him open to blackmail or influence will defeat Trump, along with the litany of Birtherism, lack of respect for McCain and veterans, insensitivity in Charlottesville, Obstruction of Justice, and Bribery of Ukraine.
I will disagree with most Biden policies. This will be the first time that I will have voted for a Democrat since 1972. But look at it this way. With the appointment of ACB for RBG, Trump has done all the good that he can do with the Supreme Court. Breyer is the next oldest Justice and he is a spry 82 year old.
Yes, I am voting for Biden, and not Bill Clinton or Bernie Sanders. And I am handing out t-shirts of “Republicans for Biden” and “ Republican Voters Against Trump.”
Someone’s got you beat in their Biden admiration, though…..
Just about anyone can nominate someone else for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump Jhansi three worthless nominations, now Biden has one. That and $1.00 will buy you a Senior Cup of Coffee at McDonald’s.
Do you think Biden’s nomination here was as justified as Trump’s recent trio of nominations?
I have heard no one comment on the $300+ million in debts that Trump owes over the next 3 years. Who does he owe it to? It is foreign or domestic? Is it owed to a bank or a person? What influence does that give them over Trump?
I believe that they were made by people who are hoping to promote themselves. There are currently over 200 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
So now that the Supreme Court is solidly conservative, your needs are satisfied and you are content to condemn millions of poor whites, blacks, and Hispanics to the misery the Biden agenda would entail and are willing to see millions of others on the lower rungs of the economic ladder pushed into poverty. Really classy, Gary. Way to go.
But what were they nominated for? We know via the statements of the people doing the nominating that Trump was tabbed for the latest round of Middle East peace deals between Israel and the Gulf states, and for the new Balkans agreement. Do you think Biden’s nomination justification carries equal weight, or do you think like Nancy Pelosi that the agreements Trump & Company were involved with were no big deal?
Short term pain is the election of Biden. Driving a wooden stake into Trump and Trumpism is the long term gain.
Keep telling yourself that, but you have the wrong man out.
I think that virtually every President has had a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Owing $300 million in debts in three years and throwing away two fortunes of $400 million takes a special talent.
Well Trump hasn’t bombed another Prize recipient as Obama did so I can see why you’d be skeptical of Trump’s nominations.
Please clarify.
For you maybe, but where do you get off dismissing the pain of those pushed back into poverty by the Biden administration’s Marxist policies? The pain for them will be long term. You do know that is what the Soviet Nomenklatura kept telling themselves about Communist policies throughout the existence of the Soviet Union: that the short pain inflicted by Marxism was necessary for the long term gain of achieving the Proletariat Paradise. If your behavior is indistinguishable from them what does that say about you?
That begs the question I was asking, though — Do you think Biden’s justification for his Nobel nomination carries equal weight, or do you think like Nancy Pelosi that the agreements Trump & Company were involved with were no big deal?
Anyone can also nominate themselves or anyone else for the Pulitzer, but as with the Nobel, just because that’s an option doesn’t mean all nominations carry equal weight. Do you think the claims for Biden’s nomination carries equal weight to the claims made by the people who nominated Trump for his prize?
If we can bring back Reaganism, the rising tide will lift all boats.
There is no way around it. Having to vote for Biden is a negative. But if it drives a wooden stake through Trump and Trumpism, in my judgment, voting for Biden is the clear lesser of two evils.
I think that neither Trump nor Biden deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dude. That was already happening until the ‘rona hit, and even then it might not be as bad as originally predicted.
Also I repeat my question on how to bring back Reaganism other than saying Reagan a hundred times a day.
The rising tide was lifting all boats until CoViD and the shutdown. It’s starting to rise again. Why? Because Trump has done like Reagan. He has eliminated regulations and other burthens on the American people.
Then keep Trump at the helm. He was doing that before Xi’s Lung AIDS hit and Democrat governors decided to kill their states’ economies in a bid to get Biden elected.
Trump has brought back Reganism, something you could see if you were not blinded by hatred for Trump. He has reduced regulation, put conservatives on the court, and brought back the US economy. He is also divesting power from DC, something Reagan advocated.
Biden will bring back regulation, He will fill the courts with liberal judges, He will end the US economic miracle. He will sell us to the Chinese Communist government, because they already own him. (In fact, the only way the Chinese Communists will survive the next four years is if Biden is President, feeding them US resources. They are about to collapse because they are running out of other people’s money.) The Biden administration will censor US citizens’ words and monitor their thoughts, and they will be allowed to do so by their compliant judges. And with the aid of a sympathetic press, they will steal future elections. (As the saying goes, you can vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
What do you risk? Nothing. What short term pain will you suffer? Again, probably nothing. Heck, your business will probably improve because there are a lot more family law cases when times are bad.
If in your judgement voting for Biden is the clear lesser of two evils, then your judgement is extraordinarily bad. I hope that is the case, because the alternative is that you realize what your vote will do, and plan to do it anyway.
Assume a political world where Trump joins Hoover, Carter and H.W. Bush as only the fourth president in over 100 years to not be re-elected, with Trump and Trumpism being completely discredited. Where will Republicans go? They will go somewhere, but with Trump and Trumpism being exposed as a toxic brand, it is highly unlikely that they will return to Trump and Trumpism. If Trump is prosecuted for tax fraud, this only increases the stink around him. Trump is facing dozens of lawsuits that have been stayed while he was President. They will start to go to trial. Trumps chickens will have come home to roost.
Will you stay loyal to the Trump Lost Cause? If so, I predict that it will be very lonely.
Americans hate losers, and a Trump will be exposed as a Loser.
I assume that there is a place for a sunny, optimistic Republican who appeals to our better angels. It is about time, after five years of a snarling Trump.
All of which is great, along with judges. The problem is not Trump’s policies, but Trump himself.
You aren’t a Reagan Republican. You are the same inept politico that hated Reagan and elevated Bush 1. Trump has a better chance of winning reelection because his coalition is growing, not shrinking.
To take political advise from you or anyone who thinks Bush was Reagan’s third term is taking advice from fools.
My memory could be wrong, but didn’t those traditional Bush repubs swear on stage to support the eventual nominee and then refuse to support Trump? Just the way traditional repubs lied to voters all along?
Hitler was a monogamous, teetolaling, non-smoker, vegetarian (since he loved animals). Churchill was a smoker, drinker, etc. FDR was a philanderer who also drank and smoked. Character matters? Policies don’t? Okay. We know what side you’d fall on for WWII.