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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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I proudly voted for Ronald Reagan twice. I voted for H.W. in 1988, but I voted Libertarian in 1992 because H.W. had betrayed the Reagan Revolution.
Your memory is doing great.
I think that you have forgotten that I promoted “The Splendid and the Vile” as the best book of the year.
It doesn’t matter, Gary. Character matters, and FDR and Churchill didn’t have it, while Hitler did.
So, to boil down what you said:
Got it.
If I had been in the first debate, I would have raised my hand and said “I am unwilling to commit to vote for a Birther, or someone who has not released his or her taxes.”
That is the first true statement I’ve heard from you in a long time. BTW, I voted for Perot even though I knew his tray table was not in the fully upright and locked position just to get rid of Bush.
And leave the rubble to all of us who will still plan on being here for a few more decades.
But you weren’t, and the people who were didn’t do that, did they? Instead, they went back on the promise they made. Shows a lack of character, and we know how you feel about character. I hope you never even consider voting for any of them again.
Trump refused to make the pledge also. A good display of character that was, to refuse to make a promise you know you won’t keep. Unlike those traditional repubs you seem to admire so much. You know, liars such as Jeb! and Kasich.
True.
No. Trump has completely blown the COVID-19 pandemic.
No.
Biden is certainly to the left of me but to equate him to Marxists violates the corollary to Godwin’s Law.
No, you haven’t got it at all.
You know, Gary, I think the obvious solution is that you need to run for President.
If memory serves Rubio and Cruz endorsed Trump in 2016. Other than Kasich, who didn’t endorse anyone, I don’t recall any of the other 16 to fail to endorse Trump in 2016.
Will you be my campaign manager?
Oh I have it. You? Not so much. Your vote, if successful would condemn millions to poverty and misery. You are either good with that or monumentally blind. Which is it?
Hillary couldn’t do that because she and Trump both knew the Birther movement originated from her campaign.
Neither. Short term pain, long term gain. (I type this while being on my hated stationary bike!)
No experience, but I think Steve Schmidt may be available.
Which ultimately came from Obama’s own literary biography, that he or his agent wrote.
My memory tells me Jeb! didn’t. BTW, Jeb! has said he won’t vote for Trump, but his son George P. Bush will. At least one Bush has a functioning brain.
I don’t think that I can afford him. On the other hand, Steve Schmidt speaks in complete paragraphs, a difficult skill to master.
And Trump repeated it over and over again, even after Obama produced his birth certificate.
FTFY
Actually, the full list of his creditors is now available due to the leak of Trump’s tax returns and they are all well known and legit entities. Interesting how some people fall over and over and over again for Fake News yet it never causes them to question their priors and continue to rely on the same news sources that have played them for fools repeatedly.
Bah. You will suffer no pain. You have yours. Yet your decision will knock millions off the lowest rungs of the ladder of economic growth. I guess their pain does not bother you. After all, you won’t be affected by it. At least not negatively.
I lost interest when it became clear that nothing would be done in any case, but the local announcer/reporter said that what was produced was “a certificate of live birth which is not a birth certificate.”
Rumor Control says that Slow Joe has requested breaks every 30 minutes during the debates. But go ahead and vote for him, Gary. He’ll probably request 4-hour workdays as Prez and weekends off, so the damage he’ll do will be minimal. Until Headboard Harris takes over.
Reagan proved that a President doesn’t have to be a grind, and Jimmy Carter shows the opposite.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt. (attributed to Mark Twain)
We may differ on that opinion, as I was saying what Biden thinks of himself, not what he actually is.