“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin” – Sam Adams
I’m sitting in the Midnight Café, only half full on orders
of Governor Ned Lamont, having breakfast. The place names and personal names
throughout have been changed to protect innocent, non-politicians. The usual
waitress, Sami, of indeterminate age, sporting her usual braided ponytail,
greets me, a steady customer, and the order is quickly put on the table.
The next few booths are filled with electricians brought
into the state by Eversource to reconnect houses and businesses with mostly
repaired power lines. They are, many of them, on their way back to their home
states after a grueling stretch in Connecticut.
Sami calls out to them, “Have a safe trip back, guys,” and
they wave beefy forearms in her direction.
“Sami, look at this picture, and tell me what you think.”
The photo, top of the fold, front page, shows Senator Kamal
Harris, former Vice President Joe Biden’s handpicked Vice Presidential
candidate, standing at a podium holding
forth, while Biden, stone-faced, is seated in a chair that looks alarmingly
like a kiddy highchair, legs wide open, his arms tightly clutching his stomach,
his face masked in pretended interest.
Sami quickly assesses the photo and, never shy of sharing
her opinion, smiles wickedly.
“Wonder if he had to use a stool to mount that chair?”
“Yeah, you noticed. If he were lying on the floor, he’d be
in a fetal position.”
“Right. He’s hugging his tummy tightly.”
“Harris looks presidential though, doesn’t she?
“Very. I’m not sure that will help whatshisname,” same
animated smile.
It’s one of those pictures that are worth a thousand words.
The skinny on Biden, even among some Democrats, is that he has become a recluse – not owing to Coronavirus. His early announcement that he would choose as his Vice President a black woman has limited his range, but many Democrats feel Harris might make a tolerable president when Biden, if elected, declines to run for a second term. Biden has not been able or inclined to answer successfully barely concealed imputations that he has become an in-the-closet presidential campaigner because he fears a public, mano a mano confrontation with President Donald Trump.
It is thought by some that Biden's possible future foreign policy with respect to an aggressive and muscular China already has been compromised by Hunter Biden, his grasping son, who had been employed and monetarily rewarded by China because his Daddy was Joe Biden, the Democrat’s Great White Hope in the upcoming November 2020 elections. And there is a suspicion that Biden has problems unspooling simple English sentences, that he will not be able to carry his weight in office, that he really has forgotten more than he knows, and on and on and on. Biden is 77 years old. His best days, many agree, lie behind him.
The skinny on Trump is that he has been fatally damaged by repeated failed attempts to remove him from office, and a painfully protracted, failed attempt, lasting as long as his presidency, to find him guilty of collusion with President of
Russia Vladimir Putin. Some suppose that Trump will be easy campaign prey for a
weakened Democrat presidential contender and his more vigorous, black, female, Vice
Presidential candidate.
Under the hammer-blows of a Democrat opposition unalterably
opposed to a Trump second term victory, it has been supposed that Connecticut Republicans, as happened in 2018, will tremulously withdraw in horror from a
toxic president, thereby giving weight to Democrat charges that even a damaged
Biden-Harris administration would be preferable to four more years of a Trump
regime.
In both law and politics, silence signifies assent;
therefore, silence by Connecticut Republicans on two matters of importance to
them – the re-election of a Republican president and the recapture of the US
House of Representatives, as well as a stony silence on what is broadly called
progressive social issues – can only be interpreted by traditional state groups
allied against Republicans as a permission to continue unimpeded many progressive
programs that conservatives, libertarians, most Republicans and many
unaffiliated consider repugnant and dangerous to the social fabric of the
Republic.
In the new age now upon us, the center has not held, and The Second
Coming, born in a dry desert, is slowly slouching toward Bethlehem. The
media is now capitalizing “Black” in its reportage, as if “Black” were a race;
it’s a color. “White” is also a color, not a race. Distinctions are not made
between tolerable and even necessary mottos such as “Black Lives Matter” and political
organizations and operations. The Black Lives Matter political organization is firmly rooted in outworn
Marxist notions and its organizers are – as they
say themselves – committed communists. A George Orwell might well sweep
all the rotgut Newsspeak away, but there are no Orwells among us.
And we have assented to the anarchic rule of windy and rootless
politicians, never mindful of Ben Franklin’s answer when he was asked by a
woman on the street, once the Continental Congress had finished its business, “Sir,
what have you given us?”
“A republic, madam – IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.”
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