I’d started writing a long thing on my impressions of Officer Harris’s DNC performance.
I had a good headline written about Ofc. Harris’s speech, “Fears Allayed.” There was a marked departure from some of the stupid things that have been done leading up to her aborted candidacy in 2020, and things done by the Biden Administration.
Does that mean I’d ever vote for her? Hell to the NO.
She is, and will always be, a Cop Who Wants To Be President. That she backed down from some of the authoritarian impulses seen during the first two years of the Biden Administration don’t change what she and many members of her party did.
I understand that I’m supposed to be feeling JOY, but I don’t.
Even more so when I think about her choice of a running mate.
Some call it Authoritarianism, in Minnesota, they call it disease control.
The stuff with his National Guard service is also concerning. Do I think it’s really “stolen valor” that he portrayed himself as a CSM when he never finished the course, and retired as an MSG? No.
The 1995 DUI/DWI arrest really, really, really bothers me.
If he’d been on active duty, he would have faced very harsh penalties under the UCMJ. That he skated as a Guardsman is incredible.
So, too, is his continue employment with a school district.
I can remember my mother working for Fairfax County Public Schools and being nervous about having a glass of wine with dinner because of their policies regarding staff consumption. That would have been in about 1990?
Microsoft’s inline punctuation check is annoying.
Scads of speeches laying out standard Democrat talking points, but, largely her speech was made to erase the memory of what she, and her party, did since Obama left.
The things I’d wanted to write about also got derailed by some of the stuff from the Libertarians, and the RFK Jr. “drop-out.”
I listened to the SoHo Forum debate with Art Laffer and Chase Oliver. I could pick out a few things from each where I disagree, but the chances of me voting for Trump are about as close to zero as they’ve ever been, and Oliver probably won’t be on the ballot.
Even if he was there, I’d have trouble filling in the circle next to his name.
So march it on. I’m ready for the fall.