Don't take this personally, but I can't figure out how anyone could cast a vote for a Democrat this year.
Beats the ding-dong heck out of me.
And I can't figure out how anyone could vote for these Republican Lite, Rockefeller Republican, milquetoast, go-along-to get-along Republicans. These it-can't-happen-here, ersatz Republicans who vote with Democrats, and some even used to BE Democrats.
Who call themselves Republicans.
But aren't.
Here's an idea – vote for Republicans who vote with the conservatives, not with the liberals. Simple enough?
In Wisconsin, where dairy is huge, for years they wouldn't let producers of margarine dye their product yellow to look like butter. It made sense. No confusing the imitation with the real thing.
Here in the state that voted just shy of 70 percent for Donald Trump in 2020, highest in the nation, there ought to be a similar way to identify Republican candidates who aren't nearly as conservative as the vast majority of voters. We ought to be able to tell the Margarine Republicans from the Real Butter Republicans.
(Here's a hint. The Freedom Caucus folks are Real Butter Republicans.)
You have to wonder when this Republican Lite crowd catches up with the Wyoming voters who knew right away they didn't want Bob playing high school basketball against Mary. Or wrestling Mary. Who knew right away that if Bob wanted a doctor to change his sex to match that of Mary, he had to wait until he was old enough to drive a car, to buy a beer, and to vote to make such a life-altering, often irreversible decision.
Voters here knew right away that keeping law-abiding people from bearing guns in gun-free zones just make us more vulnerable to murderers, who almost never obey signs. (You could look it up.)
Voters here knew right away that they wanted the best professors at the University of Wyoming, without jumping through a bunch of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hoops. (I say there's no Equity in this country until my house is as big and palatial as Bill Gates' lavish compound. Until then, I ask you, where's the Equity?)
How could anyone who has seen what's going on in our nation's largest cities possibly vote for a Democrat, the party that presides in almost every large American city? Carjackings, mobs of thugs looting stores in previously safe neighborhoods, people being terrorized on public transportation by miscreants who will be back on the street in hours, murders and rapes by illegal immigrants, and companies like Target, Nordstrom, Taco Bell, Whole Foods, and even Walmart closing big city locations because they're just too dangerous – you want more of this kind of leadership for our entire country?
If they can't run cities, what makes you think they can run a country?
You want the party that gives us big-city prosecutors who refuse to prosecute (unless the suspect's name is Trump) picking our nation's attorney general, and nominating members of the Supreme Court?
You want that?
You want four more years of undocumented people streaming across our borders, some of whom are bent on our destruction? You want more from the party that rescinded so many of Donald Trump's border control measures that vastly incompetent Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas proudly says he can't even remember how many?
The FBI director says the situation is so dangerous that red lights are flashing everywhere. But you want four more years of this?
You want Democrats picking Secret Service directors? You want a Secret Service agent who walked off the job to breast feed, as happened last week?
You want another president who thinks inflation was at 9 percent when he took office in 2021? Anyone with a computer can see that inflation was 1.4 percent when President Oblivious was sworn in. (Bear in mind that his giggling potential replacement says there's “no daylight” between them on the issues.)
People, people, people.
I know vast numbers of you (even our former Representative) suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. But does your hatred for Trump blind you to the obvious incompetence of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
We can't have four more years of this. Let's stop the bleeding.
For the love of Pete (not sure who Pete is), don't vote for Democrats.
They've made a big enough mess already.
Dave Simpson can be reached at: DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
