unifying behind Trump

I’m reading Yahoo! Headlines.  “Farrah Abrahams 8 most outrageous moments”  “Bold and Beautiful Star’s boyfriend claims her son wants him killed.”  You know my guy, Ted Cruz, had to apologize profusely because he called Trump’s voters “low information”.  I actually think Ted was spot on with Trump’s never-before-voted crowd. “Roman Reigns returns to WWE Raw, attacks Triple H.”  “Planet of the Titans: Star Trek movie that never ran.” Cerebral stuff, these Yahoos read.

“Primary day: Another big Tuesday.”  Well finally a headline somewhat important.  But here’s the thing.  When you ask people who their state Rep or state Senator is, only 2 or 3 in 100 can tell you either name.  Those who can tell you both are less than a percent.  So when they get in the voting booth and see two names they don’t know, one with an R, the other with a D, who do they vote for?  They often know the politics of the President or Governor who heads the ticket and reason from there.  If the R’s have to support Trump with his ideas all over the map, do you know how hard it is going to be for down-the-ballot candidates?  Win or lose, Trump is a disaster for other Republicans—unless they can out cuss, out lip, out schlong him and draw attention for themselves. 

The problem for a State Senator or a small-town mayor is they can’t afford vast television time and radio interviews. They interview at Kiwanis and Rotary.  Low information voters don’t know them.  Ask people you know what important bill(s) your state Senator passed.  I’d guess well less than 1% can answer that.  But dumb Dems can vote for free stuff and dumb elephants vote limited government.  The headliner of the party needs to represent something significant. 

The TV and radio personalities are 24/7 Trump and Hillary.  Everybody gets excited over the Prez nominees. The women on the View are going to go to Canada if it’s Trump.  The R’s are seeing psychiatrists to get Prozac and worried about Hillary.  Buffett and I just want to invest in the company that makes Prozac.  Look, the only reason for a political party is for like-minded people to team together to elect someone with a like mind.  If politics comes down to Trump, he doesn’t need a team.  (Like that story that a Trump advisor roughed up a reporter. What! Trump has an advisor?) But everybody else does need a team.  If we who are activists are turned out to pasture, who’s going to walk houses and call on phones?  Who’s going to suggest bill ideas to our state Rep and notify our county commissioner of a bad bridge?  Is that low information dude, who only watches TV, going to do it?  Thus it is that a stern order from Trump that we “unify” will not inspire volunteer work.  He has to provide substantive issues that like-minded workers can get behind.  The trouble is, he doesn’t even bother with explanations.  Someone said Cruz asked Trump why he wrote 4 checks to Hillary recently.  And Trump just scowled, probably thinking, ‘with all  the women I write checks to, it’s easy to get carried away.’ 

Hillary is the perfect opponent.  Listen to this quote as she explained Obamacare, “No, we just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…Government has to make those types of choices for people.”  Really!  Some comedian said, “It’s like that awkward moment when you realize that terrorists used better security than the Secretary of State.”  So we’ve got the set-up.  We have the frustration in folks who hate Obama.  We just need a substantive guy to head our ticket.  Otherwise the low info yahoos go back to, “Macaulay Culkin is barely recognizable today.” Peter Buck discusses R.E.M.s breakup.” “Cindy Crawford and daughter, Kaia, are simply stunning in ‘Vogue Paris’.  “How to be a sex toy entrepreneur.”