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.”
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