Send in the Clowns

This was a song by Judy Collins and maybe some others.  I saw it somewhere in the last week describing the Republican Convention.  I think it applies to more than that, the Republican Convention, the Democratic Convention, the whole sickening campaign.  "The clowns......"  So very fitting.

I saw in the newspaper this AM that former Michigan gov Jennifer Granholm "gets goosebumps" thinking about Hillary Clinton's nomination.  Pathetic, yet not at all surprising.  Granholm was a lousy governor.  As one of her own Democrat colleagues, anonymously, said, Granholm "likes to play Governor.  She doesn't want to be Governor."  Don't forget, "Cool Cities!" and "Everybody Goes to College," as if those were going to fix everything.  Democrats, Granholm and the others, have shown their true colors the past 20+ years, blatantly.  There are no principles other than getting elected, having power, etc.  They've sold out their constituencies, from blacks to you-name-it.  Oh, they still sing the same lies, but the picture is clear.  How, for instance, can women still support the Clintons, the womanizing/abusive Bill, or the enabling/vindictive Hillary?  How can black voters continue to cast ballots for the likes of Obama?  Their plight has not at all improved, but has declined under Obama's divisive 8 years.  But, two things.  It's the Democrats' meme (There, I have finally used that word, although I'm not sure what it means.)  And it's Bush's fault.

Where is, as I've noted several times, the Democrats' equivalent of Never Trump?  Why is there, with all of the evidence supporting one, a Never Clinton movement?  Great Americans of the past, such as John Adams and Abraham Lincoln, have insisted on taking the high moral ground, regardless of how unpopular that might be.  I guess that tells us all we need to know about Democrats and morality.

And Republicans still don't get it, at least the Establishment still doesn't.  Their constant lying to voters, that is, the voters' frustration and anger at the  Establishment, seems to have escaped them.  Their lack of vision and conservative values (or, like Democrats, any values other than getting elected and having political power) have made them a shadow, at best, of the party of Lincoln--if it had not already abandoned what had once made the party great.

A Trumpster had an op-ed in the newspaper trying to explain why Trump "resonates with voters."  I still don't think he does, not Trump.  It's not about Trump.  Oh, no doubt there are some who like Trump for "You're Fired!"  That's the kind of unfeeling, uncaring generation that we've created.  It's "in your face" and the like that attracts many people.  (That's too bad.)  But on the whole it's not about Trump, but voters who are dissatisfied with the Establishment, Republican and Democrat.  (I could also add Bernie Sanders here, but......  C'mon, Bernie Sanders?)  And neither party seems to comprehend.  Well, the Dems might, but they think they have bought the election(s) by having the LameSteam media in their pockets.

Out to pitch BP, in 95 degree heat, with high humididity.