TEN DAYS UNTIL GOD KNOWS WHAT

By Bob Walsh

 

 

God Knows What.  That's what will happen.  I know what I WANT to happen.  I sort-of know what I sort-of THINK will happen, but as Frank Herbert so wisely noted, Hope Clouds Reason.

Conventional wisdom says there will be few, if any, minds changed at this late date.  I suspect that in this case conventional wisdom is probably correct.  The Democrat-Socialists are clearly throwing anything up against the wall to see if it will stick.  Trump is a Fascist.  Trump is a Nazi.  Trump is the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler.  It has gotten to the point it is like the little boy who cried wolf.  Even their own people don't believe it any more and the Trump supporters think that everything the Democrat-Socialists say is a lie.  Even if a legit October Surprise were to drop the Trump supporters would not turn away from him because they wouldn't believe it, or wouldn't care, or more likely both.

I truly believe that right now the Dems are running scared.  A confident person does not change horses in the middle of the stream.  They are now putting Kamala out there, sort of.  She is appearing at interviews but in reality is refusing to be interviewed.  She spouts B.S.  HOPE AND CHANGE.  TRUMP IS EVIL.  A NEW WAY FORWARD.  I WOULD CHANGE NOTHING.  TRUMP IS EVIL.  I AM NOT TRUMP.  TRUMP IS EVIL.  When she gets a question that she doesn't want to answer (or can't answer) she spouts nonsense.  She can't help herself.  SHE IS A TRULY BAD CANDIDATE.  I wonder how many of the party movers and shakers now wish they had insisted on an open convention.  Kamala is at least as radical as Bernie Sanders and maybe even more so without the charm, honesty or focus.  

The few people that actually listen when she says something cogent may very well be worried.  She does want to do some radical things.  She clearly wants to legitimize the 10-20 MILLION illegal aliens in this country and to let more and more and more in.  A LOT of people, including old-style Democrats have a huge issue with that.  She clearly wants to pack the Supreme Court and rewrite or ashcan the Second Amendment, and maybe the First Amendment as well.  She thinks she could do that legislatively, and if she could get a compliant Supreme Court she might be able to manage that.  And she wants to tax the shit out of everybody and use the money to buy votes.  As does Joe and his continual attempts to transfer student loan debt from the individual debtor to the taxpayers in general.  

Trump isn't helping himself much.  He is spending at least as much time trying to re-fight the last election as he is trying to win this one.  Dude just can't let go.  I sympathize, but really, some times you just have to suck it up and move on.

Will all the anti-Trump forces along with the ten or twelve honest-to-god pro-Kamala people out there be enough to carry the day.  I hope not.  And now I can say I think not.  Trump outperformed his polls in both 2016 and 2020.  Right now he is polling consistently just a tad ahead of Kamala in all seven battleground states, and in some instances more than a tad ahead.  

I have moved from being hopeful to honestly being a little bit expectant.  I not only want Trump to win I expect him to.  I am not going to be crushed if he doesn't.  I am not going to scream YOU CHEATED unless there is some actual evidence of it.  I will be irritated and truly worried if Kamala wins, but I won't be clinically depressed. 

I now think the "closet Trump" vote, the open and full throated pro-Trump vote and the "my god Kamala is truly an idiot" vote will be enough to carry the day.  I know if Trump would focus on two or three or four solid items and keep hammering them and let everything else fall away I would feel a lot happier about it.  In many ways he is his own worst enemy.  

One thing for sure I will be watching election night.  No Gilligan's Island reruns that night for me.  It would be nice if by midnight East Coast Time the forces of truth and justice had it in the bag.  I am not betting on that.  I would sure like to NOT see another Bush v. Gore 2000, but right now I would take the win any way I can get it.