Post by homeschooldad on Mar 8, 2024 15:45:44 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=al7ont2noYA&ab_channel=NBCNews
Some thoughts:
I'd like to see what James Carville has to say about last night's SOTU. Agree or disagree with him about this point or that, the man understands politics possibly better than anyone else, and he can make a dog laugh. I find myself snickering at his comments sometimes even when I thoroughly disagree with him. Real piece of work, but does he ever know his politics. (And us loud-mouthed, bald-headed Southern Catholic boys have to stick together.)
Some thoughts:
- It all sounded kind of turgid and desperate. Sometimes I felt as though I were watching some kind of Latin American dictator.
- Utterly tone-deaf as to the concerns of the right to life movement. One reason I wanted to see RFK Jr run in the Democratic primary, while he is pro-choice, he acknowledges that abortion is a tragedy and that many Americans have another point of view that cannot be ignored. If I were to come to the point between now and November, that I simply cannot vote for Trump (a place I have not gone yet), if RFK Jr were the Libertarian candidate (as he may well end up being, there's talk), and if I could be convinced that he would nominate Supreme Court Justices solely on their ability to interpret the Constitution objectively and without being beholden to any one ideology, I could potentially vote for him. There are far worse candidates.
- His robust defense of IVF places him firmly outside the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Senator Katie Britt's Republican rebuttal was almost unwatchable. She came across as strident and totally lacking in gravitas and statespersonship. From a man's perspective, she's easy on the eyes, no question about that, but her delivery was one step up from that horrible, horrible, histrionic, arm-waving rant that Kimberly Guilfoyle went on in her "virtual convention" speech of 2020. Britt's defense of IVF was appalling (yet, outside of Catholicism and whatever other religionists see the newly-fertilized embryo as a human life worthy of protection, and/or see unnatural conception as intrinsically evil, she was entirely in line with the popular mind).
- If Trump has the sense that God gave a goose (brings to mind the crude old saw about "if a dog had a square...", you get the idea), he will find some way to mollify Nikki Haley, she will find some way to take back everything she said (minus perhaps the concerns about Trump being too old, they could actually work that as a yin-yang thing about concern versus non-concern about an elderly candidate, "good cop, bad cop"), and Trump will ask, possibly even beg, her to be his VP running mate. People like Haley who did not like Trump, and could rest easy if Trump were ever removed from office in whatever fashion. The 25th Amendment could be her friend.
I'd like to see what James Carville has to say about last night's SOTU. Agree or disagree with him about this point or that, the man understands politics possibly better than anyone else, and he can make a dog laugh. I find myself snickering at his comments sometimes even when I thoroughly disagree with him. Real piece of work, but does he ever know his politics. (And us loud-mouthed, bald-headed Southern Catholic boys have to stick together.)