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The Most important Election of My Lifetime, And Yours

On the eve of the Presidential election in 2000, back then it still happened on one day, I stopped off for dinner at the McDonald’s in McLean. The old one on Elm Street, not the new one with the drive through lanes on Old Dominion drive. Even after all these years my dinner routine is still about the same. It was a Friday, and the Presidential election was on the following Tuesday. I used to run into all kinds of powerful people growing up McLean. There is truth in the maxim, “the people that run the Federal government live in McLean”, but in fairness I would add that there are some decent people who live there as well.

Well on that night in the McDonald’s I saw Republican Illinois Congressman Phil Crane. He was a great conservative, he even ran for President in 1980, battling Reagan for conservative votes. I recognized him because he spoke to my college Republican group a few years earlier. Crane, a proud Republican with deep roots in Illinois told the story that when he was a boy, he shook his grandfather’s hand, who when he was a boy shook his great grandfather’s hand, who when he was a boy shook Abraham Lincoln’s hand. As we were waiting for our food Crane looked at me and said, “This is the most important election of our lifetimes.” Sadly, Crane died in 2014, but I have never forgotten his line.

I do think that was true then, but this election easily tops that election in terms of importance. I guess it makes sense the stakes in every election seem to grow larger as the partisan divide gets wider, but the other reasons that each election gets more important is because Democrats get more radical. They no longer believe in basic American values and assumptions. I have often said that Bill Clinton of the 1990’s would be too conservative to get the Democrat nomination today. He believed in balanced budgets, work requirements for welfare, tax cuts, and was against illegal immigration. In fact, I remember at a state of the union address Bill Clinton condemning illegal immigration. Today’s Democrats in Congress would boo such a line. Barack Obama also may be too conservative for most Democrats considering that he deported a lot of illegals in his first two years in office.

When Crane and I spoke that night the Democrat ideological equivalent of Kamala Harris would probably be Rep. Barabra Lee or Rep Maxine Waters, both from California. Both of them would have been too far left for the Democrats of 2000. But the party has been taken over by the hard left. The party has moved to the left of Socialist Bernie Sanders and has embraced Harris. And Harris is as far left as Waters and Lee.

Sure, it was important to defeat Al Gore that year, and I’m glad we did. However, Gore unlike Kamala Harris, this year’s Democrat nominee was generally pro America. For example, Gore wouldn’t have supported transferring hundreds of billions of dollars to migrants. Gore wouldn’t have supported her economic ideas, such as 25k for house downpayment money doled out based on questionable criteria. Gore wouldn’t have gone along with Harris and supported using taxpayers’ money for “Gender affirming care.”

Give the odd robotic like Al Gore some credit. Ideologically he supported the work of the founding fathers, and their basic beliefs in a Republic. When he mentioned them, and he did, he did it with some pride in his voice. He didn’t think that they were racist exploiters. Gore believed in capitalism; Gore believed in American exceptionalism to some extent. Gore still believed in the American belief in merit, hard work and equality, that is equal opportunity, not the belief of Democrats today of equitable outcomes, largely driven by race and gender.

Gore didn’t believe in the racial politics of Harris, at least not in 2000. For example, unlike her he never said he’d back slavery reparations, or business loans based on race. Gore didn’t believe in open borders.

Unlike Gore today’s Democrats are radicals. They are not liberal, they are progressive. Gone is their pretense of believe in limited government, today they are open about their desire to increase government reach into every aspect of your life. It is no longer the same party so defeating them takes on more urgency. And on the other side of the ledger, Trump is far better than Governor George W. Bush. Trump has a good record of peace, prosperity and no new wars, Trump is not a neocon. And unlike Bush, Trump doesn’t aspire to be considered America’s “First Hispanic President.” I think Karl Rove whispered that idea in G.W.’s head.

If Harris wins the border mess will not be cleaned up. It will get worse, by design. The Biden Harris administration could have stopped the influx, but they decided to accelerate it. Harris and the Democrats want to get as many migrants as they can into the country. They know that there is strength in numbers. 10, 15, 20 million migrants, the more that are let in the better for leverage down the road. Sure, maybe we could deport a million, but 20 million? Their needs will grow and so will government. The calls for amnesty will grow. At some point the migrant will organize into a union and demand rights. Housing, healthcare and the right to vote. If 20 million people decide that they are not going to follow the law, what are we going to do? That’s right, give in.

The odds are likely that we will face a recession in the next 4 years. Do we want a pro free market capitalist businessman like Trump in charge, or do we want the economically illiterate Kamala Harris in charge? Harris praised Bidenomics as “working”. Which one would do a better job calming the markets. Imagine her trying to calm the fears of the American people with one of her long-convoluted word salads. The recession would be far deeper with her in office. Panic would set in, once she starts addressing the nation. I can hear her, “We are doing, what we should be doing, which is what we started doing on day one.” Then she would remind everyone, “I came from the middle class.”

And over the last 4 years, because of the weakness of the Biden Harris administration the world has become a mess. Trump was respected by world leaders, maybe not liked but respected and feared, which is far more important than being liked. Kamala Harris will be viewed as a joke. Everywhere in the world people will know that she got the job based solely on gender and race. They will listen to her and in five seconds be able to tell that she is not up for the job. They will walk all over her and our country’s status will take a huge hit.

It reminds me of that scene from the movie Braveheart, when an aide suggests to the King that he send the Prince, the Kings effeminate son, to negotiate with the Scots. The Scots who are fresh off a victory. The King responded that the very sight of the prince would only encourage them to take the entire country. Making Kamala Commander and Chief is nothing short of wreck less, and maybe suicidal.

You may not like his style or personality, but he did a great job as President. Inflation was lower, gas prices were lower, the border was secure, and there was peace in the world. What does Harris have to offer other than, “What can be unburden by what has been.”

Harris did a horrible job as Vice President. Biden opened up the border, and predictably a tidal wave of humanity rushed in. Millions of poor people that don’t speak English and many of whom have criminal records moved into our cities. Biden, too proud to restore Trump policies, gave Harris the task of securing the southern border, and she did nothing. Which she will continue doing if she is promoted to President. We can’t afford for more years of the invasion. An invasion that is continuing and will only increase if Harris wins. It stops if Trump wins. It’s that simple.

This election is as clear of a choice as any in my lifetime. Trump’s record vs. Harris. Lower inflation under Trump. Secure border under Trump. No wars under Trump.

Vote Trump.