Friends, allow me to convey official WaddyIsRight kudos and congratulations to Florida Governor Rick Scott, who, after much electoral hanky-panky, has been declared the winner of this year's Senate race, which pitted him against Skeletor -- ahem! excuse me -- against Democrat Bill Nelson. It was a hugely expensive and hard fought race, and a super-close one, but in the end Scott prevailed, as he tends to do. He did it partly by spending millions of dollars of his own money. Well, I suppose if Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg can do it, so can Rick Scott. It's an investment in good governance, after all! Needless to say, I'm very pleased to see the Republican majority in the Senate growing, and I'm very relieved to see Republicans maintaining their dominance at all levels in the great state of Florida. Long may it last!
Here's a great analysis of how Florida Republicans have kept Hispanics in play, with special emphasis on this year's Governor's race, won by Ron DeSantis.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38487/how-republicans-won-florida-jeremy-frankel
Dr. Waddy: Huzza, huzza. Florida was a BIG win for us. The rejection both there and in Georgia of prospectively radical governors in states that do not want such inappropriate rule (as RULE it would have been), is to celebrated. Scott may be our future.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Another thought. As far as I'm concerned, yet another purposeful effort by the Dems to steal an important election has failed, highlighting their petulant sense of entitlement. They need to get a life.
ReplyDeleteJack, the unwillingness of Democrats to concede, even when they have clearly come up short, betrays their petulance, as you point out, and also their lust for power and the supreme contempt in which they hold those who dare to dissent. Brian Kemp got more votes than any candidate for Governor in Georgia history (so we're told) -- and yet it's the tiny number of Democratic voters who were mildly inconvenienced that truly matter, according to the Dems. That's rich.
ReplyDeleteAt least we won't hear quite so much about gerrymandering, now that the Dems have taken the House...
Dr. Waddy: Inconvenienced they are. Their dismissiveness is a convenience for them and is firmly in the tradition of the left. Rather than attend to human considerations when dealing with populations which had excited his antipathy, Stalin simply and conveniently proscribed them in order to "justify" all manner of summary atrocities. Marx advocated such treatment for Jews. The modern American left conveniently dismisses two hundred years of painfully evolved U.S. progress and its products like the rule of law and meaningful elections. When thwarted by the unwashed, they "feel" very inconvenienced and, like Stacy Abrams, indulge in disgraceful juvenile and vindictive behavior. I suppose that is to be expected from a movement which put so much presumptuous stock in its youth back in "their" day.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jack. Those who cringe at Donald Trump's violations of social and political norms should recall who began the demolition of normalcy itself, back in the 50s and 60s... Those lousy beatniks! They have a lot to answer for.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Actually though, as I remember the Beat generation, with whom I had almost no direct contact as a 7th grader, they were a bunch of smoky, harmless eccentrics. Maynard G. Krebs may have been exemplary. Its one reason I'm amused by Bernie Sanders. Just think, he was there in,no doubt, a turtle neck sweater and beret, grooving to "This land is your land" and the by then passe "Little Boxes"(a more revealing example of leftist perfectionism would be hard to find than that Pete Seeger anthem of disdain). I know alot of people for whom post war suburbia was an undreamed of windfall. It was one hell of alot better than "da old neighborhood" in "da ward" in Buffalo. Oh, but not for Pete and Woody. Still, their perfectionist disdain and that of their beatnik avatars was nothing compared to that of the deadly serious New Left which may have aped their mannerisms by 1965, but was decisively committed to leftist destruction of America. And so they have remained to this day. The difference is that they have invaded and infected the highest levels of power, courtesy of the boomers.
ReplyDeleteI defer to your expertise in this area, Jack. All I know is that the rot of leftism usually starts with the "commanding heights" not of the economy but of intellectualism and culture. Those beatniks might have seemed harmless at the time, mainly because the "real America" was strong and wise enough to scoff at them, but I'll bet they were a formative influence on a lot of the troublemakers of the 60s...
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Good points, good points. They were, you are right. I saw their influence very first hand, in the bars, in my dorm room , in student government then. So many of us boomers (not all!) were so messed up.I take note that your next post discourses on the leftist influence on our culture and look forward to considering it.
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