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How Many Times?

How many times are we expected to believe that Team Trump is more professional in 2024? Are they too young to remember this disastrous photo-op from 1988?

I’m sorry for picking on my countryman Michael Dukakis but that stunt helped torpedo his campaign. At least he didn’t look like The Joker.

How many times are we expected to tolerate the intolerable from the intolerant?

How many times are we expected to believe that violent rhetoric won’t lead to violence?

How many times are we expected to believe that the Dipshit Insurrection was a love fest? It was more like Altamont than Woodstock.

How many times are we expected to buy the Trumpist spin as peddled by the Politico-Axios axis? They’re little more than press agents for MAGA Republicans.

How many times are we expected to believe that Trump is winning? If you’re denying you’re a Nazi, you’re losing. If you change your closing message every day, you’re losing.

How many times are we expected to listen to the legacy media tell us that abortion is a third rail issue? Women will decide this election whether Trump likes it or not.

How many times are we expected to believe that Trump and Vance will preserve the ACA? MAGA Mike begs to differ.

How many times are we expected to believe that the polls are accurate when they’ve been wrong so often? The final polls in 2012 showed Willard Mittbot Romney winning. I didn’t buy what the pollsters were selling then and I don’t buy it now.

How many times are we expected to buy the MAGA spin that Kamala Harris is stupid because she’s on message? Message discipline used to be a GOP strength: It’s how the idiot son of the 41st president became 43.

How many times are we expected to believe that Donald Trump is the only one telling the truth? According to him, everyone else is a liar. If his former aides are all degenerates, why did he hire them?

How many times will I be obliged to write about the Insult Comedian’s appalling sexism, racism, and anti-Semitism? I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. Nevertheless, I persist.

Finally, I’m even more optimistic about the election than Cassandra. I think there’s a decent chance that Rick Scott and Ted Cruz will lose their Senate seats. In Texas, Cruz faces the perfect challenger in Colin Allred. He stood prepared to defend the House chamber on January 6 while Ted Cruz cowered in a supply closet. Who’s the real Texan? It’s the former NFL linebacker, not the snotty Ivy League educated lawyer.

The Allred-Cruz race reminds me of the 2015 Gret Stet Governor’s race when straight arrow John Bel Edwards defeated Diaper Dave Vitter. He was the right candidate for that race. Colin Allred is the right candidate to take out the smirking Senator Cruz who lounged on the beach in Cancun while Texans froze their asses off in 2021.

Could I be wrong about the 2024 election? In a word: Yes. But I’m a survivor, I lived through 4 landslide Republican victories out of 5 presidential elections. I survived the mid-term disasters of 1994 and 2010, so I can handle being wrong this time around. BUT I’ve never seen a campaign close as shambolically as the Trump-Vance ticket. They know they’re losing, so should you.

Repeat after me: I prefer to err on the side of optimism.

The last word goes to Fairport Convention: