Don's Tuesday Column

             THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   7/13/2021

   The left’s leaders, ideas and values

Well, the Democrat Party has had its own “Weird Al” for decades. “Weird Al” Yankovic, known for his musical parodies and polka medleys, adopted the moniker. An acquired comedic taste, if you’ve never watched “UHF,” it’s a whirlwind of satire and ludicrous plot twists. Plus, a pre-“Seinfield” Michael Richards unleashes one of the most over-the-top, wild-eyed, and frenetic performances ever.

Most Democrats wouldn’t know how “weird” was their one-time U.S. Senator and 1992 vice presidential candidate, Al Gore. The mental image of an open-robed “Weird Al” Gore, looking to have his “happy-ending” massage, may have been forgotten, though it was credibly reported. Add the bizarre twist of logic for the creator of the book and movie, “Inconvenient Truth,” with its projection of seas rising 20-30 feet, purchasing an ocean front mansion.

So, how weird was it for Al Gore to become the Veep candidate—and have literally no friends, by his own admission? Democratic operative, Harry McPherson, helped Daily Beast’s Gary Ginsberg (author “FIRST FRIENDS”) vet Gore to be Clinton’s running mate.

Not counting two fellow congressmen and a brother-in-law, Gore had no friends that he liked, relaxed with, travelled or drank with; no friends from Carthage, Harvard, Nashville or anywhere outside of Capitol Hill. Dems insisted Al Gore beat G.W. Bush and pined for Gore’s leadership for 4 years.

Elections, remember, are only stolen by Republicans named Bush and Trump—and, in Georgia, Brian Kemp, says electoral loser Stacey Abrams. Hillary Clinton insists to this day—without a hint of self-awareness of her and the DNC’s role in the fabrications contained in the “Steele Dossier” that fueled years of investigations, reports, suspicions, accusations and impeachment—that the presidency was “stolen” from her.

 

Democrats in Congress challenged the counting of Electors for Bush and Trump with no calls for their punishment, banning, “cancelling” or defunding by the media, Hollywood, corporations or academia. Don’t some otherwise sane, sensible and intellectually honest Democrats—in their quiet, private moments—doubt that they are following leaders with veracity, credibility and American values?

Or realize Trump was right about a lot? I’ve listed it all. Or what a presidential dumpster fire they had with Barack Obama? That’s not likely given the shameless, transparent effort by C-SPAN’s survey of presidential historians to paint Trump in the starkest, and Obama in the most flattering, terms. Two Princeton University historians claimed Barack Obama was a bipartisan president, as “his political temperament led him to seek out compromise positions with Republicans from the outset.”

Really? Obamacare was crafted by shutting out Republicans and any of their ideas; it got one House and zero Senate votes. “(Republicans) can join us. They can come for a ride, but they gotta sit in back.” They ran the economy into the ditch, he said, and “don’t know how to drive…gotta ride in the backseat…you can’t have the keys back.” Obama’s stimulus got zero House and two Senate Republican votes.

“Let’s consider the facts. Obama presided over the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression, and stagnant wages and low labor force participation plagued his entire presidency. An incredible 95 percent of the jobs created on his watch were part-time or contract jobs. America’s credit rating was downgraded for the first time in history on Obama’s watch. And let’s not forget the record deficits he accumulated…Some of Obama’s many scandals during his presidency: the Senate seat for sale scandal, the green energy loans scandal, Fast & Furious, the VA backlog scandal, the Benghazi attack cover-up, the Iran ransom scandal, the IRS scandal, and Spygate.

“Or how about August 2014, when 47 of 73 inspectors general wrote an open letter to Congress informing them that the Obama administration was obstructing investigations. Such a letter was unprecedented, and the systemic corruption and obstruction would have been considered an impeachable offense for almost any other president. In fact, several of his scandals were impeachable.” “Scandal-free Obama” is a major oxymoron.

Perhaps that’s why Joe Biden likes the phrase. Hunter Biden’s laptop emails reveal a family money machine whereby the name “Biden” became the “Golden Ticket” for son Hunter to rake in and distribute many millions in cash from Ukraine, China, Mexico etc.—with a hefty cut going to “the big guy,” Joe Biden, who gets to live like the top 0.1 percent on a government paycheck. Now, Hunter’s “artistic talents” fetch unreal sums from unnamed buyers for unrevealed distribution. Are you Democrats really cool with all that? Or keeping your heads firmly in sand?

Statistical experts analyzed polling results where Democrats were asked if they would have voted for Biden if they had been informed (by some institution devoted to finding things out and telling the public?) about Hunter Biden’s corruption and the thinly-veiled role father Joe played. Based on the percentages of Dems that wouldn’t have voted for Biden/Harris (10 to 20 percent) in each of the six swing states, Trump would have won each state comfortably, and the Electoral College solidly.

Take away 10 percent of Biden’s national vote and Trump wins by over a million votes; take away 20 percent and Trump wins the popular vote by over 9 million.

Between 10,300 and 35,000 illegal votes were cast in Georgia (Biden +11,779) by those unlawfully voting in precincts not their own (Margot Cleveland, The Federalist). 101,789 “obsolete” voters and 18,486 dead people were on the voting rolls. News media ignores it all to keep Biden’s legitimacy intact. I know Democrats “stole” any state where they fight, resist, sue and ignore judicial subpoenas to produce 2020 election materials for forensic audit and examination. I provided “evidence” in 10 columns on that election’s fraud. Biden isn’t going away; neither is Donald J. Trump.