It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it!
Lost track of losing candidates who complained their supporters forgot to vote. They forgot to vote because you were a forgettable candidate, numb skull! A cipher who stood for nothing, mumbled platitudes, and hid when the shooting started.
Too many local candidates are afraid to stir the pot, poke a few eyes, piss in the punchbowl. Say this for Donald Trump: he has brass to spare!
We are excerpting the essential 84-year-old Lance Morrow from today’s Wall Street Journal (strike breast, bow head):
Sometimes politicians suffer from what might be called a deficit of detestability. One glum day in January 1988, I was seated at the counter of a diner in New Hampshire, stirring a cup of tepid coffee. Beside me sat Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, a candidate for president. He was taking a break from the campaign. No one in the diner recognized him or paid the slightest attention to him.
He had the snub nose, china-blue eyes and bleached-white eyebrows of a middle-aged altar boy, an air of vanilla innocence — of harmlessness that was almost embarrassing. He seemed a little disconsolate. We were talking about George Wallace’s fiery campaign for president in 1972 and the day someone shot him in a parking lot in Laurel, Md.
On an impulse, I asked Mr. Gephardt: “Do you ever get assassination threats?”
A faraway, wistful look came into his eyes, and he said: “Jeez, I wish.”
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Joe Biden would be the same shade of gray except that he had and has again Trump to run against. You are either voting for Trump or whomever is his opponent — matters not.
Like Mike Pence, we cannot vote for either, which has us looking at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sure, he’s a vaccine nut. His uncle was a sex hound. Kamala (reputedly) wore out several sets of knee pads. Insofar as we known, RFK Jr. has led no insurrection.
Bobby Junior is tantalizing voters by floating possible running mates. Aaron Rodgers was interesting but Mike Rowe would be sensational!
Is anyone more blue collar than the guy who does Dirty Jobs? Mike Rowe is more plain-talking than Harry Truman. Bill Buckley would have been proud at how he fenced with Erin Burnett who, like all CNN hosts, are in the tank for Joe Biden. Bobby Junior says he will announce his running mate March 26 in California. (Stay away from the Ambassador Hotel!)
Blaska’s Bottom Line: RFK Jr. is running as an independent, so he will NOT be on Wisconsin’s April 2 presidential preference ballot. (It’s a ghost ballot — even Asa Hutchinson is listed!) But Junior needs only 1,000 signatures gathered between July 1 and August 6 to get on the November 5 ballot. Hellz bellz, Blaska needed 100 to run for Madison school board.
Kennedy For President will have a stand at Madison’s farmers market on the Hamilton Street side of Capitol Square on Saturday, April 13. Nationally, Kennedy polls 12% against Trump’s 41%, Biden’s 35%, according to a HarrisX poll released Monday. Can we throw this thing into the House of Representatives?
4 responses to “Mike Rowe for veep!”
“Mike Rowe is more plain-talking than Harry Truman.”
He PLAIN-TALKED…nay…b!tchslapped Feel-The-Bern’s latest effort encouraging Lefty to be as LAZY as him:
Sanders’ 32-Hour Workweek Plan The Latest Example Of Society’s Proclivity To ‘VILIFY WORK’
The Gotch
Bernie is telling the youth of America to work less, Biden is telling them that loans don’t have to be repaid, and TikTok is telling them that displays of their idiocy will make them superstars. What could go wrong?
If for some reason RFK Jr. picks someone else for VP, Trump should snag Mike. They both know the power of modern media and how to mold it to their purposes. And Mike’s self-effacing genuineness would be the perfect complement to Donald’s self-aggrandizing fakery.
Brilliant! I would vote for that ticket.