Making Goldwater Great Again
Not all that long ago, I was driving down South Broadway in St. Louis. I found myself following a Rambler American. Probably a 1963, though my knowledge of old Ramblers has grown cold over the years....
View ArticleTrump's unhinged and dystopian "Agenda 47" is his blueprint to build a...
Donald Trump is not hiding his program if he returns to power. He calls his 46 policies “Agenda 47” (an overlooked opportunity, or can’t he count?). At least he has the Nazis beat. They only had a...
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Time To Attack Trump/Vance on Competency to Hold the Nuclear Codes?
President Johnson and Barry Goldwater.In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson, no angel himself, ran a campaign ad that forever changed the national landscape for political ads.Senator Barry Goldwater, his...
View ArticleLet's Beat Barry!
No, that’s not let’s go Brandon. I know that Let’s Go Brandon would have attracted more immediate notice, but I don’t like clickbait any more than you do.So, it’s Let’s Beat Barry!For those not old...
View ArticleBump And Thump
Bump is a rise in the polls after a convention or some other significant event. Thump is what the party or candidate on the other end of the bump experiences (a drop in the polls). The Democratic...
View ArticleBarry Goldwater Said What? Sixty Years ago!
Running for the presidency in the early 1960s, Barry M. Goldwater defined conservatism as needing to refrain from insisting that biblical morality, such as it is, be any part of political governance....
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Sixty years ago LBJ went all the way to win a landslide over a dangerously...
In the 1964 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater, ignoring his advisers, insisted on using the campaign slogan,"In Your Heart, You Know He's Right," suggesting that he was only...
View ArticleI Dread The Next Two Years
Republicans (and Evangelical Christians) in the U.S. have become just as intolerant as the Taliban when it comes to things like abortion rights and LGBTQ rights and immigrants and on and on. They’re...
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