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The more the incumbent publicly discloses strategic plans for dealing with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the more obvious it becomes that, as usual for this POTUS, politics outweighs the long range good of the nation.

 

To date, there have been far more edicts regarding what he won’t do than input about what he will. Which is why ISIS leadership is relocating its weaponry, supplies and personnel to places defined as safer than others due to the U.S. continually tipping its hand.  

  

In that regard, former defense secretary Robert M. Gates, still an influential figure at the Pentagon according to CBS News, “bluntly criticized his former boss,” by saying, ”There will be boots on the ground if there’s to be any hope of success in the strategy. Adding that “the president in effect traps himself” by repeating his mantra that he won’t send U.S. troops into combat.

 

However, what it all boils down to is that the incumbent’s plan is to keep troop commitments quiet until election day passes in November, thereby temporarily appeasing his voting base. Because, “There are signs that the White House is becoming more flexible. Antony Blinken, the deputy national security adviser, allowed Thursday that “there may be cases where American advisers would go with some of the forces on the ground” or help “to call in some air power” — the kind of leeway the Pentagon wants.”

 

Which means that, sooner or later, despite all the politically-motivated denials, U.S. troops will surely start moving into the region again to regain what was lost by their mistakenly being pulled out in the first place. 

 

On another matter, Karl Rove wrote a Wall Street Journal article titled: “Why a GOP Senate Majority Is Still in Doubt.”

 

According to Mr. Rove, “As of this writing, between Sept. 1 and election day, Democratic Senate candidates, party committees and outside groups have run or placed $109 million in television advertising, while Republican candidates, party committees and groups have $85 million in television time.

 

Still, Republican candidates and groups must step up if they are to substantially reduce that gap.”

 

Now, to me, Mr. Rove has always come across as one of the most well-informed, insightful political experts there are. What’s more, he possesses an astounding memory containing countless facts, figure and statistics, applying them at his fingertips.

 

Which is why his subject today is quite surprising, whereas, unless he’s trying to scare his constituents into buying unneeded ads for some unknown reason, I can’t figure out what he’s worried about. Because, all the ads in the world aren’t going to change the damage done to the voting public by Democrats in office today, nor coax voters into allowing them to keep or win seats in Congress.

 

Furthermore, Mr. Rove thinks that voters want “candidates from both parties to talk about broader concerns like jobs, the economy, health care, energy, government spending and national security, and they are more than open to the GOP message.”

 

But, despite my respect for Mr. Rove, his comment sounds like someone whose world’s located inside the Beltway in DC. Because on each of the subjects he mentioned, voters don’t want talk or “messages,” they want fixes and solutions to their problems. And most of those ills, if not all of them, were caused directly by a Democrat POTUS and majority in the Senate.

 

Therefore, although a few more ads might help, this time around the voting public will decide what it wants and needs all by itself. And at the moment, those choices are all leaning heavily toward Republicans, regardless of what any pundits suspect, think or are worried about.

 

That's it for today folks.

 

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