BloggeRhythms

In a sequel to yesterday's posting, where is was noted that much of the Republican hierarchy has its head in the sand, Alex Isenstadt @politico.com headed his column: “Furious GOP donors stew over Trump” 

The first two paragraphs are sufficient to get the gist of the rest of the article, as follows: 

“Donald Trump is trying to win over a skeptical Republican donor class, but they’ve closed their wallets — and they’re angry. 

“On Friday afternoon, at an exclusive Republican donor retreat here hosted by Mitt Romney, frustration boiled over. During an off-the-record question-and-answer session with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Meg Whitman, the billionaire Hewlett Packard chief executive officer, confronted the speaker over his endorsement of Trump. Whitman, a major GOP giver who ran for California governor in 2010, compared Trump to historical demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and wanted to know how the speaker could get behind him.” 

So, here again we have Republican elitists who’ve failed to convince voters of their own worth rebelling against an outsider whose primary performance shattered the previous record by 1.4 million votes. And that was with 17 candidates in the race. 

Thus, its worth mentioning again about how this phenomenon happened. 

In Trump’s case, instead of taking a holier than than thou approach and telling voters why he was so much better than others, he went out, found out what those voters really wanted and promised to give it to them. Which, as mentioned here yesterday, was what any intelligently aware businessman would do when trying to attract customers. 

On the hand, however, this bunch of retread, tired old has-been party hacks prefer to act like children whose lunches have been stolen right out from under them. And, instead of trying to find out how to employ what Trump’s discovered about voters wants and needs to insure victory for their party in November, they’ve chosen to get together in Utah and cry in their beer. Or whatever it is that over-the-hill politicians drink. 

In summary, in order to get a better picture of what’s really happened here is that Trump's offered his constituents an opportunity to join him in modernizing his adopted party to adapt to solving problems in the 21st century. Conversely, the greying old fogies on the party’s other side are still trying to get by in a fast moving world while still using buggy-whips. 

And that’s why Trump not only stole their party right out from under them, until they wake up and realize how far behind the times they are, they’re never going to get it back.  

Then, a friend sent this one: 

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

Alan He @cbsnews.com, covered a speech Trump delivered in Richmond, Virginia yesterday that illustrates what the next five months of Bill’s wife will probably look like, if she’s lucky enough to dodge indictment for the emails she flagrantly mishandled.

Trump said: “We have a president that doesn't know what the hell he's doing, folks. I hear he's going to take a lot of time, during our time, when he's supposed to be looking at trade and the military and all of these things, and he's going to campaign for Crooked Hillary."

"You know what? That's OK. That's OK," Trump said before then issuing a veiled threat to the president. "Because if he does that, we're allowed to say things about him that normally we wouldn't bring up. Remember when Bill started campaigning?"

“That was a reference to Trump's willingness to attack Clinton by alleging sexual misconduct on the part of her husband, former President Clinton, in ways that go beyond the usual political back and forth. 

“Throughout the night, Trump attempted to portray Hillary Clinton as corrupt. In one instance, he told the crowd: "She and her husband hate Obama. Everybody knows it. Right now she's like, 'Yes, sir. No, sir. How should I vote?' She's petrified because she doesn't want to go to jail. The system is rigged. Bernie found it out." 

Thus, while there’s plenty of opportunity for both presidential candidates to belittle, disparage and disgrace each other, considering their highly questionable backgrounds Trump probably has the edge in this department. 

And that’s because, while Trump has made many significant mistakes as a businessman, his shortcomings don’t include putting the nation’s vital information at risk to computer hackers from who knows where. He also didn’t drop the ball and then try to cover up his errors with boldfaced lies, as occurred in the case of Benghazi.  Nor did he extort hundreds of millions from anywhere and anyone possible in a phony foundation front for a personal, family slush fund.

And finally, he doesn’t have a resume whose claims of skill, competence and personal achievement in government office, has more holes than a trainload of cheese from Switzerland. 

Bringing up the ongoing question again: Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?     

That’s it for today folks.     

Adios