The Grass Keeps Right on Growing

The grass keeps right on growing
The sun goes right on shining,
there are apples on the apple tree.
Ain't life a funny thing? Flowers bloom and birds still sing
and everything's the same except for me .  ~ Gloria Shayne

 

You know, I thought I wouldn't have to write this blog post.

I thought, at least I hoped, the Republican Party-the political party of mature adults-the political party that was not given to whims or flights of fancy, would send Donald J. Trump back to reality television. It turns out, in reality, Trump will be the nominee of The Republican Party.

God, have they lost their ever lovin' minds?

I have been pretty clear as to why I was a founding member of #NeverTrump.

1. The man, who wants to be the Commander and Chief, denigrated John McCain's service to this country as a Prisoner of War. The man who got four deferments for a medical condition of his foot and he can't remember which foot. Incidentally, McCain was the Republican standard bearer in 2008 and Trump will expect McCain to fall in line. Not likely.

2. The man, in a public speech after Mitt Romney's speech blasting him said, "He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees." I don't have to translate this for you. Trump is tacky and vulgar. Apparently, money cannot buy you class.

3. Speaking of Romney, it is said Romney spoke Conservatism as a second language. Trump speaks conservatism as if he's carrying around a Berlitz Language Book and saying words loud as he possibly can like he's an ugly American tourist in Paris.  Trump is not a conservative in manner, thought, or deed.  He's gaudy, ostentatious, and I would be shocked if he ever heard of Edmund Burke.

4. My nickname for Trump: Dumb Donald. Look, he was unfamiliar with The Nuclear Triad. That's like a builder not knowing about concrete. He doesn't know or care that The Smoot-Hawley Tariff exacerbated The Great Depression and yet he argues for high tariffs if other countries doesn't give us "good deals". He doesn't know or care that the phrase "America First" carries baggage because of The America First Committee which tried to keep the US out of World War II and was full of German Sympathizers.

5. He has a penchant of accepting, apparently at face value, any stupid conspiracy theory that comes down the pike. Four years ago, he was going to "prove" Obama was born in Kenya (Obama wasn't and Trump didn't)  Now, he's peddling that Ted Cruz's dad was somehow involved in The Kennedy Assassination. If the race had gone any further, I'm sure Trump would have figured out some way of tying Cruz with the Manson Family or O.J. Simpson.

Those are just five reasons, and I could come up with more if you give me another second, of why I don't think Trump is fit to be President.

Look, I know everybody on my side of the river is "mad" at "career politicians".  I know Ted Cruz is a goofy looking guy-the kind that would look at you like you really shouldn't have that beer because God doesn't want you to drink. But really, Trump?

I have no idea what I'm going to do in November. If Trump somehow transforms himself from this ugly duckling of a candidate into a beautiful swan of a possible President, maybe I could hold my nose and vote for him. Maybe if he has a good running mate.  But it is going to take an industrial size clothes pin.

I could vote for a Third Party, although that 's kind of like going ahead and voting for Hillary. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt.

By the way, don't start the brow beating that "this is the most important election of our lifetime" and I "must" vote for Trump.

Inez (my mom) always stressed to me to vote for the man and not the party. The problem is both candidates are deeply flawed, to say the least.

But the grass will keep on growing no matter who wins and the sun will keep right on shining. Just the thought of having to choose between these two amoral snakes makes me shudder and it is really disappointing that we can't do better.

I will say this: if Hillary wins, y'all are going to get an "I told you so".

 It will be huge.