Poles show Joe’s approval ratings remain in the toilet. Only 41% of voters approve of him. If Republicans were to nominate a decent candidate, they would beat him. But, they are not going to nominate a decent candidate for president. They are going to nominate Donald Trump. And they will lose if they do.
That is why I oppose Trump. Joe is going to defeat him in November and we will have four more years of senile, incompetent old Joe. That is why I oppose Trump as the Republicans’ presidential candidate. He was a good president, but if Republicans nominate him, we get Joe for another four years and that will be a disaster.
Last week, in a Quinnipiac University poll, Joe ekes out a bare victory over Trump. A majority of Republicans supported Trump but most independents did not want him. That is what put Joe over the top, he barely won in 2020. That is what is going to get Trump this fall. Trump’s reckless rhetoric alienates independents.
Personally, I would like to see Republicans nominate Nikki Haley. She is a traditional Republican Conservative. She isn’t perfect, but polls show that she will beat Joe by a comfortable margin. She isn’t perfect, but an imperfect conservative is better than Joe. Haley has enough money to stay in the primary race through the South Carolina Primary and into Super Tuesday. I doubt she will pull off a turn-around, but there is a chance.
On the other hand, Trump may beat Joe. A RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Trump leading Joe. So, maybe, Quinnipiac University aside, maybe Trump will win. This will be funny after all the work “Democrats” have put into making sure Republicans nominate Trump through enraging them by weaponizing the “justice” system against him. All those indictments boosted him from a force that was on his way out to the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Trump may end up winning with disillusioned “Democrats” sitting out the election like many did in 2016 when the “Democrats” nominated Satan’s Sister. We could see independents, who don’t like either Trump or Joe opting for a third party candidate while fired-up MAGA Republicans enthusiastically vote for Trump. Trump will head to the White House, while Joe will head off to a nursing home with a good memory care unit.
Joe wanted to run against Trump and he reminds me of the old saying, “Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.”
So, we may end up with four more years of Trump instead of four more years of senile old Joe. On one hand, he will spend his first day in office wearing out three or four pens signing executive orders to countermand the leftwing extremist nonsense. On the other hand, his foreign policy may suck. John Bolton, if you believe him, wrote a rather apocalyptic vision of Trump’s foreign policy in the Feb. 1 Wall Street Journal. It didn’t include a beast with seven heads and 10 horns rising out of the sea, but it was close. If Bolton is right, it may be a good idea to find a nice cave to hide in for the next four or five years.
Meanwhile, Friday was Groundhog Day. I went out of my burrow that morning and saw my shadow, so we will have six more weeks of winter. Or, does that only work if you are a groundhog? What if I self-identify as a groundhog? Will that help?
