The Right Candidate for VP of the United States

The Republican party has a wealth of talent qualified to be vice president. Still, there is one outstanding choice, Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia. He starts with a spectacular résumé. Basketball scholarship to Rice University in Houston, Texas, MBA from Harvard, McKinsey, First Boston and finally co-CEO of the Carlisle group. He demonstrated keen political instincts beating Terry McAuliffe, a former governor. At 57 years old he has a healthy 29 year marriage with four children. It has been said that Americans vote for the guy they would most like to have a beer with. Bill Clinton exemplified this when he overcame rampant corruption as governor of Arkansas and serial cheating in his marriage to become president in 1992. He was charming and he was likable, and he beat Paul Tsongas for the nomination and George Bush for the presidency. Who among possible vice presidential candidates would you rather have a beer with than Glenn Younkin? Even given his short political career, he is camera ready. He has Bill Clinton‘s charm without the oiliness. Real or imagined the public display of President Trump’s ego has not served him well. No doubt Youngkin has as large an ego, but it is held in tow. This has led to record approval ratings two years into his term. The only area of weakness is among women who dislike his stance on abortion and transgender rights. These are issues any Republican will face. A realpolitik analysis of his nomination makes the decision compelling. Trump is polling even with Biden in Virginia, a state that has been blue for 20 years. If he wins Virginia, the election is over. He will win in a landslide. Voters will recognize Governor Youngkin ability to take over should Trump have health problems. His nomination will return a great number of the “never Trumpers“ to the party and those who have flirted with straying will remain. But for Republicans it is better yet. Nobody in the party is more qualified to run for president in ‘28. Nominating him will not only enhance the likelihood of a Trump victory, it will enhance the likelihood of a Republican in the oval office for 12 years and a possible realignment of voters throughout the country.

BDS: A Tutorial

The BDS movement (Boycott Divestiture Sanctions) against Israel is growing on college campuses and other leftist strongholds. I assert this this is just anti-semitism (reminiscent of the Nazis) disguised with 21st century robes. No informed man or woman could possibly believe there is any moral equivalency between the Palestinians, whose only purpose is to drive the Jews into the sea (aka exterminate them), and the Israelis who want one thing, to live in peace. But BDS goes further than just moral equivalency. They claim the Jews are the aggressor, as if reaching out to stop an attackers knife headed for your throat is a form of aggression. This anti-semitism by the Left is old hat, although they have re-written history putting the sins of the Left on the shoulders of the Right. The Nazis were a left wing party. Stalin was an ally, at least until Hitler thought he could successfully carry the battle to his eastern front. The Nazis name, The National Socialist Party should be enough to prove it. Mussolini and the Fascists were Hitlers staunch allies, and pure socialists. The history of Jew hatred is not the exclusive domain of the left, but they have dominated it for years. Why, one might ask, are so many Jews supporters of the Left. Most conservative and reform Jews are atheists. Many don’t know it themselves, but if you ask what happens when one’s heart stops beating, most will tell you that no part of that person transcends time, that there is no immortal soul. They worship progressivism, not God. Try this. Tell a progressive Jew that God is dead and he will likely give an inert response, but suggest that any progressive idea is failed and destructive and you will get an animated passionate argument. We should now and forever more identify the BDS movements for what it is, an anti-semitic group of haters spewing vile lies and slanders.

Nobel Prize: Once Again, the Hate Award

PFC Bradley Manning, the WikiLeaks leaker, has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. I thought the Nobel Prize committee hit bottom when the gave the prize to Yasser Arafat (terrorist and murderer of women and children), after his transparent ploy where he refused a peace deal that gave him everything imaginable, while claiming he wanted peace. Really, he wanted what every Palestinian wants, then and now…to drive the Jews into the sea. The Nobel Prizes have awarded many offensive prizes, as in Jimmy Carter (currently holding the dual distinctions as the worst President of the United States and the worst ex President of the United States), Paul Krugman (a political operative dressed up as an economist), and Barack Obama, POTUS, with no discernible accomplishment in his lifetime other than getting elected POTUS. Well, as difficult as it may be to sink even lower, the prize committee has done it. Manning is a traitor, has endangered many loyal Americans and their surrogates, and is likely responsible for the deaths of many others. Certainly he compromised our security more than any other person since 9/11. Hating George Bush used to put nominees on the inside tract for awards, but since he left office I suppose the new criterion is hating the United States.

Impossible Things

Alice did six impossible things before breakfast. The Obama administration seems to be trying to outdo her. I will call the most recent attempt the Immaculate Payment. For those who haven’t kept up with the administration outrages, it seems that Obamacare requires that Catholic institutions provide contraception in their employee health care policies, which is a violation of Catholic teachings and conscience. The first attempted “accommodation” by the administration was permission for the Catholic institutions to take a year beyond the intended initiation date to allow them time to prepare and make adjustments. How does one prepare for or make adjustments to a violation of conscience? After an ocean of public outrage the administration’s fall back position was that the institutions would not have to provide insurance covering contraception services, but the insurance companies that sold them health care would, and for free. Get it? Blue Cross would sell insurance to a Catholic hospital without contraception coverage, but would simultaneously give contraception coverage for free to the recipient of that health care. Now you get it… don’t you? In justifying the “need” for contraception coverage the administration falsely claimed the cost of such coverage ran up to $600 per year. Using that number, we are being told that insurance companies will provide $600 extra coverage for free. The part of the constitution that permits the feds to mandate such payments doesn’t pop right out in my mind. Should this Obama fantasy occur, it would be a truly immaculate payment. The debate is about government overreach, not contraception. Should government have the power to force religious based institutions to violate their conscience? Not only does the mandate require conventional contraception, but also the morning after pill and the week after pill. That sounds like abortion to me, in spite of the administration spokesman’s bogus claims to the contrary. Also, the “settlement” fails under any interpretation for those Catholic institutions that self insure, like the archdiocese of Washington DC. The good news is that the administration believes this is a political winner. They are so wrong it is laughable. They want to make it appear that Republicans are against birth control, rather than the real objection which is the government’s attack on religious liberty. Those who comprehend the real issue almost uniformly oppose this unprecedented intrusion, and unlike the others, they are very passionate about their beliefs. The bank mortgage settlement is another administration impossible thing. The banks were found guilty of robo-signing foreclosure documents. The law requires personal review by a bank employee to move foreclosure forward, and the banks had computers sign without review. They were guilty of a technical but real violation. A fine was the appropriate remedy, although you can count on one hand the people who were truly injured by it. Many people were put out of their homes, but the paperwork for 99% of them was correct. The fine for this injustice was 25 billion dollars. 5 billion will go to people forced out of their home (99% of whom would have suffered the same fate had the violation not occurred,) and the the balance will be used for mortgage adjustments for people who owe more than their house is worth. What you see at work is the heavy had of government, designed not to help homeowners, but to score political points. In fact homeowners will be hurt. Banks will impose stricter requirements for mortgages, there will be higher costs to the lender and consumer, and a justifiable exit from any area the government is involved in..aka..maneuvering for political advantage. More impossible things to come.