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And on Cue, the Media Smears Launch Against DeSantis
Republican primary voters should pay most attention to who the media attacks rather than the most often
vacuous merits of the attacks.
Plenty of people have their concerns about Donald Trump’s electability given his scary high negatives among voters—and aside from legitimate election integrity concerns. And while Trump presents a target-rich environment for the unscrupulous Democratic media establishment, the reality has always been that any Republican will face similar treatment.
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his presidential bid this week, the media hit jobs also launched in earnest. The observable reality is that the amount of attacks on DeSantis dwarf the rest of the field combined—minus, of course, Trump. If measured by malignity, there are only two Republicans the Left establishment does not want. And possibly one considerably more than the other
Answering the Big Question: Ron or Don?
A very dear friend and a former Heritage Foundation associate responded to my last column on American Thinker with the following:
Happy to tell you in a private email why the GOP needs to dump Trump (for whom I voted twice), but it requires too many bad words that would cause my dear late mother to go for the soap for use in a public forum. For starters, let’s just say he’s a thin-skinned, immature, undisciplined **shole who is ignorant by choice, erratic in his behavior, and disloyal. And those are some of his better points. Do I hate him? No. But I hate his type.
I dearly hope he’s still my dear friend after he reads my response:
I see your point, XXXX, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about his personality. The world is loaded with megalomaniacs in charge . All I care about is what he does and did as president. Considering the fact that he has been seriously attacked and maligned since announcing his candidacy, he is not the same as he was before and much of what he has become has been a reaction to the barrage of the vilification
Memorial Day 2023: Burial At The Battle Of Camden
It has been almost 243 years since the Battle of Camden was fought during the American Revolution.
According to the American Battlefield Trust, the Battle of Camden, which was fought near Camden, South Carolina, on August 16, 1780, was “one of several devastating defeats suffered by the Americans in the early stages of the British military offensive in the South.”
In July, American Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates marched his army into South Carolina, intent on liberating the state from British control. As Gates neared Camden, word of his movement reached Cornwallis at his headquarters in Charleston. The British commander immediately left the city to take the field against Gates. The armies approached one another north of Camden early on the morning of August 16, 1780.”
After a brief skirmish Gates formed his men for battle. He made a critical error in his deployment. Under the custom of 18th Century warfare, the most experienced units were placed on the right of the line. Gates positioned the veterans from the Maryland and Delaware Line on the right. He should have recognized, however, that his opponent would do the same. The American commander positioned inexperienced Virginia militia under Brig. Gen. Edward Stevens on his left.”
From the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’ to the Bulls*** Age of Wokeness
You may not recognize that long-legged young bathing beauty, but she was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars back in the day when the movie business was run by men who knew how to make money by producing movies that people actually wanted to watch. Strangely enough, while many today would scoff at the old-fashioned capitalist greed that motivated Hollywood producers in mid-20th-century America, many of the movies they made were artistically superior to anything produced by the soi disant “progressive” filmmakers of our own era, including the 1947 classic in which our long-legged bathing beauty starred.
Today’s ultra-woke studios have no original ideas, and specialize instead in ripping off old movies, remaking beloved classics and turning them into merde. How could they ruin Indiana Jones? That franchise was solid gold, and yet they found a way to turn it into crap. And they performed a similar feat with The Little Mermaid, turning a beloved children’s cartoon into a live-action box office disaster. A major part of what’s gone wrong in 21st-century Hollywood is that they’ve become obsessed with “representation” of various political causes (e.g., cramming gay and transgender themes into every project) and “diversity” in casting.
This Memorial Day, Remember The Courage And Forgiveness That Made America Great
Memorial Day was founded on the biblical ideals of forgiveness and reconciliation shortly after America’s most divisive and bloody conflict, the Civil War, which extended from 1861 to 1865. That conflict cost at least 620,000 men, more casualties than all of America’s other wars combined — the two World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Middle East wars.
The United States was so mercilessly divided at the time of the Civil War that many thought reconciliation impossible. And yet, it began with humble and virtuous actions from the vanquished South, not the victorious North.
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was established to honor the dead from the Civil War. The holiday’s origin dates to April 25, 1866, when a former chaplain in the Confederate Army accompanied a group of women from Columbus, Mississippi, to Friendship Cemetery — the burial ground for about 1,600 men who died in the Battle of Shiloh — for the purpose of honoring the dead with decorations of flowers. At that time, Union Army forces occupied Columbus, like the rest of the South, and some townspeople feared they would create new animosity if the decorations favored Confederate over Union graves.
The prayerful Columbus women had no such intention despite having heard about the Union’s cavalier burial treatment of Confederate soldiers on northern battlefields. Their equal decoration of the graves of both sides became a catalyst for a national reconciliation movement. The New York Herald editorialized: “The women of Columbus, Mississippi, have shown themselves impartial in their offerings to the memory of the dead … strew[ing] flowers alike on the graves of the Confederate and of the Union soldiers.”
A second claimant for originating Decoration Day took place on Belle Isle located in the James River in Richmond, Virginia — the capital of the Confederacy. On May 30, 1866, women placed bouquets of flowers on the graves of Union soldiers who died at the Confederate prisoner of war camp located there.
MEMORIAL DAY IN A DIVIDED NATION
It is important to honor our wartime dead. But Memorial Day has a powerful meaning that we have forgotten. It was the holiday that reunited our country after the Civil War. It began when Americans, from the North and the South, entered the cold gray stone fields of the dead, and decorated the graves of the fallen from the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederacy with freshly cut flowers.
They followed no presidential order. They acted under no regulation. Instead the mothers and wives of men who would return home no more brought flowers to the graves of their fallen sons and husbands, and to the resting places of the young American men who might have slain them, who had been the enemy, but who still deserved honor and respect.
Those women, of the North and the South, brought America together.
Today a new breed of leftists gleefully tears down Confederate memorials. And it will not end with flags and statues. They will not be satisfied until the cemeteries that were once decorated have been desecrated. It is ominously fitting that the event which marked the end of one civil war now arrives to foreshadow the beginning of another war between brothers.
Individualist/Writer/Blogger/Historian/Sometime pain in the ass. Unapologetic Lover of the Founders, America, the South, our Constitution. Proud descendant of numerous American and Confederate veterans. And yes, massive Gator fan.
No patience for cancel culture, and the Marxists who hide behind it.
Lover of good beer, good BBQ, and yes beautiful women.
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