Kevyn wrote:
We watched the dignified funeral services of two very different and great Americans this weekend and the praise heaped upon them by statesmen and dignitaries. Who do you think will taint themselves giving a eulogy when your illustrious Pumpkinfuhrer gives up the ghost? Perhaps his pal Vlad, Richard Spencer, Roy Moore? Nutjobs like Hannity, Limbaugh and Alex Jones come to mind. The point being that no one of any stature or sense of decency will touch the job with a dung fork.
The answer to your question, Kevyn, is I will. I would be proud to get up and say a few words about how I admired the way someone who had lived the kind of life he had, decided it was time he gave back to the country that provided him and his family with so many wonderful opportunities and a lifestyle that few had.
I'd talk about following his journey, first facing all the "best" the Republican party had to offer in the primaries and how he was able to outshine them all. How much I liked that he spoke bluntly, without the odious doublespeak that is the tool of the politician. How most times it seemed like 1 against 16 - and how he relished the challenge. How he spent a lot of his own money, and how he pledged that he did so, so that he didn't owe the kinds of favors others do when elected.
I'd talk about how he faced the Queen of the Democrat party (Lady Hillary as permafrost likes to call her), along with her enormous machine - which we're finding out each day was not just huge sums of money and crooked dealings by the DNC, but that included a weaponized intelligence cabal and a justice department that was doing everything in their power to ensure that her inevitable rise to power was assured.
I would pay special attention to what happened on the day that Democrats have seared in their brains forever - America's We Are NOT With Her Day. I may even gloat a bit, when I talk about how, even today, it brings a smile to my face to watch the many online compilations of those sneering leftist pundits (Maddow et al.) as they went from back-slapping "It's all over but the coronation" to "You're awake by the way. You're not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell. This is your life now." all in the space of about 6 hours.
(Sorry Kevyn, just reminiscing once again.
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Then of course, I'd speak of what I thought about his performance as President Of The United States Of America. How though he faced an incessant firestorm of criticism from the left, the media, the sports world, Hollywood, rhinos and other entrenched republicans - he managed to chisel out major changes that stopped the slide of our country into irrelevance on the world stage and loss of supremacy within our own borders. Never had I been able with a previous President to make a list of campaign promises and see so many checked off during less than the first 2 years.
I might mention how the small business I've worked at for over 20 years has seen it's future assured when we expected to close the doors by now had Hillary been elected and continued the Obama economic policies that had crippled small businesses with unneeded regulation during his reign. I might say something about the renaissance in manufacturing that's taken place; about unemployment numbers; about the huge number of good people who were finally able to get off the welfare and food-stamp rolls now that they were working at decent paying jobs; about the economic numbers.
Then I would probably talk about the man himself and his family. It's at this point that I would say honestly that President Trump was a flawed man. We had all witnessed his infidelities and his philandering. We'd seen what a prideful, self-preening, egotist he was. Which was all the more reason it made no sense that he give up what little privacy he had and sacrifice his lifestyle to step up and do for America what I'm convinced is something only he could've done. Grab the wheel that was driving us into darkness and wrench it 180 degrees so that we could go back in the right direction, at least for a time. We won't truly know the full story until after it's played out.
But I know this - if John McCain can be buried as a hero - then Donald J. Trump can be no less!