My concern is that RFK Jr will pull enough votes from Trump to re-enact the Bush/Clinton/Perot fiasco. Perot is the reason Clinton won. The protest vote. In this case, the protest voters don't seem to realize that Trump, for all his warts, is a far better choice than anything the Democrats have to offer. RFK would be much better than any Democrat under consideration, but he won't do more than pull votes from the other two options. I will vote for Trump if he is the nominee. I still think DeSantis is the best choice.

Not only that, but he had the entire establishment Republicans either refusing to support him, or actively working against him, as well !
Rush Limbaugh proposed a theory as to why . He suspected that most of the Rinos and ERs actually BELIEVED the Russian Collusion Delusion for a couple of years, and were afraid to hitch their wagon to the Trump train. Now, I do not know if that theory is right, but it certainly makes sense and would explain the lack of support Trump got from his own party.
Considering what Trump accomplished, against both solid active resistance from the Dems PLUS passive resistance and lack of support from his own party in Congress, I think it is absolutely INCREDIBLE what he got done for America! I will always be thankful to him for that.

It's unfortunate about what they're doing to Trump and your reaction is exactly what they're hoping to bottom his popularity so they can win. I do agree his mouth is his worst enemy. But as president, he did a great job WHEN HE COULD for him to do any good now he'd need to fire every government employee. This is how invasive the liberal communists have become in our government. So who do we blame in this blame game ??? OURSELVES we sat back and didn't notice what was happening. We allowed it to get worse till we could no longer ignore it . If Trump wins which I hope he does I see many attempts to assassinate him due to all the BS the Dems are throwing out to rile someone up to that point. For now he isn't giving up and neither should the people counting on him to put our country back on track

It seems counterproductive to take votes away from Trump because the Republicans in the House of Representatives can't nominate a Speaker. Why punish Trump? That's exactly what the Democrats want... (and by "Democrats" I am including the 25 or so House Republicans who are really Democrats because of the way they are voting). The Democrats have control of the Senate and the White House, and they are desperate to get back the House of Representatives by next year's election! My opinion is that the Democrats are paying the RINO's to vote against Jim Jordan because he is someone who can actually do damage to their cheating and rigging (which, by the way, they are already doing for the election next year!) I can't prove it, but it makes sense the way the voting is going - they want someone they can control! They certainly can't control Jordan!! And I think what's happening in Congress right now with this Speaker thing is planned so people will do exactly what you are saying you are going to do.

Ask yourself why are there so many RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) and NO "DINO's" (Democrats In Name Only)??!! I believe it is because the Democrats are continuing to do what they do best - cheating and rigging elections! They are power-hungry money grabbers and will stop at nothing to get control of not only our government but each and every single one of us. The wealthy will do much better than the Middle Class, too, because it's the Middle Class - which is half of all Americans - they want to get rid of. They already control the low classes with government monies (Welfare, Unemployment, food stamps, subsidies, etc.)

This is well thought out, and well written, Parky, and well detailed with factual, accurate information for anyone with eyes that are willing to see.

In a world culture that has ever increasingly given itself over to bypassing the mind, and reacting rather to emotions and "feeling," rather than thinking, it is difficult to make any inroads, but every serious attempt helps.

Addendum: The following information concerns DNA testing that disassociates the ancient Philistines from the modern Arabs now claiming to be Palestinian:

DNA showed ancient Philistines were European, and are unrelated to the Arab "Palestinians" of today who have tried to claim them as Ancestors.

A DNA discovery in Israel had implications for the political struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2016, archaeologists digging in Israel excavated a Philistine cemetery for the first time ever. In July, 2019, an extensive report on the DNA taken from the bones they uncovered confirmed the origins of the Philistines – one of the arch-enemies of the biblical Israelites.

"They demonstrated that the Philistines were immigrants to the region of Philistia,” according to the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon.

State-of-the-art DNA testing on the ancient Philistine bones showed they had European ancestry and migrated across the Mediterranean more than 3,000 years ago.

“In the thirteenth and twelfth-century empires collapsed, much of civilization collapsed. One of the groups that people noticed a hundred years later were the Philistines,” Master said, "DNA tests confirmed what they already believed."

“From the early 20th century people noticed that the styles of pottery they were finding in the area called ‘Philistia’ by the writers of the Hebrew Bible were similar to pottery found in Greece just a hundred years earlier and people started to draw the connection that perhaps this pottery indicated some connection between these two groups of people,” he said.

The coastal region known as Gaza was settled by the Philistines before becoming part of the territory apportioned to Judah (see map). Gaza, or Azza in Hebrew, was a city on the southern coastal plain of Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel, today Medinat Yisrael, or the modern nation State of Israel.

Ashkelon was one of five large Philistine cities. The Philistines lived there for about only about 600 years.

“The Philistines appear in the Hebrew Bible as one of the great enemies of the Israelites but where did they come from? In the Bible there’s a mention that the Philistines came from Caphtor. This is a mention in Amos many centuries after we think the Philistines arrive. This place was probably related to Crete,” Master said.

In Biblical times, God gave this Holy Land as an eternal covenant that can never be broken to the Children of Israel (the descendants of Jacob). Contested by Arabs, the deed of trust to Israel is documented in the Bible: Gaza was captured and conquered by the tribe of Judah: “Also Judah took Gaza with the regions thereof, and Ashkelon with the regions thereof, and Ekron with the region thereof.” (Judges 1:18), and it was included in the allotment to Judah’s tribe (see Joshua 15:47).

Here are a couple of other Scriptures that mention this troubled area on the coastline:

“The Philistines took [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza.” (Judges 16:21)

“[Hezekiah of Judah] smote the Philistines even unto Gaza …” (2 Kings. 18:8)

But if Palestinians were not always on the land as Islamic scholars allege, but were merely immigrants to the region from Europe, their claim to of “return” and their goal to expel Jews from modern-day Israel is baseless.

The cemetery, discovered in 2013, is dated from the 11th to the 8th century BC.

“How do we tell the story of the people who can’t speak for themselves, that haven’t left behind written texts? We can look at the scraps and the garbage that they’ve left behind, we can look at what other people said about them during the time period but the DNA actually gave us the opportunity to let these people speak for themselves,” said archaeologist Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections at Harvard Semitic Museum and one of the archaeologists at the Philistine cemetery.

Aja said the DNA showed that even though the Philistines kept their culture physically, genetically they eventually blended with the locals.

“But the discovery of the cemetery and the analysis of the bones definitively revealed that this population came from away and then slowly integrated into the local population.” Aja said.

The Philistines then disappeared during the 6th century BC when the biblical King Nebuchadnezzar conquered the region. He destroyed Ashkelon and other cities at the time shortly before the Judeans were exiled to Babylon as described in the Bible.

After Rome renamed to Palestine the conquered area previously ruled by the Jews, all residents of the area were referred to as Palestinians - Jews, and later Christians, and after 600 C.E - the Arabs.

Even during the 1940s, before Israel’s independence, Jews considered themselves Palestinians. It was not until 1948 and the war of independence, that Arabs in the area appropriated the name exclusively for themselves and created the myth of “Palestinian refugees” that lingers today in politics, the media and most importantly, Middle East peace plans.

The DNA revelations are a problem for many Arab leaders, but especially the terrorist groups of Hamas which controls modern-day Gaza. If Palestinians have no valid historical claim of always have lived in the land, why is the conflict between Jews and Palestinians allowed to continue at great cost?

That is the question many asked after these 2019 discoveries.