Trump’s Third State of the Union and Acquittal- Setting the Table for November’s Election
Setting aside for a moment the outlandishly immature and visceral behavior on the part of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and many of her fellow Democrats in the House and Senate, during and immediately following President Donald Trump’s third State of the Union address, the table has been set for November’s election in a way that remains unnoticed by the mainstream media.
That the President delivered one of the finest State of the Union speeches in the last half century- especially when one considers the political climate of the nation’s legislature in 2020, not to mention the fact that it was the evening before the Senate vote on his own impeachment- is almost beside the point.
This is not to take away the substantive achievements this President enumerated, for they are many and almost miraculous, given the overtly hostile opposition he has faced in all corners of the nation’s capital. From the still-seething members of the Democrat Party who still despise him for defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016, through the bloated and entrenched halls of the permanent deep state, to even members of his very own cabinet who have sought to tame the beast that they see in Donald Trump’s determination to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, the President has faced strident opposition from all quarters and most all of the mainstream media, too. Yet, in the midst of all of this, Trump has ticked off the checklist of the campaign promises he has made and kept, ever since he launched his campaign in June of 2015.
To a greater degree than any President in at least three generations, he has kept his word far more often than not. Even his harshest critics cannot accuse this President of subterfuge and secrecy when it comes to his true thoughts and feelings about any issue. When Trump says something, it is a consummate and honest reflection of what the man truly thinks. Fault him though they might, no one can accuse Donald Trump of misleading rhetoric. This was reflected in last night’s State of the Union address, just as he has in his last two SOTU addresses to joint sessions of Congress. In no misleading and uncertain terms, he has told the American people where we were prior to his presidency, what he has achieved in the three years of his being in the White House, and has outlined a vision of what he seeks to do in the remainder of this term, as well as his next. President Trump’s is a stunning record of accomplishment in the face of almost universal opposition has ensured that no Democrat, running or not, has the goods to defeat him this fall- none, period.
Insanely jealous of the fact that Donald Trump has achieved far more than he would have ever achieved, had he prevailed in his own campaign(s) to be President, Senator Mitt Romney (R-NV) pulled out his demonic dagger and has thus stabbed the President in the back, by joining with Democrats to vote to convict the President in the most partisan and divisive impeachment in U.S. history. Romney is essentially a rat bastard who has been on a teeter-totter of two-faced dealings with the President, for years. In 2012, Romney sucked up to Trump seeking contributions to the Mitt’s failed presidential campaign. Then, after Trump’s campaign launch three years later, Romney delivered a despicable and slanderous diatribe on national television, excoriating Trump in vicious and venal attacks on Trump’s character. Once Trump was elected President, Romney slovenly courted Trump’s selection to be Secretary of State, thinking he could play Trump for a fool on the international stage. Failing that, he ran for a Senate seat vowing to take the place of Anti-Trump/NeverTrump Republican Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ)- two men who behaved like the Western Diamondback rattlesnakes so prevalently found in the Grand Canyon State they both represented. McCain is dead, and Flake is quickly fading away into irrelevance- just like Romney will do, once Utah voters replace him in 2024. In fact, there are already calls in Salt Lake City to amend the state’s constitution allowing the recall of an elected U.S. Senator, because of Romney’s repeated treachery when it comes to how he has treated the duly elected President of his own party.
Look for the national media to praise his “courage” – yeah, right.
“Mittens” didn’t have the courage to challenge Barack Obama and debate-moderator Candy Crowley in 2012, when they teamed up against him on his assertion that the Obama administration lied about the impetus that led to four Americans being slain in Benghazi, that same year. Same for the so-called “courage” of Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) who just had to go out of their way to slam the President, even though they announced their intention to acquit him, along with the remainder of Senate Republicans. Anyone who thought that Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) would oppose his party on impeachment, is naïve enough to think that Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) might have also done so. Jones’ announcement to vote for conviction surprised no one with any brains and ensured his ouster when he comes up his own re-election this fall. Watch for both of them to call for “bipartisanship,” along with other so-called “moderate” Democrats- the same Democrats who still voted to remove the President.
Juxtapose all of this to how inauspiciously and hatefully Democrat legislators behaved on the one night they are supposed to set aside rank partisanship and respect the institutions of our republic. Their intransigence was displayed for the entire country to witness first hand and the leader of their party, Pelosi, iced their corrupt and corrosive cake when she demonstrably tore up the official copy of the president’s address- technically a crime because the law proscribes the destruction of official documents, like a Constitutionally-mandated annual State of the Union.
No matter.
While the stupid and petulant House Speaker thought she would help the candidacy of former Vice-President Joe Biden (D-DE), by dragging out the delivery of impeachment articles for more than a month, following the rush to impeach the President in the House, her efforts failed miserably. By doing so, she effectively albeit unintentionally caused Biden’s overt corruption during his term in office to come to the forefront for all to see. His entire candidacy has crashed on the rocks of his own party’s impeachment effort, and Democrat voters know it- hence his poor performance in the Iowa caucus.
So, the table has been set for President Donald Trump’s re-election, thanks to his own performance last night, and throughout his three years as President. Thanks to the behavior of Democrats during the last three years- not to mention the churlish and childish behavior displayed before a national audience last night- they themselves have set the table for their own defeat in this fall’s election. Republicans will keep the Senate and flip the House, all the while riding on the coattails of the most highly regarded (in their own party) Republican President in United States history.
Once again…advantage Trump.
-Drew Nickell, 5 February 2020
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