In 1936, prior to German boxing champ Max Schmeling’s first fight with the up-and-coming Joe Louis, Max was watching a movie of Louis in the ring. “I sink I see somesing!” said the German. He noticed that Louis had a habit of lowering his left hand after a left jab.
That observation paid off big for Schmeling, who crashed across with a match-winning right-hand blow that rendered Louis unable to continue.
Now I “sink I see somesing” far more important than any boxing match.
I think I see a way for the Republicans to land a blow that will eviscerate the Democrats by causing massive defections in their ranks.
This bit of background explains why this idea chose me to connect with. I didn’t meet my first Republican until the age of 25! But that’s not amazing if you grew up in North Carolina in the era when Republicans were very rare.
The Democrats you met were fine, normal, wonderful people – salt of the earth, oregano of the universe. They worked hard, played fair, attended church, supported the Boy- and the Girl Scouts and the Red Cross, went uncomplainingly to fight in World Wars, aided the poor and obeyed laws. The men didn’t beat their wives and did not knowingly associate with those who did, and they lived praiseworthy lives keynoted by what we now call “traditional values.”
The lives of all those Democrats I grew up with were light-years away from today’s Schumerites and Pelosicrats.
Wars have been won when military intelligence learns the enemy is “weak around the middle.” That’s Step-1 in “divide-and-conquer.” They may never think of it. They may not realize it. They may want to slap you or slug you if you bring it up. But never mind that.
The majority of those who call themselves Democrats may not be Democrats at all!
There’s a chasm separating those who run the Democrat machinery and the Democrats I grew up with. That chasm is wide and tempting.
The Republicans should get busy and find a polite way to ask the millions of Democratic voters, “Are you sure you’re still a Democrat?”
The Republicans should then utilize the ways and means of letting most of them know they’re not!
Former Democratic presidents, like President John F. Kennedy, would not be allowed to speak at Democratic Conventions these days. Abortion! Contraceptives handed out to high school students! Government-run medicine! Fuhgeddaboudit!
Are you going to tell me there’s a similarity of political DNA linking today’s leading Democrats and the likes of Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson? Shake the tree of Democratic discontent and dodge all the nice falling fruit.
There’s no need for secrecy. Take the provable truths only – there’s no need to fabricate or exaggerate. Take those truths, put it all out there, spread it around and pound it home.
“Are you sure you’re still a Democrat?” is the question. Reagan gave us a good quote, namely, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me!” Then, using media, town halls, word of mouth, everything short of carrier pigeons, lay out, as comic Jimmy Durante used to say, “da conditions dat prevail!”
Hillary Clinton offers a nice contrast between the Democratic Party that once attracted them and today’s “conditions that prevail.” The leading Democrats today apparently hate Trump more than they love Americans. We’ve got every kind of falsification of government figures twisted to make the Obama crowd look not-so-bad. We’ve even got falsification of temperature data to make climate change seem more plausible. We’ve got Loretta Lynch and her sneaky airport visit with Bill Clinton. We’ve got Debbie Wasserman Schultz greasing the skids for Hillary who, without the cheating, may well have lost the Democratic nomination to a socialist independent.
We’ve got the attempted flood of Mideast refugees who could have been much better served by American support of “safe zones.” We’ve got hostility against Israel (the only democracy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean), plus Susan Ross, John Podesta’s emails alongside Hillary’s, rock-solid obstruction of all Trump initiatives, breathtaking quotes from the DNC team of Perez and Ellison. One of our talking points can be just one word – “Chicago”!
The Vietnam War could have ended much earlier if the arrogant “peace” movement in America, instead of denouncing those who joined them late, had taken the position of “Welcome, Brother”!
The GOP should praise the Democratic Party of old. And let this huge mass of “Democrats-by-Amnesia” know they’re not being attacked. They’re being reminded. The “Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again” Democratic Party has tectonically shifted. Maybe millions of you would be more comfortable as Republicans today.
This initiative needs no funding, no meetings, no RNC committee approval.
“Hey there, Brother. There’s a good possibility you belong with us!
“Are you sure you’re still a Democrat?”
Asking people if they’re sure they’re what they most likely are is not a static absurdity. It once was unthinkable to ask someone, “Are you sure you’re female?” No more! Rodney Dangerfield once said the most romantic thing a woman ever said to him in bed is “Are you sure you’re not a cop?”
It’s much nicer – and possibly nation-saving – to ask, “Are you sure you’re still a Democrat?”
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