To the editor:
How embarrassing. Ohio should change our primary election date to something earlier, at least in presidential election years. Not that it'd impact me this year, I'm a Democrat. We have the incumbency, so of course we're running the 80-year-old white guy again. But Republicans have a choice, but by the time the primary gets here, that will be gone and Republicans'll be running their 80-year-old white guy again.
And I'll vote for our blithering embarrassment in March and November because what other choice have I? But Republicans, what'll you do? Your blithering embarrassment's running with an absent spouse/anchor baby-mama while mocking a competitor whose spouse is absent because he's serving our country in the military.
Your B.E. is campaigning on how he alone can solve the border crisis (which isn't really a crisis) while simultaneously poison-pilling a bi-partisan border solution. Let me ask this: Trump had four years to fix the border crisis, promising a wall that would solve the issue once and for all. None of that wall has come down, yet apparently -- according to him -- the borders are "wide open." So, I must ask, why'd Trump leave the borders wide open?
Recently, a special council who was appointed for purely political reasons decided not to prosecute the current president (which I thought we already learned last admin they can't do anyway), yet he released a statement/political-hit-piece detailing why which employed the inanest "legal" argument I ever heard. Apparently, we can't prosecute old Joe Biden, not for lack of evidence (which there wasn't any,) but because he's too sympathetic, and has difficulty "remembering" long-past details. Democrats are frantically scrambling to disprove these assertions. I say lean into them.
Forty years ago, Republicans ran a sympathetic old white guy who couldn't remember squat in depositions. He was re-elected in a landslide. And that's not the only similarity. Four decades ago, we had a president who looked the other way as Israel disregarded international law in Palestine. Republicans adored him for it. Two-score years ago, we had a president who stood up to Russia and demanded the dismantling of walls, and Republicans ate it up. Two generations ago, our then-president reached across the aisle to work with the opposition party - Republicans call him the GOAT.
Frankly, these are reasons I wish we were running somebody else, but the Democrats in 2024 are hell-bent on being 1984 Republicans under our current leadership (albeit with better employment, lower inflation, higher GDP and a booming stock market. Not to mention more stable gas prices than Reagan - or Trump - ever saw.)
So, again, I ask my Republican friends, what're you going to do? You've been saddled with a person who has been found liable in a sexual assault case, a soon-to-be-convicted tax-evading, insurrection-instigating, military-disrespecting, NATO-snubbing liar who already once lost to a guy campaigning from his basement. Joe is out there shaking hands. Don't say you were cheated when he wins again. That'd just be -- well -- embarrassing.
J. David Core
Toronto