Palo-Negro-Blog: December 2023

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Chris Christie is at a Town Hall event. Someone is asking him a question. In a nice way, the questioner states that other Republican candidates (like Nikki Haley) are doing better in the polls than Christie is. Christie doesn't want Joe Biden to continue as President, but Christie also does not want Trump to be the next President. Why doesn't Christie get out of the way so that another candidate (like Nikki Haley) could beat Trump in the Republican primary?

Christie gives a lengthy answer about Trump's character flaws. He then criticizes Haley for not stating clearly that she would not be the Vice President in a second Trump administration.

But I thought that the most interesting part of Christie's answer had to do with polls. On the night of the general election in 2016, exit polls were conducted. These were not opinion polls held five weeks ahead of the election. These polls were conducted on the very night of the election. The poll results indicated that Hillary Clinton would be the next President and that both houses of Congress would be Democrat.

Of course, that is not what happened.

It is understandable that many people do not like Donald J. Trump as a person. But his analyses of various situations have been pretty good. And, when he was President, most of his policies were pretty good.

Whatever we think of him as a person, as President he did a pretty good job.

100 years ago, Prohibition was the law of the land. We all know what a spectacular success that was!

More recently, politicians declared War on Drugs. I am so glad to know that no one dies of drug overdoses anymore.

No doubt, passing more stringent gun control laws will solve our gun violence problems.

Hurrah!

The title doesn't really capture the content of this video. Near the beginning, Haley does talk about election integrity. But then she transitions into abortion and her reasons for supporting permitting the individual states to decide for themselves what restrictions should be in place.

The Jimmy Carter Administration made a big mistake when it failed to support the Shah of Iran. The world would be a better place if the Iranian revolution in 1978 had not succeeded.

This is not to say that the Shah was a great guy. But the Shah was a friend of the United States. He permitted US spy planes to fly near its border with the Soviet Union. And we certainly didn't have the terrorism coming out of Iran during the Shah's reign that we have had since.

Jimmy Carter was a nice guy, but he was a terrible President.