Moonwalking

                To celebrate the 48^th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk The Denver Post ran an editorial by Gregg Dobbs who happens to live in Evergreen, CO.  I didn’t google Greg’s career but I seem to remember him as a foreign war correspondent in Iraq or Afghanistan during W’s administration.

                If you saw the movie “Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot,” it might help explain why, after his experience as a war correspondent, Gregg chose to settle in Colorado where we are helping pioneer legal marijuana.

                In his editorial (and credit to the staff at DP for running it as an editorial instead of on the front page where they usually run opinion pieces) Dobbs asserts that America can no longer feel the pride it felt when Armstrong footprinted the moon dust because Donald Trump is President and the falling of the sky cannot be far behind.

                Obviously not everyone feels that way and Dobbs even graciously acknowledges that, citing a July 17, ABC poll showing Trump’s approval rating at 36% and calling anyone who doesn’t believe this is the “worst presidency ever” a bunch of “diehards in denial.”

                Well golly Gregger, if I didn’t know you for the flaming joke you are from previous opinion pieces I think my little diehard feelings would be hurt.

                Let me cite a January 17, ABC poll, three days before Trump was even sworn in as president, that had his approval rating at only 40%.  It kind of makes you wonder who voted for him in the 306-232 electoral college shellacking of Hillary Clinton.

                In that poll, according to Media Research Group, ABC only sampled 23% republicans. That did shame them to step their game up and this time include in their survey 23% republicans.  I did not commit a type-o. Still 23%.

                What result did they think they would get?

                As usual with the leftwing media, it makes what they “report” kind of hard to take seriously. If you only listen to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc., (I probably don’t want to know you) you may have missed the June 17 Rasmussen poll that had Trump at a 50% approval rating.  Of course, that is fake news because the left didn’t make it up.

                That same poll had the American public (both parties) claiming 61% confidence in the job Trump is doing with the economy, as opposed to only 42% in the last poll taken the previous October when Obama still mattered.

                So, one has to wonder, are the pollsters at ABC the same ones who predicted a landslide HRC victory in the presidential election? At one point they had her pegged as a landslide victor by 20 percentage points.

                Mr. Dobbs, tell me again which side it is you think is in denial?

                Dobb’s also asserts that American supremacy is slipping because so many national leaders are losing respect for President Trump.

 

                Well, I can’t presume to know what foreign leaders are actually thinking like Mr. Dobb’s can but we deplorable diehards are kind of happy to have a leader who is finally telling other world leader’s “no.” No we won’t continue to fund all the fun things they can think of that they’d like to have us pay for like NATO, NAFTA, a climate accord and hopefully the UN.

                Don’t let Maxine Waters convince you Spanky is going to kick us out of the gang because we don’t think it’s right we were the only ones paying for the clubhouse. We can still be a world leader; still defend our traditional western hemisphere allies from hostile threats (except maybe the internal ones they are bringing on themselves from Islam) and we have always been and will continue to be the world’s most generous nation to countries in times of disaster.

                We will also continue to lead most of the world in clean air standards (for real, not just in passing laws no one will be accountable for ‘til 2040) and environmental protection.  I still steadfastly believe that when a sustainable, practical, efficient and affordable energy source is developed that it will come from this country. That’s what we do.

                And did Dobb’s really mean we have less respect globally now than under Obama in his lead-from-behind approach to apologizing for having been born in America? (Well, maybe he was born here.)

                I cannot imagine we garnered much respect as a nation when Obama kept moving his “line in the sand” in Syria when they kept using chemical weapons. Who do you think had Syrian President Bashar al-Assad laughing harder, Obama when he kept moving said line around as Assad ignored him or Trump when he tore up Syria’s airbase with Tomahawk missiles the first time Assad used chemicals on President Trump’s watch?

                In fact, I’m trying to figure out whose respect we gained with Obama’s apologetic approach to foreign policy and such masterful moves as announcing the exact dates we would be pulling out of Iraq and/or Afghanistan (but only part of the way, it seems); for brilliantly negotiating a path for Iran to pursue a nuclear weapon; and for declaring Al-Qaeda dead and ISIS the JV of terrorism.

                If it weren’t so embarrassing it would be laughable.

                Part of what Gregg Dobbs is trying to do is what the entire leftwing media is trying to do—wear down the right with mostly imaginary tales of conservative loss of heart and will and support so that we stay home when it’s time to vote out the cowardly republicans currently taking up space in Washington and replace them with real conservatives. Don’t worry about it. The way you still feel is still the way most of us who voted for Trump feel plus many who have since seen the light.

                But a lot of what Dobbs is doing is sincere on his part.  He really is angry and feels bucket loads of hate and outrage for President Trump and, in fact, all things conservative.  It makes him furious that he has to share a planet, let alone a nation with us. Because he doesn’t get it. And if we are lucky the left will never get it.

                We aren’t as enamored with Donald Trump as they think, although every day I like him more and gain more and more respect for what he’s trying to do in spite of the obstruction and his own obvious blemishes. The reason Trump got the nomination and eventually won the Presidency isn’t because he’s Donald Trump. It’s because of all the candidates in the field he’s the only one who stood up and said “enough.”

                Enough of the loss of American identity and sense of exceptionalism. He advocated repealing and replacing that abomination of a health care bill (c’mon legislators, grow a pair). He was the only one who talked strongly about American jobs, tax cuts, secure borders, an undefeatable military, eliminating bureaucracy and over regulation, and no more governmental decisions that fail to put America first and make America great again.

                So I do believe Gregg Dobbs was very depressed about celebrating the anniversary of the day American exceptionalism put us on the moon. I do believe he hates me and all the rest of us who voted and won a presidential election for wanting things put right in this country.

                I felt a whole different feeling on “Neil Armstrong Day.” I felt pride and optimism and hope. And I hope you did too.

                Stay strong and quit listening to them. They’re goofy.

                (And no blog next week. Going on vacation again. Probably nothing will go on anyway...)