Stormy Weather

                I really wanted to avoid doing a blog on the alleged Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels affair but when my wife caught me doing research on Stormy Daniels this week, well, I had little choice.

                Relax, that was a joke—she didn’t catch me.

                There is enough smoke around their alleged relationship that I would be surprised if there had not been an encounter between the porn star and the then billionaire playboy before he became the leader of the free world. And that’s disappointing.

                Not because a billionaire playboy isn’t free to rent a hooker or sleep with whomever he pleases but Trump was married to Melania at the time of the alleged affair and that does make it adultery and it’s hard to find much virtue in that. We’d probably all like to think we can hold our leaders and heroes to a higher standard than we might expect of the guy three cubicles down at the office but it doesn’t take a lot of internet research to trace a long tradition of presidential indiscretions in this nation’s history.

                Which doesn’t make it right. Not even a little bit. But somehow it seems to be something we accept.

                Most recently Bill Clinton set the bar extremely low, leaving semen stains on an intern in the Oval Office who was the same age as his daughter. Gross.

                Trust me, I am not holding him up as a reason to not look on Trump cheating on Melania as being wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right. Not ever. It is a favorite argument of the left’s but I’m not trying to use it here.

                What is as astounding, however, as it is frustrating to me is the blatant hypocrisy of the left screaming for Trump’s head (what else is new) over this when we were told of Clinton, “Hey, so the guy had sex with a young lady on the desk of the Oval Office, it’s the 90’s. Grow up.”

                Clinton lied about it. He obstructed justice. He was impeached. And the left laughed it off at worst and shrugged it off at best and we all went down the road. So take a deep breath liberals, if Clinton could get away with that then I’m pretty sure this isn’t going to be your silver bullet.

                I haven’t heard one mention of the $800,000 in hush money in the past two weeks that Clinton paid Paula Jones (a different conquest than the reference to Monica Lewinsky above) but have heard many discussions of the “legality” of the $130,000 a Trump representative paid Daniels to shut up and go away…which she had agreed to do. (Man, if you can’t trust a prostitute…)

                As it turns out, Daniels failed to report the $130,000 payment to the IRS who have a sudden interest in collecting part of that which would be more hilarious if Daniels were not suddenly making more money in the first quarter of this year than she did in the last three years according to one report. (Sorry to sound like CNN but I don’t feel like taking the time to source for you what I heard on the radio this week.)

                Daniels said in one of her several paid interviews the past couple of weeks that after the lone sexual encounter she had with Trump he asked her how much he owed her to which she replied, “I’m not that kind of girl.”  So some of the research I did reveals that she is indeed a way worse kind of girl and just because somebody makes a digital recording of it doesn’t make it art nor does it make Stormy an actual actress!

                It is kind of interesting though in that she seems to so naively admit that she and Trump had two altogether different ideas about what exactly was taking place in their alleged encounter.

                At the end of 2017—before the cash cow that 2018 is becoming for Daniels—her net worth was estimated at $2,000,000. Not bad for a gal who began her career as a stripper in Louisiana at the age of 17, near where she attended high school. Her name them was Stephanie Clifford. For the record after high school, Wikipedia lists her education as “unknown.” Huh.

                Her career then morphed into one as a porn “actress” when she was invited to participate in a lesbian scene by a friend who had brought her to a movie set in Los Angeles to watch a filming. A couple million bucks later she has a nice home in Forney, TX, drives an F-150, has a pit bull and is an accomplished equestrian. (See, I did some real research too.)

                A life-long Democrat, Daniels actually ran for a 2010 Louisiana  Republican Senate Seat. She dropped out before the election but some accounts say she had a legitimate shot at unseating the incumbent. She became a Republican when her exploratory commission—Draft Stormy—got the RNC to pay expenses for a fundraiser for her at a lesbian-themed bondage club in Los Angeles. Think about that the next time the RNC asks you to write them a check.

                Daniels said during one campaign speech that “If you don’t know who I am, I suggest you not Google it until you get home from work.”

                I don’t know why she dropped out. Something probably came up.

                I don’t blame the left for being angry and disappointed. Most of us on the right felt the same way about Clinton (the Bill one). Neither guy was right. Neither of them should get a pass and if that’s how they both feel about the institution of marriage and what it should mean then they are both disgusting human beings.

                And yet the exemplary loyalty and dedication to his marriage by Mike Pence is rewarded in the leftwing media with mocking derision on such liberal hard news shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live, The View and Anderson Cooper 360. But the left doesn’t even get what a punchline they have become.

                I do blame the left for being so hypocritical about it. One liberal friend told me that if I were willing to give Trump a pass on sleeping with Stormy Daniels and saying “grabbed her p***y” on a well-publicized video just because his presidency was a success that he wasn’t ever going to be able to speak to me again.

                Wow. Not that good of a friend, I guess.

                I don’t approve of a lot of Trump’s character flaws and idiosyncrasies but what the left didn’t get on November 8, 2016, they seem to still not get. Many of us who voted for Trump weren’t necessarily voting for the man. We were voting for an improved economy, tax cuts, secure borders, an undefeatable military, support of law enforcement, withdrawal from dumbass international agreements (that’s a technical term), a smaller, less intrusive Federal Government, deregulation, energy independence, a nonapologetic international presence, support of Israel and other allies, nonsupport of alleged allies who spit in our face, support for the Second Amendment, and a beginning to the end of corruption in Washington (which may be pure pie in the sky but we wanted it).

                And a lot of what we voted for was simply an outsider’s perspective in government because we have had more than enough of business-as-usual, power-brokering, lobbying Washington Establishment nonsense on both sides of the aisle. I think the whole nation wanted that part.

                If I’m wrong then someone explain to me the left’s fascination with Crazy Bernie Sanders who is an avowed socialist and political train wreck but he is without a doubt NOT business as usual.

                Anyway, good luck to Stormy. As she approaches 40 I’m glad she seems to have found a way to make a living with more of her clothes on. I just hope she remembers to report all that income to the IRS in the future.

                I may have to wait to post this until Monday. Not because it’s Easter Sunday and a discussion of porn stars and infidelity is kind of a bummer. My wife’s not home and it seems she did something to interrupt my internet connection before she left.

                Go figure.