Time Passes For All Things . . . In The Meantime, Politics Is Always Ready To Keep Things Moving Along

By DEXTER DUGGAN

Pictures of Joe Biden with King Charles at Windsor Castle in July as Biden traveled to the NATO summit showed two white-haired men who had long waited to attain their positions as president and king, respectively — Biden because voters had kept rejecting him and Charles because his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, had lived so long and didn’t step aside for him to succeed her.
Elizabeth reigned as queen from early February 1952 until her death in early September 2022 at age 96, over 70 full years on the throne. Many people around the world were born, lived full lives, and died within the span of her queenship, which sometimes seemed would go on forever. And yet now, in July 2023, it already has been nearly a full year since she left this world.
The last photos of the queen showed her, apparently in good health for someone of her age, formally appointing the Conservative Party’s Liz Truss as UK prime minister. Ironically, the UK’s longest-serving queen thus appointed the shortest-serving prime minister. Truss would resign in less than two months, before October 2022 ended, because of a government policy crisis.
Those events seemed to sum up the uncertainty of politics. Even a queen who ruled for seven entire decades eventually left the scene. And a prime minister who wasn’t even born until Elizabeth had been queen for 23 years was quickly unseated by a turn of fate.
That’s a lesson about public service. And, parenthetically, should serve as a warning to the declining 80-year-old Joe Biden, who continues to live a life of unrepentant, flagrant mortal sin while few people expect him to survive for another 10 years. He should be down on his knees seeking forgiveness rather than because he stumbled and fell over again.
And yet politics goes on, as it must because someone has to fill government offices — although preferably not the ever-expanding, insatiable, disgustingly immoral kind of government that Biden’s Democratic Party represents — a party that is promoted, excused, and defended for its evils by the dominant media which admires them and thus fails in its duty of public service to convey accurate information.
The other major party, the Republicans, offers candidates who generally oppose the evils that the Democrats admire and extend. The Republicans, therefore, have a disadvantage in trying to reach the public because so-called information media abhor them and twist realities when the public tries to form judgments.
But the GOP has an advantage in that more voters favor its platform, if the voters aren’t lost in media labyrinths that cause confusion.
One of dominant media’s most sacred causes, as well as the Democrats’, is slaughtering countless defenseless infants. Most Republicans rightfully reject this barbarity while also knowing that dominant media will rip them apart with subterfuges and misinformation for not wanting to rip apart babies.
The two men currently considered the leaders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, 45th President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, both are proclaimed pro-lifers.
Trump actually was able to turn the tide on the U.S. Supreme Court’s lawless, unconstitutional pro-abortion stand dating to 1973 by appointing three pro-life justices to the High Court, while DeSantis attained wide popularity as Florida governor as he espoused traditionalist moral positions.
In light of a tone that DeSantis is faltering in the presidential race against an aggressive Trump, The Wanderer asked four sources for their views on how he’s doing. Two sources declined to comment.
Northern California conservative commentator Barbara Simpson foresees “an interesting race” for Republicans.
Simpson commented on July 11: “All the commotion about Ron DeSantis is just the usual pre-nomination campaigning that’s to be expected for any major political race, especially one for the president, and especially one that includes Donald Trump.
“Trump-haters are foaming at the mouth to see someone putting up a fight against him,” she said. “Trump-lovers will dig up any bit of ‘scandal’ they perceive (or create) to try to end opposition to him.
“Floridians love DeSantis as their governor and, from what I’ve read, indications are he would make a good president. Trump-lovers say the same about their man. It will be, as they say, an ‘interesting’ race,” Simpson said.
On July 11 Arizona conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard said he had just had “a remarkably good reception” spending the day “doing DeSantis stuff” in Yavapai County.
Yavapai County is directly north of Phoenix’s Maricopa County. Its county seat is Prescott, includes some of the famously scenic town of Sedona and, according to Wikipedia, has a total area of 8,128 square miles, which, it says, is about 93 percent the area of the state of New Jersey.
Another Yavapai County city is Prescott Valley, home to many former Californians. The largely rural county’s elevation ranges from 1,900 feet to just under 8,000 feet and, as of 2023, has an estimated population of nearly 244,000 people.
Querard mentioned the fact that no actual electoral contest has been held yet between Trump and DeSantis, so the “storyline” so far had been what polls say about candidate popularity.
“I’d suggest that the media wants Biden to win and therefore does not want DeSantis to be the GOP nominee,” Querard told The Wanderer. “The Democrats (and the media) want Trump to be the GOP nominee, so I’d expect wall-to-wall negative coverage of DeSantis, trying to talk him down and convince voters to ditch him.
“So what happens if he wins Iowa or New Hampshire and it turns out the entire storyline was manufactured and false? Another black eye for a deserving media, and a major national boost for DeSantis,” Querard said.
On June 26 DeSantis supporter Carolyn Leff posted at the Facebook page “Arizona for DeSantis” that she had an access problem with the Arizona Republican Party: “We have a huge problem right now in the Azgop. I am being shut out of a lot of groups because I am for DeSantis. We need to fight this. I thought the AZGOP was about freedom of speech and no censorship. Apparently, not!!!”
By mid-2022 there was an expectation that Trump would run for the 2024 nomination, along with other hopefuls, but DeSantis definitely wouldn’t be among them because he wanted to serve a second term as governor of the Sunshine State, which was on the ballot for November 2022.
The idea was that maybe Trump, or even Biden, would serve the one term remaining for either of them, then DeSantis, widely admired by conservatives, would be seasoned and ready for the 2028 presidential race.
However, not long after his strong reelection in Florida, DeSantis jumped into the 2024 presidential campaign. There may have been an expectation among DeSantis strategists that, given the opportunity, Republicans would flock to him because they’d be able to get Trump’s conservative policies without Trump’s blustering baggage.
But, according to the opinion polls and the turnout size for Trump’s rallies, many Republicans preferred to stick with Trump for another round. Whether strongly pro-Trump polls were accurate would be revealed once voters had the opportunity to being casting their ballots.
An article posted July 7 at The Hill political site began: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s weaker-than-expected campaign is prompting other Republicans, such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, to take a new look at running for president, GOP strategists say.
“These Republicans argue that DeSantis, long seen as the strongest potential challenger in a GOP primary to former President Trump, has failed to establish himself as the clear alternative,” the Hill article said.
National political commentator Brandon Weichert did an interview with conservative talk-radio host Seth Leibsohn on Phoenix-based KKNT (960 AM) on July 10. Weichert expressed disappointment in how DeSantis had done, commenting that he “comes across as scared, on everything,” with a staff mistakenly fixated on Twitter.
Weichert said the DeSantis campaign used to talk to him for advice, but no longer.
DeSantis is going to lose, given the amount of money he raised as contrasted with where he stands, Weichert said, comparing him to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the 2016 presidential campaign, cash-rich but vote-poor.
And, Weichert said, if the underperforming DeSantis loses now, he never can run for president again.

Cue Card In Hand

Meanwhile, there’s growing speculation that no matter how determined Joe Biden and his family are to keep him in the White House, a Democratic Party and its media allies spooked by his pathetic, confused appearance will find some way to remove him from a reelection race.
The British Daily Express newspaper posted on July 11 that when Biden met with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during his English stopover on the way to the NATO meeting, he once again embarrassingly had cue card in hand to remind him of basic facts.
On July 11 Weichert posted at the “1945” blog: “If the Bidens won’t leave the White House of their own accord, they will have to be so weakened by negative press that it is simply untenable for them to remain — lest they suffer the consequences of Hunter Biden’s crimes finally ensnaring the entire family.”
An article posted at The New York Sun on July 12 said: “Calls for President Biden to drop his re-election bid — or at least predictions that he might — are growing louder.
“Concerns about Mr. Biden’s age, his family dramas and possible corruption, and about Vice President Harris’ word-salad public statements and dismal approval rating were once the purview solely of right-wing press and GOP strategists. Now, they’ve gone mainstream,” the Sun article said.