Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the sixth Republican candidate to get into the race, in a crowded attempt to beat the current frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. So for today’s episode, a rerun of my conversation with Tim Scott from last summer. As you’ll hear, Scott’s approach is fundamentally different from many of his fellow republicans in that he’s the ultimate optimist. In part, that optimism comes from his own story. Scott’s grandfather picked cotton in the segregated south. He never learned to read or write. Within two generations, without money or connections, his grandson became a U.S. senator, and today, throws his hat in to become President of the United States.
I think a candidate like Tim Scott would be the perfect candidate to run against Biden. All those folks fleeing the Democratic party because of the party's lurch to the woke left need a candidate with a positive message, , an inclusive president. That candidate is Tim, not the controversial candidates like Trump and DeSantis. You actually want to win? run a self made man from a relatively poor background with a positive message who makes you feel good to be an American again. I realize there is more to a good president than that, but it got a former actor from California elected. Good things happen when you start with a person whose path is dictated by a clear moral compass.
I keep hearing that Sen..Scott is the only black Republican as if there are are many black Democrats in the Senate. Fact: There are only two black Democrats in the Senate.
"My God, the crowd: three-hundred souls, give or take, squeezed into this ballroom at the back of a flashing, neon hotel-casino extravaganza on the edge of the desert, eating rubbery chicken breasts stuffed with a yellowish cheese. They’re weathered, wrinkly, suntanned, and they wear ill-fitting blazers and ties and pleated pants. There are a few low-cut dresses, fading tattoos that droop just a bit around the ankles and wrists, and the occasional American-flag bandana stretched tight around a scraggly, Jesse Ventura visage.
They’re angry. They’re angry about crime and critical race theory and inflation and the death tax. But most of all they are angry about being left behind, and even though this is supposed to be a GOP-sponsored forum where candidates share ideas about how to make California livable again, it’s really all about candidates venting the rage that the crowd so obviously feels. "
This came from a 17 May 2022 column by Peter Savodnik - I just came across it and posted it here because I believe is could be useful for some us us to see how obnoxiously condesending we can be.
I think a candidate like Tim Scott would be the perfect candidate to run against Biden. All those folks fleeing the Democratic party because of the party's lurch to the woke left need a candidate with a positive message, , an inclusive president. That candidate is Tim, not the controversial candidates like Trump and DeSantis. You actually want to win? run a self made man from a relatively poor background with a positive message who makes you feel good to be an American again. I realize there is more to a good president than that, but it got a former actor from California elected. Good things happen when you start with a person whose path is dictated by a clear moral compass.
I keep hearing that Sen..Scott is the only black Republican as if there are are many black Democrats in the Senate. Fact: There are only two black Democrats in the Senate.
"My God, the crowd: three-hundred souls, give or take, squeezed into this ballroom at the back of a flashing, neon hotel-casino extravaganza on the edge of the desert, eating rubbery chicken breasts stuffed with a yellowish cheese. They’re weathered, wrinkly, suntanned, and they wear ill-fitting blazers and ties and pleated pants. There are a few low-cut dresses, fading tattoos that droop just a bit around the ankles and wrists, and the occasional American-flag bandana stretched tight around a scraggly, Jesse Ventura visage.
They’re angry. They’re angry about crime and critical race theory and inflation and the death tax. But most of all they are angry about being left behind, and even though this is supposed to be a GOP-sponsored forum where candidates share ideas about how to make California livable again, it’s really all about candidates venting the rage that the crowd so obviously feels. "
This came from a 17 May 2022 column by Peter Savodnik - I just came across it and posted it here because I believe is could be useful for some us us to see how obnoxiously condesending we can be.