A stalwart Republican citizen/activist wrote a good piece suggesting that the GOP is made up of people from all walks of life who share one thing: love for the U.S. Constitution. But you must put political parties aside. You believe the majority of all loyal Americans would claim they “love” The Constitution. Love’s a nice word. Unfortunately, it’s more than a touch ambiguous — the feel-good thing you would expect people to say to demonstrate their goodness. Unfortunately, the claim is only that. Because most Americans don’t genuinely know The Constitution. Don’t really know what it says. What it requires. What commandments it lays down. And most don’t truly believe it is a hallowed covenant. Nope. Love The Constitution? It’s all talk. It began with renowned chief justice John Marshall who did a lot of talking in 1801. Marshall was a superstar patriot but didn’t want the constitutional balance of powers, as it was written. The man was a Federalist, who in his self-appointed wisdom, decided that the Founders lacked proper vision to invest greater power in the Federal Government. Two hundred twenty two years later, the American people think their beloved country operates according to the four(4) pages of The Constitution displayed at the National Archives Museum, located at 701 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Nay, nay, pilgrim. That Constitution has been replaced by something called the Constitution Annotated — a 3000-page, 9.37-pound beast of a book — which is a legal analysis and interpretation of the original Constitution, based on a comprehensive review of the U. S. Supreme Court. In simple terms, Marshall and every  SCOTUS since has greatly expanded legislative and executive powers in direct violation of The Constitution, as it was originally ordained. The irony screams. You don’t need to recount the history. Who cares? The GOP? The DEMS? The RNC? Wake up, Matilda. That crowd — federal, state, county, city  — couldn’t care less about “limited government.” Recall this single fact — the 13 original States had one overarching fear above all others. They feared creating a Federal Government that would usurp the very power of the creation — power that could only lead to tyranny. Thousands died to rid themselves of King George’s rule only to hand it over to enemies within. That’s pretty incendiary language, dude. You’re talking about good people in Washington, in State Houses, in City Halls — even your friends and neighbors — all fighting the good fight — who deserve better treatment. Exactly. You have the arrogance and audacity to pass judgment on good people. Yes — elected officials and ordinary folks like yourself, who never admit they’re OK with the Fed running the whole show.  OK with governing doctors, OK with telling teachers what to teach, OK with regulating business, OK with controlling media, OK with hijacking America’s energy production. What else? How about everything else? Such as — OK with shutting down small business, OK with forcing vaccination, OK with banning life-saving drugs, OK with $30 trillion indebtedness, OK with sending billions to America’s enemies, OK with suppressing free speech — OK with flat killing people. You’re not alone in this judgment. Everywhere you turn — the brightest minds blow the bugles of discontent over Federal tyranny and those individuals who have committed crimes. But the evidence be damned — not one official walks the plank — not one — especially not the Big Guy. Meanwhile, the GOP holds hearings to embarrass feckless bureaucrats who arrogantly go on their merry bureaucratic ways — totally untouchable. Case in point — one Alejandro Mayorkas who rules over the DHS as the administrator of America’s fentanyl and illegal immigration traffic. You get the point all right — nothing gets done as long as the system is run by gangsters, including members of the GOP who  recite the oath of office and avow how much they love The Constitution.

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Many millions of lives have been transformed by the Internet. Nobody knows this fact better than NC Lieutenant Governor Mark Keith Robinson. Following the posting of his magnetic, spontaneous speech before the Greensboro(NC)City Council, the Internet blew up. And Robinson made headlines from coast to coast and from continent to continent. In America’s 247 year history, no Lt. Gov. candidate erupted onto the political scene with more recognition and prominence. Millions know his story. A child of poverty. Black American. Devout Christian. Imprisoned father. Self-reliant scrubwoman mother. High school debate winner, two colleges, history junkie. Numerous jobs. Veteran. Married, two children. Financial struggles. Personal struggles. Political target. For all the adulation sent his way, some conservative cries of discontent announce that Robinson has fallen short of high expectations. He refuses to check all the key conservative boxes. He doesn’t say abortion should be outlawed — period. He didn’t and doesn’t campaign against Medicaid expansion. He hasn’t called out Phil Berger’s (Senate President Pro Tempore) campaign to build gambling casinos, one of which would be in Berger’s own county (Rockingham). Allegedly, he fails to show up at pertinent meetings and events. In his personal life, he has been accused of stiffing a landlord, of being evicted more than once and of paying delinquent property taxes. Finally, there are accusations that he and his wife are beneficiaries of shady practices in the family business. You haven’t seen the word “crook” applied to Robinson yet but this onslaught resembles nothing less than a character assassination. Unfortunately, you can’t find a response from the Robinson camp. Until you do, you don’t know facts. Intuition does tell you that an all-out blitz of this kind reeks of a paid, organized hit job. But under the circumstances, Robinson should issue a clear  statement that deflects and disarms questions that would appear on the debate stage. You assume, of course, that he will not avoid that stage, and send the wrong signal. Voters rightly expect to hear more from Robinson as a gubernatorial candidate. Voters want candidates to reveal their priorities as Governor — specific priorities. Currently, while Robinson must fend-off the attack dogs, Democrat Governor Roy Cooper, as one of Joe Biden’s most loyal acolytes, revels under his leadership. While Mark Robinson must explain the personal accusations levied upon him, Cooper has no plan to ever explain his dictatorial and pernicious Covid policies — why he shut down small businesses, ruining thousands of lives — why he shut down schools, causing children irreparable harm for years to come — why he shut down churches — why he maliciously prohibited the use of proven early treatment drugs, depriving Covid patients of the right to save their lives — why he fostered the teaching of critical race theory in NC schools — why he vetoed voter ID legislation — or why he vetoed a bill banning abortion after the first trimester. Like his beloved boss Biden, attorney Cooper gets a free pass for doing far more damage to innocent people than the combined crimes of the state’s prison population. But he does — get a free pass, that is. Why, or how, does he escape public incrimination? Ask N.C.’s bootlicking Media.

Obviously, Robinson and Cooper have only one thing in common. Each is an elected official. Cooper has been a career politician for 35 years, ostensibly sacrificing himself to the cause of “public service,” as attorney general, state representative, state senator and Governor. Robinson’s political career spans all of three (3) turbulent years. Like Donald, he’s the proverbial outlier, meaning he better expect the Donald treatment. Meaning what? Meaning, N. C.’s establishment GOP will be chummy in public and play Judas in private. But, by now Mark knows the deal. Party politics is a dirty business, modeled after crime syndicates. As Lt. Gov., he has no real power, but does have 14 statutory duties and thus has the opportunity to at least exert his influence from the bully pulpit.

In the public interest, here are Robinson’s official duties:

1. Serve as president of the Senate.
2. Maintain an office in Raleigh.
3. Serve as gubernatorial successor.
4. Declare emergency if Governor unavailable.
5. Member, State Board of Community Colleges.
6. Vice-Chair, N.C. Capital Planning Commission.
7. Member, State Board of Education.
8. Member, N.C. Charter Schools Advisory Board.
9. Member, Domestic Violence Commission.
10.Member, Military Affairs Commission.
11.Chair, Energy Policy Council.
12.During an energy crisis, chair Legislative Committee on Energy  Crisis Management.
13.Appoint members to the Boxing Advisory Commission.
14.Appoint members of Community Corrections Advisory Board.

The primary season is here. As expected, quite a few candidates are ready to marginalize Robinson as being unqualified. You must ask — unqualified as administrator? As manager? As commander? As leader? You know this about him, captured in dozens of recordings. Mark is nothing less than having an exceptional mind and talent. His rise is unparalleled in politics because, in the minds and hearts of the people, he has articulated his unshakable belief in America’s founding principles and Her ideals. And because in a secular world, he believes in God. Everywhere you look, that simple resume is MIA.

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Just about everyone you know is quick to verbalize an opinion. Yourself included. Following the first GOP debate, most viewers immediately decide who should be invited back and who should get the axe. And almost always, no matter what happens later, these people will never change initial impressions. Self-pride doesn’t allow second thoughts. It’s a human weakness. Once the Pharisees decided Christ was a loser, nothing He did or said would temper their condemnation. Reasons for repudiation often have little to do with substance and more to do with instinct, inclination or some type of prejudice. In 1960, JFK was Hollywood pretty; Nixon was anything but, sporting five o’clock shadow. In any event, when the dust settles on any election, when corrupt presidents like Biden leave behind a trail of devastation, supporters can walk away from culpability, unstained and innocent. Their once outspoken opinions are gone with the wind, conveniently unrecorded. By contrast, published opinions nail you to the wall. You can’t hide . . . well, unless you’re a professional mouthpiece in media. Or unless you’re Greta Thunberg who continuously conjures up the apocalypse.

In 2023, or any year for that matter, you are not qualified to predict a presidential outcome. But you do have opinions for everyone to dismember at their leisure.

Donald John Trump
During the years 2015-2023, you put it on the line. You repeatedly said Trump would never be accepted, never be allowed at the Beltway table — that The Establishment would go to any lengths necessary to nullify his political existence and even his influence. Who is this Establishment? Certain members of the Supreme Court. The Democrat Party. The Republican Party. The Deep State bureaucracy. Legacy Media. Big Tech. Big money. Wall Street. Just about everyone who covets the accrual of money and power. Just about everyone who’s on the take. Donald Trump had (and has) only one asset: 80MM (arguably)citizens who voted for him. look at the evidence (from Late Latin evidentia “proof,” in classical Latin “distinction, vivid presentation, clearness”). In 2016-2019, under the withering barrage of baseless impeachment and other attacks, DT policy led America out of its economic stupor into unprecedented vitality — at home and abroad. The future glistened. This was the beginning of a political renaissance — to deregulate further, to dismantle the bureaucracy, to “drain the swamp.” But that agenda could not and would not be tolerated. The Left Machine saw to it by outright theft, while the GOP stood by as always — detached, in front of the cameras — devious, behind them. When Americans protested Jan. 6, Trump was branded an insurrectionist, and now stands indicted on a myriad of offenses, while he campaigns to be POTUS in 2024. In America’s history, no president — in fact, no Public Enemy #1 — has been the target of a more relentless seek and destroy mission. You must humbly request — imagine the motive, please. Can you?

2024
First things first. The Trump indictments are not aimed at jail time, although many haters pray for it. The indictments have two plausible goals: 1. Eliminate the Trump candidacy; 2. Create suspicion, demoralize and persuade Trump supporters to lose heart and choose a GOP “insider.” Already, many published pundits agree with the “alleged” voter sentiment. Trump and Biden should disappear. The nation needs to heal. That’s code language, Matilda, for “we’re tired of the constant war in Washington; we think Trump’s a lightning rod. If he runs, he will lose; if by some miracle he wins, the war will never end.” That last sentence is true but not complete. The war will never end until the Left continues to control America and completes its socialist agenda. If you think that agenda is dedicated to The Constitution and to your Freedom, at least have the willingness to honestly evaluate what has happened since 2020 — which is nothing less than a bloody catastrophe. More important, don’t make the mistake of thinking that deaths, lock-downs, mandates, the cost of living, the open border and Woke-ism are owned only by Democrats. The GOP is neck deep in corruption. House money claims that Trump can’t win against a credible Democrat candidate. House money claims that Trump 2020 voters — women and independents — have abandoned ship. You have only one option — wait and see.

GOP Debate #1
It stunk. The moderators stunk. You can’t assume they didn’t take orders and work from a prepared script that stunk. Whatever. If — and it’s a big if — Desantis would truly take his Florida hegemony to Washington, he makes the cut. If Vivek curbs his enthusiasm and keeps his powder dry, he’s the true outsider America needs. He makes the cut. In his absence, Trump makes the cut. Some of the rest — Pence, Haley, Hutchinson, Christie — are GOP veterans — and fit right in with the NRC and GOP Royalty. With them, nothing changes.

A New Beginning: One Naive View
1. The Federal Government — Executive and Congress — must cede all Domestic Governance to the States, as enumerated by the U.S. Constitution.

2. The SCOTUS must conduct a thorough review of the Annotated Constitution and methodically eliminate those legal findings that conflict with #1 above.

3. Impose term limits (12 years in both House and Senate)on all elected officials.

4. Mandate a balanced annual Federal budget.

5. Eliminate Federal Agencies that do not fall under provisions of The Constitution.

Ed. Note: If the day comes — tomorrow, next month or next year, when any of these opinions prove to be misguided, you pledge to quickly acknowledge your lack of scholarship and judgment.

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