You couldn’t be happier. No, that’s not strong enough. Jubilant. Yes, that comes closer to your level of euphoria. After all your whining about Republicans, after non-stop criticism of their cowardice, you gasped as leading GOP lawmakers found their courage and stood bravely to denounce The Man — the top guy — the autocrat they say has repeatedly demonstrated he’s unfit for office. Finally, the GOP is ferocious, unyielding and unified. And when they finish hammering Trump, the experience may actually give them the backbone to someday face off with Barak Obama. But don’t hold your breath. Instead, you might want to put aside opinions, theories and prejudices — and acknowledge the obvious. Clearly, every political insider opposes The Donald. Nearly every media pundit opposes The Donald. The Republican leadership, including Ryan, McConnell, the RNC and former GOP kingpins oppose The Donald. The White House called for him to step aside, suggesting that his Muslim talk disqualified him for public office. Other Democrats, including Clinton, gleefully followed suit. GOP presidential rivals converged on him like hyenas feeding on a wildebeest carcass. Trump’s long list of crimes can’t be ignored. He wants to build a wall on the Southern border. He wants to deport illegal aliens. He wants to suspend immigration of Syrian refugees, in particular, and Muslims, in general. He wants to defeat ISIS. he wants to strengthen America’s economic foreign policy. He wants to balance America’s budget. He wants to reduce the size of the Federal bureaucracy. He want to eliminate the national debt. He wants to revitalize the economy and “make America great again.” You may have missed something, but these seem to be his primary themes. Shame on him. Loretta Lynch may put him on her hit list for “hate speech.” Apparently, the entire Washington power structure, supported by Big Media, thinks Trump’s verbal crimes are more unacceptable than Hillary Clinton’s physical crimes. Apparently, it’s not OK for an American citizen to speak his mind, but it’s perfectly OK for the Secretary of State to abandon four Americans to die in Benghazi. Apparently, the Department of Justice, the Media and the Beltway have their eyes on Trump’s “hate speech,” but turn a blind eye to Clinton’s lawbreaking and national security violations. Apparently,  wrong talk disqualifies Trump, but committing a crime and violating her oath of office qualifies Clinton to be Commander In Chief. Apparently, the GOP suddenly has become red blooded in destroying The Donald; but in seven years of the Obama dictatorship, displayed a prodigious yellow streak in dealing with the person intent on destroying America. You must ask why. Trump didn’t take the national debt to 18.5 trillion. He didn’t give us Obamacare. He didn’t create ISIS. He didn’t invent illegal immigration. He didn’t weaken America’s military. He didn’t put 93 million Americans out of work. He didn’t put 50 million people on food stamps. He didn’t populate the Federal administration with an unprecedented number of Muslim bureaucrats. He didn’t expand crony capitalism. Trump did none of it. But Obama did. Clinton did. Representatives did. Senators did. The Supreme Court did. You must find it ironic — the people responsible for America’s decline are throwing the heaviest stones at someone who wasn’t even there. Donald, however, is guilty as charged for one unforgivable sin — throwing political correctness down the toilet and daring to spend his own money to seek public office. He must be loony. The Beltway Club simply won’t allow him anywhere near the WH. The American people be damned.

It was just a matter of time. Women who qualify will fight alongside men in the front lines of combat. Even at 81, Gloria Steinem must be doing back flips to see how famously American women are doing — from enjoying lifelong business careers to running for president and now for having the opportunity to urinate in field latrines alongside their male counterparts. Allegedly, the Marines conducted a study of coed fighting teams to conclude that these teams would be less effective than all male teams, and thus have opposed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s proclamation. Carter never served a day in the military but he’s a renowned thinker (Yale, Harvard, Oxford)and therefore feels equipped to know what’s best for the people who do. You’re persuaded that, in their opposition, the Marine panel must not have witnessed Demi Moore’s dogged portrayal of G.I. Jane — a performance that proves beyond doubt that women can wear the pants in any man’s combat outfit. You can’t imagine what worries the Marines. If women can satisfactorily pass the physical tests for strength, endurance, combat skill and toughness, they would be no different than the men. They would eat the same food and wear the same uniforms. They would do the same work for the same pay. They would kill the enemy at long distance or in hand-to-hand combat. They would carry the same gear and the same weapons. In a skirmish, if one of their brothers or sisters went down wounded, they single handedly would crawl under fire and use the “fireman’s carry” to bring him or her to safety. And since DADT policy was outlawed, females would not feel compelled to masquerade as males. That’s good news, isn’t it? They can be soldiers — and women — simultaneously. Much like members of the LGBT community who are now  openly soldiers — and homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders — simultaneously. Necessarily, with this new dictate, we must agree to  changes in some well-known terms. As an example, common sense would suggest that Band Of Brothers becomes Band of Brothers and Sisters, or Band of Brothers, Sisters and Others. Carter’s decree must assume that anyone and everyone is eligible for combat. If you happen to be hostile to the idea of women in combat, remember that combat-ready women already occupy important roles in law enforcement. Who can forget when Clarice Starling took down Jame Gumb (alias Buffalo Bill)in Silence of the Lambs? In real life, who doesn’t know that one Loretta Lynch is the top cop on the block? To be sure, Clarice, Loretta and city police officers aren’t confined to common quarters and forced to live together. To some doubters, the “living together” might pose a bit of an issue. Some might say that soldiers are men first. Some might say that men and women have only one thing in common and that one thing has nothing to do with attitudes, activities, feelings, etc. Ashton Carter has chosen to use the military as a social experiment. If lives were not at stake, you might give it a wink, a nod and a smirk. But you can be sure Steinem’s in her glory (no near pun intended). She spent her life furthering the cause of social justice. She has her wish, at least with respect to women, whose places are no longer in the home, but rather on the battlefield beside men. For their part, men have always wanted women beside them. But please. Not wearing  fatigues.

The problem with career public “servants” — and that includes almost every politician — is that they’re not as smart as business leaders. Especially business leaders who create and grow their own privately held businesses. You can also give a shout out to CEOs of publicly held companies because getting to the top of that ladder takes smarts, political savvy and a feel for intrigue, to be sure. But career politicians, like many of the current presidential candidates, have been playing in the messy governmental sandbox and they aren’t equipped either by experience or mindset to bring honest business solutions to a massive business that frankly is bleeding to death. Occasionally, you find a politician, like a Newt Gingrich, who straddles the private and public sector. You always had the opinion he was never “all in” during his run for the WH. Because as smart as he was, he curiously decided to wear Barbie on his arm at almost every public appearance. And if Callista wasn’t on his arm, she was in the audience and he never failed to extol her creative abilities as an owner of Gingrich Productions. You know it must have occurred to him that she might be more of a liability than an asset to his campaign. He is undeniably smart — some say, brilliant. Yet, he chose to push Callista to the forefront as he might a savant protege, with a kind of doting infatuation. Every woman voter in America saw the white coif and thought of the former spouse left behind. You therefore had to conclude that Newt was more interested in a business and bedroom life than a stint in the Oval Office. He couldn’t have been that dumb, could he? More recently, in a Fox News interview, Newt suggested that Barack H. Obama was living out a fantasy, that his actions were not as much ideological as they were delusional — an opinion that makes you wonder who’s delusional. Perhaps the politician in Newt Gingrich just can’t bring himself to state the obvious. Perhaps Newt  the businessman would. He might say that Obama, from the very  beginning, set out to dismantle America’s fundamental underpinnings; and has succeeded beyond his own expectations. You see, the politician must couch his words, avoid going out on a limb, avoid criticism, try to please most of the people most of the time. The politician never knows whom he might need, and when, to further his political ambitions. The businessman’s goals are not that arcane — he takes the necessary, pragmatic steps to assure his company makes a profit and perpetuates itself. Period. Mitt Romney was just such a businessman. But he became a politician — and he talked like a politician, walked like a politician and lost like a politician. Donald leads the polls for only one reason — he doesn’t behave like a politician. Cruz has traction because he says he hates political corruption and people believe him. Rubio is popular because he has good looks and smoothly articulates issues. Many people say they don’t like politicians. Is that true? You’ve heard some say that Democrats are in fact real people — and these real people will choose a real career politician in Hillary — possibly because they do admire the three qualities a Democrat politician must have — deceitfulness, corruptness and failure. Plus, at nearly 70, she likely won’t sully the Oval Office with oral sex. At least you hate to contemplate that event.  Who the American people choose as President comes down, after all,  to who the American people are. If the majority of voters truly depend on the Federal Government and want the Federal Government to manage their livelihoods and their lives, Hillary wins. If the majority sees the country and world in free fall, believes America is in decline and believes restoring America’s virtues is the pathway to prosperity for everyone, any Republican wins. Without question, the power brokers of both parties — and the media — want desperately to elect a politician. They will excoriate outsider candidates because outsiders always threaten the cushy Beltway Club.  America thought Obama was an outsider. He wasn’t. He said he would change America. Has he ever.