You've Got to Be Kidding?

With a video message and a fake quote from Winston Churchill that actually turned out to be a line from a 1930s Budweiser beer ad campaign, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Elon Musk’s far-right social media platform “X” by quoting, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”   DeSantis concluded by stating, “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance,” and he closed by giving Trump his full endorsement. So, DeSantis bowed out of the race by quoting an old Budweiser beer ad ?   Now, I don’t like to sound critical, but about the only person I can think of who would be impressed by an old Budweiser ad - would be Justice Brett Kavanaugh.   We all know Kavanaugh’s a guy who really likes his beer.   Ironically, DeSantis’ primary super PAC was actually named “Never Back Down.”   Better modify that to,   “We won’t bac...

After months of struggling to raise money and gain traction in the polls, former Vice President Mike Pence, who began his campaign by implying it was “God’s Will” that he should run for President of the United States, dropped his bid for the Republican presidential nomination by stating “This is not my time.” Dammit!  and I just bought my Pence bumper sticker too!   That said, Mike - I think you’re right.   This isn’t you’re time.   In fact, I’m pretty sure your time may have passed somewhere around the mid to late 1950s.   Yet, at his Las Vegas announcement, Pence told supporters that with regard to his failed campaign, he “Has no regrets.”   Oh, I’m quite sure he has "no regrets," other than the fact that almost no one in the entire country ever had any intention whatsoever of voting for him. Well, as Mike and “Mother’s” Good Book might say - “And thus so endeth - the campaign of Mike Pence.”   The funny thing is, for a candidate supposedly so heavi...