Common sense above chaos
As we pass into Election Blitz 2024, the pundits have finally revealed that Republican voters face a conundrum of chaos with candidate Trump. Truly?
It’s no surprise that the verdict on Trump’s Jan. 6 insurrection indictment could be magically delayed until after the November election, which would “be unfair” to Republicans who claim they “won’t vote for Trump if he’s convicted.” The adult-in-the-room answer is simple. Trump doesn’t deserve your vote. Support candidates who do.
If common sense and a sense of honor are allowed to speak, anyone indicted of a federal offense (much less 91) must be barred from running for office and, if found guilty, permanently disqualified. Remember the pre-Trump past, when we held our elected public servants and candidates to a higher moral standard? Constitutional Amendment 14, Section 3, still does just that, barring from public office any official who has taken the oath of office and then engaged in insurrection. We’ve watched Trump do both.
In December, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that under this amendment, Trump is ineligible to run. Right then and there, common sense demanded that Trump be disqualified from the race. Instead, the sycophant GOP followed him to his next appeal rather than grab and withhold the one card that Trump covets most and least deserves: Get-Out-of-Jail-Free. Instead, the GOP sided against an electorate of Republican voters who are battling to disqualify Trump from the ballot; who dare to say that Trump is ineligible to deserve their vote. We must rely on common sense. Otherwise, we’ll continue to deal with self-serving, undeserving, dishonest candidates who waste our time, our energy, nd our vote. We must cut through the chaos and chicanery, rebuild our sense of common purpose, and move forward, together.
Lisa Kliger
Moscow
