Depending on who you talk to this is number 90 in a long string of legal defeats for Trump and his desperate attempt to overturn the election.  As legal arguments go, this has to be the most spurious and is, without a doubt, the most dangerous.

The yahoo from Texas, Louis Gohmert (pronounced “Gomer” as in Gomer Pyle but with a “t” on the end) filed a suit alleging Pence has extraordinary powers to shred votes for President.   According to Gohmert. Pence has the power to pick the next President!

Now I am not a constitutional scholar but I can read.  The 12th Amendment to the Constitution says:

“The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President…”

The “votes” to be counted are those of the 538 electors in the Electoral College not the popular vote.  The “President of the Senate” is the Vice Presi...

In the final hours of his reign Emperor Trump and his scorched earth squad of shysters and sycophants is looking to Pence to save the day.  The Washington Post explains how this hail mary works.

Somewhat disingenuously the opinion piece appeals to Pence to choose truth over Trump and right the wrongs he had a hand in inflicting these past four years.

A slavish willingness to massage Trump’s ego at the expense of the American people has defined Pence from day one.

At its best it is woefully (and willfully) naive and at its worse an exercise in sophistry to even entertain that Pence will find the conscience or the courage in this eleventh hour to serve our country with honor.  Flexible, if not nonexistent, morals, a callous disregard for the rule of law, a fanatical belief in your own infallibility and zero patriotism were prerequisites for his position.  A slavish willingness to massage Trump’s ego at the expense of the American people has defined Pence from...

WaPo and other main stream media outlets reported Trump tested positive for CoVID.

Trump doesn’t have CoVID.

Main stream media ogoes once again to the well to fetch Trump yet another bucket full of benefit of the doubt.  Why would they believe Trump when he says he tested positive? Because he would not tell such a risky lie?  Because he does not lie?  Ask yourself what does he have to gain from the lie versus what he has to lose if it’s discovered this is an orchestrated lie.

Cons:  Trump is exposed as a liar to people who already know  he is a serial liar. His base won’t be bothered by the lie.  They will just point to it as more evidence of how smart their guy is.  

Pro’s:  Testing positive for CoVID gives Trump a reason to skip more debates. It gets the spotlight off of his taxes and his proud boys comment.  It provides an excuse for his horrid debate performance (he was sick). It  will gain him some early voting sympathy votes.  It lets him or a proxy float delaying the ele...

Since Woodward’s expose Rage and The Atlantic report that Trump called our fallen and injured soldiers suckers and losers, there’s a new strategy in play among the more literate of Trump’s supporters.  I call this strategy revisionist apologetics.  Here’s the latest example courtesy of a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.

The new strategy has two elements.  First, acknowledge Trump’s deficiencies but cast them as character flaws/personality defects.   Trump’s racism, fascism, greed, amorality, etc. are troubling but not disqualifying flaws.  For example, serial lying  is recast as a propensity for exaggeration or hyperbole.

Having tried many different ways to attack Biden, the Trump machine has apparently decided on Biden as Bolshevik.

Second, argue that as worrisome as Trump’s flaws are, Biden‘s are or will be infinitely worse.  Fear a Biden presidency because he is a leftist who will destroy our nation if elected.  Their fear mongering and race baiting paint a picture of...