I’ve attended a couple of half dozen nationwide conventions, Republican and Democratic, and seen at the very least a dozen extra. And I can say two issues: 1) All of them usually annoy me. 2) No 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference. The RNC not solely holds my curiosity, it usually makes me emotional.
When you’re not moved to tears by the households of troopers killed in Afghanistan throughout our preventable deadly withdrawal, you are way more callous than I’m. When you weren’t deeply moved by the viewers’s tribute to former President Donald Trump and Cory Comparator, the firefighter killed at a Trump rally when he threw his physique over his spouse and daughter to guard them, once more, you are made from more durable stuff than I’m.
I used to be so moved by the cheers at any time when Israel was talked about. Nothing represents the ethical distinction between the 2 teams higher than their views on Israel. Certainly, it is going to be fascinating to see if Israel is talked about positively even as soon as on the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
However each Trump and the Republican Get together made an enormous mistake — a mistake I discussed on my radio present throughout the conference and have talked about for many years.
Nearly all conference audio system centered their consideration on President Joe Biden. The viewers did the identical, when it chanted, “Joe should go.”
For many years, I’ve urged candidates for Republican workplace to focus their assaults on the Democratic Get together and the left at the very least as a lot as on their opponents.
Not doing so on the convention got here again to chew them — simply three days later. Now, “Joe went.” So, on a regular basis and energy dedicated to attacking Biden was fully wasted.
I’ve by no means understood why Republicans focus their fireplace on their Democratic opponents whereas ignoring nearly any point out of the menace posed by the Democratic Get together and the Left.
When the variations between Republicans and Democrats have been a lot much less profound than they’re now, it might need made sense for Republican candidates to focus their consideration on their opponents. In 1952 and 1956, when Republican Dwight Eisenhower ran for president towards Democrat Adlai Stevenson and the Democratic Get together didn’t pose an existential menace to America, it made sense for Eisenhower and the Republican Get together to give attention to Stevenson’s alleged deficits and Eisenhower’s alleged bhartu.
However at the very least because the Nineteen Sixties, this strategy has made no sense.
The explanation “Joe has to go” shouldn’t be as a result of Joe is a person of flawed character (though he’s) or due to his horrible ideas. The explanation Biden is doing a lot injury to America is not as a result of he is Joe Biden, it is as a result of he is a Democrat. And the Democratic Get together has been taken over by the left, which, opposite to conventional liberalism, is destroying all the pieces that’s good and particular about our nation.
What Democrat is working for president – or governor or senator or consultant – is totally irrelevant. Nonetheless lovely they could be in particular person, so far as ideas and values are involved, they’re virtually equivalent. How does Vice President Kamala Harris differ from Joe Biden in coverage and philosophy? How are Gavin Newsom, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer or Pete Buttigieg totally different? Or for that matter, how totally different is the liberal, however left-leaning governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro (who could possibly be the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, since he comes from a politically essential state)?
To quote one instance, Shapiro usually spoke in help of college alternative, after which he and his Democratic Get together killed a invoice supporting college scholarships (Pennsylvania makes use of the time period for vouchers) for Pennsylvania’s poorest youngsters. RealClearPolitics reported 5 days in the past:
“Final 12 months, Shapiro failed our most weak youngsters by vetoing his promise to enact Lifeline Scholarships, which might have saved hundreds of youngsters trapped in failing and unsafe colleges. This 12 months, the governor has as soon as once more betrayed his phrase.
“For 12 months, he has known as these scholarships ‘unfinished enterprise.’ And but the governor buckled beneath stress from his social gathering and lecturers unions. Regardless of bipartisan help within the Pennsylvania Senate, each Democrat within the Home voted towards the Lifeline scholarships with one phrase towards the governor.”
Regardless of overwhelming help for college alternative in Pennsylvania, Shapiro sided with maybe America’s most damaging left-wing establishment, the lecturers union.
As famous within the RealClearPolitics article: “New polling exhibits 75% of Pennsylvanians nonetheless help Lifeline scholarships, together with 87% and 88% of black and Hispanic voters, respectively. If solely Shapiro would stand with them.”
In different phrases, a Democrat working for workplace does not imply a rattling factor. What issues is that she or he is a democrat. The issue of leftist events.
It needed to go that Joe did. He is gone now. And it does not make a little bit of distinction.
“Harmful, harmful Democratic Get together should go.” It must be — and must be for many years — the message of each Republican candidate for each workplace within the land.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth quantity of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the primary 5 books of the Bible, will likely be revealed in November 2024 and is now accessible for presale on Amazon. He’s the co-founder of Prager College and will be contacted at dennisprager.com.
