The first convention I attended was for Goldwater in 1964. The national convention was contested—Goldwater had not won a majority of delegates before the convention. Same drill in 1968 in Chicago, candidate Humphrey was chosen at the convention, as Gerald Ford was in 1976 over Reagan. Not coincidentally, the winners of these messily contested conventions all went on to lose in the general election.…
I live in Cooperstown and Winter Park, Florida, where I know both Democrats and Republicans. Biden/Harris are disliked by the Republicans because they don’t want the USA to look like San Francisco and be socialist.…
As a conservative, I have never been in full agreement with Democrats, but I previously respected the fact that they cared about our country. They just had different views of how the country should be led. Today, there is no meeting ground whatsoever and they will resort to all extremes, legal or not, to come out on top. If they can’t be stopped they will achieve a one-party system and freedom will be gone for good.…