The young black man in the holding cell next to mine had, like myself, been booked on a drug possession charge. We chatted while awaiting the breakfast we’d eat four hours later. “They done arrest me for possession,” he said, “but Ah knows me some peoples dat’s not even legally in dis country. Dem be livin’ right here in DC, and dey’s illegal. Ain’t no PO-leece arrestin’ dem suckas, while my po’ black a** be locked up.” He added, “dis ain’t right, I’m sayin. It ain’t fair, cuz I’se a CITIZEN.” The sentiments he expressed regarding selective enforcement of the law in Washington, D.C., in 2006, represent thinking which, if skillfully played, will help President Trump on Nov. 3. Leftists who infest the party of JFK and Harry Truman will have already sowed the seeds of Joe Biden’s defeat – IF the GOP plays its cards right.
The Trump/Biden race will be a clash of values unseen since 1860, when a little-known, Republican lawyer won with under 40 percent of the popular vote. While the result may be closer than some Republicans believe, the ‘America First’ nominee will prevail. Biden, a professional politician since Richard Nixon was President, is a male version of Hillary Clinton, but whose radical platform won’t resonate with enough low-income whites to snag 270 Electoral votes. In losing 44 states to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter condemned the Democratic party as “an albatross” around his neck. Biden, in co-opting many ludicrous proposals of Senators Warren and Sanders, will soon find out what Carter meant.
In the 10 presidential elections from 1980 to 2016, Democrats averaged only 20 states, while their GOP counterparts averaged 30. Even when Bill Clinton defeated President Bush in 1992, he garnered just 43 percent of the popular vote; in 1996, most voters, again, opposed him. In 2000, neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore won a majority of the popular vote; in 2016, Donald Trump lost the popular vote by two percent, but won 31 states worth 306 Electoral votes to Hillary’s 232. Trump can ignore 15 states, including New York, California and Illinois, and lose some states he won last time, and not flip any state Hillary carried, and STILL win. Unlike previous modern Republican presidential nominees, Mr. Trump is backed by a base largely comprised of blue-collar workers, including union members. Conversely, since becoming a US Senator 47 years ago, Biden has aligned with liberal elitists, who view him as a means of maintaining their power. While he’ll be the first white male Democratic presidential nominee in 16 years, Trump will, overwhelmingly, win the votes white men will cast, regardless of their party.
Biden will also learn, the hard way, that Trump has far more support among blacks, Hispanics, Gays, and Jews, than most Democrats now suspect. By advocating tax-funded health care for illegal aliens, and stating that illegals who are convicted of DWI shouldn’t be deported, and saying that law enforcement officers who enforce the law should be fired, Biden has signed onto a leftist agenda, which most likely voters will see as pro-perp and anti-American. Effectively, Democrats justify enforcing our laws against US citizens while tacitly advocating clemency for those whose presence on US soil is illicit. When I and the young man referenced above were incarcerated, Democrats and most Republicans largely avoided the issue of illegal immigration. But Donald Trump changed that. This fall, Trump’s tough, no-nonsense stances on illegal immigration, selective enforcement, law-and-order, and judges, will pay off, big time. Biden will learn that most Americans prefer ‘America First’ to what could be called, ‘Foreigners First’.
Todd Blodgett served on President Reagan’s White House staff and on the campaign staff of President George H.W. Bush. He also worked for the Republican National Committee and the FBI. Mr. Blodgett lives in Tyler, Texas and in Clear Lake, Iowa. He can be reached via his website: www.ToddBlodgett.US.
Mr. B, you have a real knack for getting these Liberals more upset than just about anybody.
We love to see you take the fight to these Democrats, who are really anti-American.
Long live Trump, go Trump, TRUMP in 2020!!! Hooray!!!
Mama, Democrats are not anti-American. You need to understand that this country’s founding fathers insisted that all people be heard and that any citizen can criticize or speak out against any other person as long as the speech does not violate the law. This is a free country and if you do not like the freedoms we are given, then perhaps it is you who is anti-American.
Great Op-Ed and so very, very true.
Next post will probably pee wee with the wee peter. BTW, comparing Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln is blasphemy.
says who?
This article is really good, specially like how the darky says to Mr Blodgett, sounds just like those people.
We lived in Waterloo before we moved here, so we know. Lot’s of them down there, thats just how they talk.
Some times at the grocery store, we almost had to ask for an interprater to know what they said.
@ Sylvia, congratulations. You are now in the lead for the title of “worst racist blogger” on this thread.
My late grandfather, who died 50 years ago at age 89, called african americans “darkies”. But even while he was alive, the term was out of date, and widely considered to be racist.
You are very ignorant, and definitely prejudiced.
Oh so I am racist am I, that is just what you say.
Well for your information we always buy aunt Jemima pancake mix, we play the Mill’s brothers on our hi-fi and also Nat King Cole. So there you go.
Put that in your pipe & smoke it.
@ Sylvia, if it wasn’t obvious that you are both old, and addled, I would guess you’re the one who is smoking something!
Excellent column.
Sigh. Another Todd Blodgett opinion which makes me wish the Quarry bar was open. His words drive me to drink, I swear! Unlike some others on this thread, I don’t think Blodgett is a racist, or that it’s racist to write what this black prisoner said in the manner in which he spoke.
What depresses me is that Blodgett’s analysis of the upcoming campaign is very likely spot-on. Biden will not be able to beat Trump, and for the very reason Blodgett predicts in this column.
Republicans like Trump, Ronnie Raygun, and Todd Blodgett, who learned his campaign trickery from Lee Atwater, have a kind of sixth sense at figuring out how to exploit low income, uneducated voters. Such schemers are bad for democracy, and for everyone but rich Republicans.
Ronnie Raygun and Lee Atwater are gone, but Trump and Blodgett are not. That means two down, and two to go. Nighty night, all.
“have a kind of sixth sense at figuring out how to exploit low income, uneducated voters.” That would be Billy Bob Clinton and Obummer. Hillary just couldn’t lower herself to do it.
The low income ( say the ones that live in the “ghetto” or section 8 housing) uneducated (never finished high school) voters, usually vote for the gimmee party, the Democrats.
No true-er words were ever posted, friend.
@ JD so your saying you want Blodgett dead, Trump to well how nice you are. Your sick JD should go to 5 east thats where you should of been for along time.
Have a grown up write your posts – and preferably a literate one.
like JD HA HA HA
at least he is literate.
Congrats, Todd, you have done it, again. Well played.
While I don’t doubt that this jail bird whose cell was next the one you occupied spoke precisely as you wrote, what was your real reason for using ebonics to quote him?
I think I know. You just love to flush out north Iowa’s racists, who either commend your nonsensical columns, and/or take offense at sound minded readers who call you out for being a conniving, manipulative propagandist.
I am curious: were you both busted for buying your fix from the same drug dealer? Or were you two stupid enough to purchase your cocaine from an undercover cop?
This inquiring mind would like to know.
Well, some things will never change, will they?
Todd Blodgett puts out a dog whistle Op Ed and his racist fans come out, in droves, to assure us gentle readers that they’re not racists, nor is Mr. Blodgett.
It’s beyond predictable, it’s actually disgusting. These pro-Trump blue collar bigots and racist rednecks lap up Blodgett’s bloviations like a thirsty dog attacking a big bowl of cool water.
Spare us from such inane drivel.
Ok you say Todd is racist, well how come I seen him up to LD’s awhile back, he was at a table with a big black man that cooks there.
I seen Todd and his friend Jimbo, they was at the same table with the Stitts boy, the cook, his daddy got shot here in Mason by a cop.
If you did know Todd you would know your full of shit. Get off this site, keep off it.
Hey, Darcy, is the “Jimbo” you are referring to by any chance Jim Burgess?
I have a true story for anyone that doubts Blodgett surrounds himself with thugs and has for many years. My cousin had good reasons to be pissed off at Blodgett, this was when they were at MCHS. So Blodgett accepts my cousin’s challenge to a fight, he agrees to meet up, after school was done for the day in the parking lot.
So there is my cousin, who would have beat the living tar out of Toddy Boy, and Jim Burgess shows up with him, along with a very tough drop-out who they called “Buddy”. Blodgett tells my cousin this rough kid will fight in his place.
Well, that fight never came off, on count of my cousin was afraid Toddy Boy’s “buddy” had a boot knife or some numb-chucks or who knows how many other weapons at the ready, just in case the fight did not go his way.
True story.
How can people vote for a Democrat party that are hypocrites and liars. The double standard is appalling. The fake news is in their pockets. If people don’t wake up this will be the downfall of this country and our children’s future.
Your cousin was a coward and a sissy. He picked on a smaller kid then wimped out when someone his size showed up. Just like you he was all mouth and no guts.
ISEA MC chapter officer, I see that you are that which you speak of.
big·ot
/ˈbiɡət/
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
“don’t let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city”
Good one, Mr. Blodgett, we say one of your very best.
Go TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, put him back in there, he is the best president in our lifetimes, and I am 73, the wife is 74.
PS We love how you tell about the black one, the way he talks. I use to work with some of them at Brick & Tile, that is exactly like they talk. They were dumb as a box of rocks too, no joking. And lazy.
@ Biden Warren your wrong, Todd is not no bigot, he knows my baby mama she is black, that make’s my little girl half black hey if Todd would of been a bigot then why did he sit with us out to the God fathers the pizza place a couple years ago.
While we was eating our pizza while he waits for his, he put’s our little girl on his lap we even got a picture of it, him and her on my baby mamas phone you bitch.
I bet you never, even met him so STFU just go away.
How dare Mr. Blodgett quote his fellow inmate, the black man, with this unpalatable jive-speak. The least he could have done is clean up the young man’s linguistic atrocities. When Blodgett quotes one of his many rednecky friends (and we all know he has plenty of those. After all, Toddy Boy is a trigger-happy gun nut), does he use hillbilly-speak in so doing?
Of course he does not. Educated people understand that the dialect Mr. Blodgett wrote, which is attributed to this put-upon african american, is called ubonics, and its inclusion is in very poor taste.
Of course, Toddy Boy’s fans will see nothing wrong with its inclusion in this trashy column, and many of these crypto fascists will probably find it amusing. But it is not funny. Not in the least, mind you.
It is racist, in and of itself, to quote african americans in their garbled style of speaking. It is difficult, enough, just to be black in Trump’s America, without them having to see insensitive bigots like Mr. Blodgett expose their deficiencies.
@ BidenWarren, I got news for you, that is just how they talk. I can tell you do not live around black people, well guess what I do.
And if you think they dont talk this way then come over my street, I will prove you wrong as hell.
Good article Mr B, we always like to see what you write, thank you.
I see that you,also, are that which you speak of.
big·ot
/ˈbiɡət/
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots
a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.
“don’t let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city”
Besides being a HUGE troll.
Hey, Biden/Warren2020: You can’t be for real. Your last paragraph has so much contradictory stupidity? Wow. Please post more. It’s entertaining!
Stupidity? What’s stupid about it, or contradictory?
I think I know what Biden-Warren was saying. She is a snob who calls Blodgett a racist, when the racist is her.
Blodgett never said the black man spoke in a garbled way, that was Biden-Warren. Blodgett is sympathetic to what the black guy told him, i.e., Americans are arrested and punished, while the law lets illegals roam free.
I agree, Biden-Warren is stupid. But like you said, it sure is entertaining.
here again to “stir the pot”
So how is it “stir the pot” he just wants you to think on this. If stuff like this makes people start to think then that is a good thing.
It’s a good thing to think, but not for the left wing liberal Democrats.
They don’t want people to think, if the people think, they won’t vote Democrat.