If the most intelligent candidate became president, we would have had other people elected in the history of the United States of America.

One example of note to Kansans, Adlai Stevenson, who was considered one of the most intelligent men of his time, would have won in 1956, beating Dwight Eisenhower. An interesting observation about General Eisenhower and the success of America winning World War II follows. Eisenhower worked for General George Patton before the war. If I remember correctly, Patton graduated first in his class at West Point. General Marshall was the Chief of the Army and he and President Harry Truman selected Eisenhower to head the American and Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. That as history has recorded was the correct decision. But, what if they had selected the most intelligent man. Patton? We will never know but only General Patton did what he did as he won more territory in the shortest time ever recorded in military history leading the victory. Could Eisenhower have done what Patton accomplished? And what if Patton had been selected to manage the invasion? Somehow these two men ended up in the right jobs doing what each was capable of doing.

I mention the above only because it has a bearing on the 2016 presidential race. I wrote an article in March expressing my view that Sarah Palin should become our next President with David Clarke, the law and order expert, as Vice President. This week, my friend received a call from the Hillary campaign asking for money. But my friend wasn’t home, so I asked the woman calling to talk to me. This is the conversation of that call. Woman said,”Hillary has been around a long time and has done lots for the American people.” I asked her to name some things that Hillary has done for the American people. The woman said she couldn’t think of anything. I said Hillary was a U.S. Senator. The woman said yes. I then said but Hillary didn’t have any legislation that she sponsored. The woman agreed. Then I said Hillary was the Secretary of State responsible for the foreign policy of America. The woman said yes she was. Then I said the Middle East was in chaos under Hillary’s watch. Then the woman said, her family supports Hillary because it’s time for a woman in the White House. Then she hung up.

This appears to be the reality of Americans today. Honesty, integrity and character doesn’t seem to matter to a lot of Americans. It appears that Hillary has several scandals to overcome, but these scandals don’t seem to have any negative impact among Democrats. This article would be too long to go into details of the alleged scandals. The bottom line of Hillary’s campaign is she is a woman, and it’s time for a woman to become President.

Back to Sarah. Sarah Palin probably isn’t the most intelligent of the candidates presently running for president. In fact, she isn’t a candidate. But Sarah Palin was a successful governor. She had to resign because of the mass lawsuits against her by people that were trying to take her down. These lawsuits required her full-time. I think she won every lawsuit against her. But, Sarah is a true patriot that wants only what is best for America. She may be the only person in the country who can rally enough Americans to vote against Hillary. She is smart enough to select intelligent and experienced people to help her if elected President.

And David Clarke as Vice President has the respect of all races to return America back into a law and order society.

But strangely enough the unfounded attacks that were on Sarah Palin are happening against Donald Trump. The leadership of the Republican Party and many of the political commentators appear to downgrade Trump because he is an independent man who is not owned by big business and Wall Street and their lobbyists as many of his detractors are. The Republican Party is dominated by big business and Wall Street. For example, this latest trade agreement like the other previous trade agreements are for big business. Each of the previous trade agreements has closed American manufacturing plants and laid off millions of middle class workers. Those jobs went overseas. The American labor participation rate in 2015 is the same as it was in 1978. That means the same number of Americans are working today as in 1978, but America has grown almost by 80 million people. Donald Trump understands the problems in America. Donald Trump understands business. He also knows how to negotiate. Trump also knows the problems of the world and would more than any of the other candidates know how to solve them. I was pleased that Donald Trump mentioned something that I had written in one of my books on how to stop American corporations from sending American jobs overseas.

Think about this. Trump has gotten people to start talking about illegal immigration. But the Republican Party leadership including Jeb Bush doesn’t like to have the attention on it. Why? It appears that the GOP’s answer to illegal immigration is to encourage big business to build American manufacturing plants all over the world which will employ thousands of foreign workers at the expense of American workers. This is the reason for the trade agreements that the USA has implemented. The more foreign workers employed in American manufacturing plants overseas means less illegals entering the USA. Plus with the cheaper labor big business has made a ton of money.

The 2016 presidential election will come down to Hillary’s push “it’s time for a woman in the White house” versus the GOP candidate who survives the madness of almost 20 contenders beating up on each other. But one Republican candidate stands out NOW who is telling the TRUTH about how things are and how to fix the problems. That is Donald Trump. But his chances of winning the GOP nomination is doubtful because people like Karl Rove (who worked for George W. Bush) and others are digging into Trump’s past of over 20 years ago as he has changed some of his views, as has almost every candidate in the race. There is no perfect GOP candidate. The three most important issues in the 2016 presidential election are (1) the economy, a weak economy takes away from having a strong military, (2) foreign policy, the USA and the world is in disarray, and (3) immigration, without a secure border and lack of enforcement of laws anyone can enter into the United States.

The voters will decide the election. It will be between Hillary and the last GOP candidate still standing. The Republicans will have only a few short months after their convention to get the American people behind the survivor and that will be a difficult task. All Hillary has to do is campaign it’s time for a woman in the White House. The woman is a big favorite to win because the majority of voters don’t pay attention to the issues.

P.S. Every couple of years Republicans who are facing a re-election campaign find they have a backbone telling voters what they want to hear but once re-elected their party loyalty is stronger than their loyalty to their voters. But one U.S. Senator is worthy of our respect and support for speaking out against the power grabbing leaders of his party who continue to support a liberal agenda. Senator Ted Cruz is a rare politician who has earned our loyalty.

Roger H. Ewing
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