A Love Letter to the GOP

Life in the Boomer Lane is thinking that not all of you actually believe that immigrants are eating your pets. Not all of you believe that incarcerating all folks who sent contributions to the Democratic nominee for President is a good idea. Not all of you believe that raking your leaves or dampening the forest will prevent forest fires. There might even be some of you who do believe that Donald Trump is a seriously flawed, dangerous man. There might even be some of you who believe that the Trump-o-Meter is not only into the red range but the meter, itself, has begun to smoke. This letter is for those of you, especially all of you who say “I don’t like Trump, but I’m a Republican.”

If you believe that the GOP, the real and actual GOP, is the savior of the American people, then it’s up to you guys to save your party so that your party can go forward and save America. Makes sense, right? And the answer to saving your party would be to get rid of the party crasher who is now sucking the life out of your party.

Now there will be a cost to you, of course. And the cost is to vote him out. And that means more than Democrats have to do this. You might have to help. “But wait!” you are yelling. “If he is voted out, then we will have a Democratic administration and we will all go to hell!” If you are a Republican over the age of 22, you have already lived through a Democratic administration. LBL might be wrong, but she believes we are all (mostly) still above ground. And that’s because no one administration, since this great experiment in democracy has begun, has been able to single-handedly send us to the fire and brimstone below. Mostly, the country is one big pendulum that goes from left to right and right to left and doesn’t actually stop anywhere. LBL can assure you that if Kamala wins, you will survive. And you can use that time to bring the GOP, the real and true GOP, back to life.

If Trump wins, the same might hold true. But there’s a big difference here. If he wins, your party, the party you believe in, is most likely gone. Permantly. Or at least in your lifetime. So think about it. Ask yourself if it’s worth holding your nose and voting for Kamala, in order to get rid of the biggest obstacle to a true GOP. LBL suspects that all of the high-profile Rebublicans who have made that choice have done so for exactly that reason.

Because LBL feels close to you by writing this post, she will now tell you what’s in her heart. She wonders what will happen to all of you guys who live through a truly moderate administration that has some seriously good ideas about what will happen to this economy when we are committed to creating a powerful middle class as well as supporting small business as much as it does big business. She’s hoping that maybe one or two of you decide to stay in the Democratic party, at least for the time being.

But, putting that aside, she comes back to this: Consider voting for Kamela in order to save your party. If it doesn’t work out well for you, come back to this blog and throw epithets at LBL. You can even accuse her of eating your pets. She can take it.