I copied the previous post, added the text from my four old columns and put them in a word doc to print out. It will take a few days work to clean up the big mistakes but I may not be too fussy with it. As a booklet it will probably come in between 20 and 30 pages depending on the text size and paper size. One of the walls of my office has a list of post-it notes under the heading of 50 page books. I’d have no difficulty putting that size booklet together on a dozen subjects but even 50 pages is a little daunting for some readers who are more inclined towards a tic tok video.
My first thought as I completed it is that it knocks Pete Stauber the least of my concerns but a primary one for anyone wanting to vote in the August Republican primary to dump Trump “pocket lint.” It makes clear my appreciation for the lost art of being loyal to Lincoln for which a “Party of Trump” is an oxymoron. And I think it offers a challenge other politicians can weigh about making the vile qualities of Trump and his betrayal of the needs of many of his supporters evident.
My impression of Pete is of a man over his head in a Congressional delegation of Republicans who think the Boston Tea Party was a drunken revelry (it wasn’t) and that the entertaining chaos of a WWF match is a suitable substitute for governing the most powerful but currently most hallucinatory nation on Earth.
Left for me is 1. making it an orderly text, proof reading, a front cover and instructions to readers on how can help the campaign of one of the few Republicans left in the party who is rational and potentially theatrical enough to disembowel the Presidential front runner. There ought to be a few people out there who would want to hop on my bus. Time will tell.
I am quite likely to proof read and edit this as it is short and a good introduction to my thinking about the coming attempt at redeeming the Republican Party of my Father and Grandfather.
BTW I just checked how long the previous blog post and rough draft took me to crank out. It was closer to an hour and a half than two hours……Its just that “two hour book” sounds punchier.
