The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Updated

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse has updated Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic Paul Revere's Ride:

  

Listen my children and you shall hear

Of the consequence of a rational fear,

Through the days of October, in Twenty-Sixteen;

Hardly a man remains to be seen

Who remembers those famous days that year.

One man gave rise to corruptions’ removal

With steadfast admonishment despite their refusal

Held the Q-beam aloft and lighted their ruse

A billionaire walked in the average man’s shoes;

Elitists decried the demands to step down

As the rallies continued in village and town;

Admonished and more they were labeled deplorable

Yet the strong brilliant faces were simply adorable.

“How dare you to challenge”, snooty voices decried

Staying strong in the falsehood, retaining their lie;

Looming faces returned were both stoic and bold

“Is that all you have” the firm patriots told.

A weaponized congress, an unchecked regime

Continuing hard with their pillage and scheme;

“How dare you to challenge”, they shouted yet louder

Ignoring their place and their fate from dry powder,

“No longer your House”, their words seemed to scream

Forgetting their stewardship of America’s dream.

The horizon soon filled with a most monstrous sight,

A trumpeters call was heard all through the night.

Beyond scale, beyond scope, was the size of the crew

An unwashed arrival in plain well-worn shoe;

“Who can these folks be” the elitist’s decried,

These faces, these creatures, attacking our pride.

“Did you tell them their place is not ever near here?”

One well cultured leader remarkably sneered;

How dare they advance, this vulgarian team –

How dare they to challenge our most glorious scheme.

Yet advance they continued, the patriots all

Through the door, down the course and amid every hall;

“There are simply too many”, the palace guards fret,

Seeming silly not to notice the foregrounds Trump jet.

“Call to Ryan, or McConnell, Ms. Pelosi or Reid”,

These vulgarian hordes are dismounting their steed;

“We cannot let them stay”, a gulping voice muttered,

“Well then you tell them that”, a retreating voice stuttered.

As the voters then swarm through the well marbled halls,

The scope of indulgence leaves no-one enthralled;

Outrageous expenses turn stares into rage,

We’ve paid for a theater complete with a stage?

The silver adornments, mahogany desks,

the visual sense of comeuppance expressed.

How hoighty and arrogant the inhabitants became,

Oblivious all to the sense of their shame.

This grandiose mess is just why we are here,

Spending on foolishness, yet how you sneer.

Indeed you may spite us, and hate our appearance,

But our livelihood’s effort demands your adherence.

When you dismiss our values amid all your spending

You leave us no option, than to take over the mending.

When you contract our soil to the nations that hate,

It is our call to arms that controls our own fate.

When you sell out our efforts, then line your own pocket

We will move using recourse, and put your ass on the docket.

When you ignore us so much that you lie and you steal,

We will show up writ large and then force a repeal.

When your Jonathan Gruber can scheme with a grin,

Don’t blame us for arriving, that’s just where we begin.

If you think for a moment our resolve isn’t strong

Consider our leader, and you’ll know you are wrong.

Trump’s not the teleprompter tactician with prose,

He’s our glorious bastard who thinks on his toes.

Our leader may not be refined, or PC,

But for many of us, well, he’s just like me.

A man never wanting to run for these stakes,

Is exactly the type who can deal with these snakes.

We wouldn’t be here if you’d just done your jobs,

And stopped being a bunch of industrious snobs.

Your DC led schemes have our nation a mess

Embattled, worn out and fraught with distress.

Because of your efforts she’s tattered and torn,

One man has stood up to respond to the horn.

Donald Trump isn’t perfect, heck he’s far from that place,

But nobody else is as right in this race.

There’s another thing known about our candidate true,

It’s that none is more openly Red White and Blue.

He may not be the one who we needed before,

But Lord knows we need him – right now, even more.

~Sundance

# # #

Congratulations to the Chicago Cubs

art credit: Ms. Yackle's 5th Grade

But there is no joy in Mudville Cleveland . . .

Ohio Governor John Kasich votes for . . . John McCain

Branco cartoon via Walid Shoebat

Cleveland.com reports:

Gov. John Kasich, who had vowed not to vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, voted Monday by absentee ballot.

His choice? Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

. . .

The vote essentially is a symbolic gesture. Because McCain is not among the 18 certified write-in candidates in Ohio, Kasich's vote for president will not count.

Kasich ran unsuccessfully for this year's Republican nomination and made clear his concerns about Trump's rhetoric. He did not set foot inside Quicken Loans Arena during the GOP convention in Cleveland, despite being governor of the host state. He long hinted he would not be voting for Trump, even though he was among a crop of other GOP hopefuls who initially pledged to back the eventual nominee.

So much for Gov. Kasich's pledge. What a disgrace.

# # #

Hillary, Doug Schoen, and the FBI investigation(s)

photo credit: RT.com

Over the weekend, Democrat pundit Doug Schoen stunned TV viewers when he went wobbly on his support of Hillary Clinton. He's concerned about the fallout from the FBI investigation. From his follow-up column at The Hill:

However, in good conscience, and as a Democrat, I am actively doubting whether I can vote for the Secretary of State. I also want to make clear that I cannot vote for Donald Trump as his world view and mine are very different.

So, it would seem that Mr. Schoen will either vote third party or not vote for any presidential candidate. Either way, that’s more bad news for Mrs. Clinton.

On a related subject, Andrew McCarthy raised some interesting points concerning the FBI Director’s decision to re-open the email investigation. From PJ Media:

I have never been a fan of the notion – at the Justice Department, it is the received wisdom – that the election calendar should factor into criminal investigations.

Law-enforcement people will tell you that taking action too close to Election Day can affect the outcome of the vote; therefore, it should not be done because law enforcement is supposed to be apolitical. But of course, not taking action one would take but for the political timing is as political as it gets. To my mind, it is more political because the negatively affected candidate is denied any opportunity to rebut the law-enforcement action publicly.

The unavoidable fact of the matter is that, through no fault of law enforcement, investigations of political corruption are inherently political. Thus, I’ve always thought the best thing to do is bring the case when it’s ready, don’t bring it if it’s not ready, and don’t worry about the calendar any more than is required by the principle of avoiding the appearance of impropriety.

A problem arises, however, when you start bending other rules. FBI Director James Comey bent a few of them when he decided to (a) make a public recommendation against prosecution, (b) nevertheless make a public disclosure of the evidence amassed by the FBI, and (c) include a public announcement that the investigation was closed.

McCarthy had more to say about Director Comey’s decisions and his bending of the rules at NRO here.

It is fair enough to say that Director Comey should not have started down the wayward road of making public comments about pending investigations in which no charges have been filed. Such comments inexorably lead to the need to make more comments when new information arises. Not that the director needs advice from me, but at this point, he ought to announce that — just as in any other investigation — there will be no further public statements about the Clinton investigation unless and until charges are filed, which may never happen.

As for the election, Mrs. Clinton is under the cloud of suspicion not because of Comey but because of her own egregious misconduct. She had no right to know back in July whether the investigation was closed. She has no right to know it now. Like any other criminal suspect, she simply has to wait . . . and wonder . . . and worry.

There were other worthy Democrats, but the party chose to nominate the subject of a criminal investigation. That is the Democrats’ own recklessness; Jim Comey is not to blame. And if the American people are foolish enough to elect an arrantly corrupt and compromised subject of a criminal investigation as our president, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

Read the rest here.

# # #

Happy Halloween

 

Happy Halloween!

Trump, Hillary, Cubs, Indians

Indians are up 3-1 in the World Series. 

cartoon credit: The Cagle Post

Go Tribe!

Track your ballot! Make sure your vote counts.

art credit: NewsNowDC.com

If you have already mailed in your ballot, here’s another precaution you can take. I just found this on Gateway Pundit:

From a Trump supporter:

I am a single, Republican mother of two younger kids in small town Illinois. Within my friends, I keep seeing and hearing of all these examples of voter fraud going on right now with Trump supporters.

Three well-respected people within the same household in my town who mailed in their ballots in favor of Trump went online to make sure their votes were counted – only to find they were not going to be counted because the signatures on the ballot didn’t match those on their letter. They would have never seen this if they hadn’t gone online to verify!

How many others who have no thought to follow up on their vote are having the same thing happen to them?

Track your ballot and verify. Here’s the track-my-ballot link at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

# # #