Missing death by one inch can change a man. From Philip Wegmann at realclearwire.com:
MILWAUKEE — Republicans always seem to come home. Some sooner than others.
Vivek Ramaswamy never really ran against him. Ron DeSantis threw his weight behind him within an hour of dropping out of the primary. But Nikki Haley, the last woman standing, she took her time. The endorsement took three full months to arrive. Donald Trump didn’t mind.
The former president did not need her support to lock down a third consecutive nomination. He may not need it to return to the White House either. But as Haley walked onstage at the Republican National Convention Tuesday, Trump beamed. He listened with a bandaged ear from a box overlooking the arena to his last rival, the member of his cabinet who went astray, bending the knee in prime time.
“If there is one thing Donald Trump loves more than a Day One supporter,” Hogan Gidley, who served as a Trump White House aide, told RealClearPolitics, “it is a convert.”
Yet, if there is one thing Trump has notably not done this week, it is gloat. He has said comparatively little since the attempt on his life Saturday, exuding a gracious silence – perhaps even a magnanimous stoicism. A source who spoke with the former president at length the day after he dodged an assassin’s bullet reported talking to “a different Donald Trump, but in the best way possible.”
Granted anonymity to speak freely, this individual, who has worked closely with Trump for nearly a decade, described a “weirdly counterintuitive” phenomenon whereby “he almost dies, he miraculously survives, and it becomes even less about him.”
Perhaps that explains the last-minute invitation to Nikki Haley. She was not originally slated to speak at the RNC, but after the assassination attempt, the Trump campaign asked her to come speak. It was simultaneously an attempt at party and national unity, an overture made more remarkable considering the sheer bitterness of their rivalry. Remember the birdcage? Trump had one delivered to her hotel room the day after dubbing her “Birdbrain.” It only got worse from that moment on. Haley had been the rare member of the Trump administration to leave the White House on good terms with the former president – and with her reputation intact. Her decision to challenge him was, therefore, seen by Trump and his loyalists as nothing short of a betrayal. And Trump held nothing back.
Seeing the Reaper in the rearview will make you focus like nothing else, it even lights a fire under your ass.
You can joke with ol’ Skeletor but only the Hand Of God makes him run.
[Thank You God]
Saw a dank cartoon of a woman showing her funbags to Trump and he is looking as the bullet zips past.
Updates say the Antifa patsy made a post about July 13 being the big unveiling.
All of this will keep the drooling Derp State DEI derelicts in whack-a-mole mode and we might catch a break…for a few minutes.
BTW-Did you see who wasn’t in attendance?
Some big name magic underwear taco bowls of love kindergarten J6 kabuki theater Obama’s beards of the Grand Old Politburo.
A dank meme is out there.
Don’t come back now, ya hear, quisling traitors.