May 19, 2019 Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor The Miami Herald RE: OOOPS! Your official biases are showing - Some comments on your Ron DeSantis profile in today’s Miami Herald.

May 19, 2019

Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor

The Miami Herald

RE: OOOPS! Your official biases are showing - Some comments on your Ron DeSantis profile in today’s Miami Herald.

Ms. Ancrum,

Pre-dawn “gotchas” are the best!

In your not to be confused with a profile of, let’s say, Obama, that perforce would stretch the envelope of both effusive and/or fulsome, and I still get them confused, you have someone named Rodriguez saying

“It didn’t seem to matter what the people wanted,” Rodriguez 

said. “It only mattered what the governor wanted.”

[A brief aside: Rodriguez seems to be one of the “good” lobbyists. She represents the Kumbaya section of the modern American Liberal chorus, the one that leads the chant for social justice, free beer, and cheaper rents. She is not one of those moneyed, venal special interests who abuse the First Amendment by bribing legislators and thwarting the will of the people. You know who I mean.]

Please tell Ms. Mahoney and Mr., Contorno, both earnest scribes, that this is the way the system works.

Who can forget President Obama, in February 2009, gently reminding some 100 Republican legislators that there was an election and that he won which means you lost, so there. Plus, not only is the ball mine but so is the court and if you don’t like it try the voting booth and that’s where I am “drawing a line in the sand”.

Take your time and explain the difference to me.

Slowly, please, because my deplorable mind-set is confused by TMI.

Kevin Smith

WARRIROBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – A teachable moment occurs a bit later on when John Morgan, Esq., obviously between cocktails, says “I’m disappointed because to me, it goes against democracy.”

The teachable moment has 2 sharp tines.

#1 – For 25 centuries, 2 and ½ millennia, our betters have warned us about the evils of Democracy. Star with Plato; sideline with Marcus Aurelius; listen to Edmund Burke; huddle with the Founding Fathers. And yes, there will be a test.

#2 – The people of Florida, and who cares whether hate and homophobia were the deciding factors, voted overwhelmingly against same-sex marriage. [I’ll run the risk of being thought to be a deplorable homophobe if I point out that nowhere and in no time has same-sex marriage ever been approved when presented to the voters.]

Was that the White Rabbit and Alice going down the modern American Liberal memory hole. You bethca. I probably should work Orwell into this but the alarm bell on my manatee traps just went off. Manatee sushi and cheap red wine! Just another example of White Privilege.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET