The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, Aug. 11

Can anyone really have comfort in voting for a candidate who cannot go unscripted? A certain level of comfort on important topics should be a requirement of anyone filling the highest position in the US government. Can we really afford a leader who resorts to laughing and stammering about what to say when they are uncomfortable with answering questions? Can we really trust someone to lead the nation that isn’t willing to do live interviews?

Major Gen. Geoffrey Higginbotham recently wrote about the national security threat Kamala Harris poses as a follower of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Chinese Communist ideology. If the FBI had done a background check on Harris, she never would have passed the test with ties to her Marxist Communist father a professor at Stanford Univ. Her husband Doug Emhoff just took a Yale appointment to teach law students on the finer points of Communism.

Dr. Jimbo

Have you noticed? All quiet in the news about climate change. I guess no hurricanes will do that, but it looks like a hurricane may be on the way. So Kamala Harris is likely to use the hurricane to push her climate change agenda. So be prepared for the onslaught of climate change propaganda for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Realist

Did Joe bring all of those people over from Afghanistan yet? Or did the media kind of forget about that? How about the people that Hamas is still holding? That doesn’t seem to be a story anymore either. Or the Americans that they just left in the Russian prisons as they brought a few back home? Gotta at least give them a thought!

H John

Comments about Harris for President. Women’s rights, Abortion, Price of Insulin (Biden) Opened border, Suing bank in Ca, Minimum sentences for criminals. These seem to be her interests but nothing about running the country and dealing with other countries. Most of her support are people who could care less about policy and country and the safety of our country. Seems like we have one other choice, Trump!

Trump Republicans’ new mantra: Only the indicted are invited.

KC

As Kamala Harris kicks off her campaign, it is impressive how she has staked out new positions on everything from fracking to funding police. In 2020 she was going to ban fracking, but today she is all for fracking. In 2020 she wanted to eliminate ICE and the Border Patrol, but today she is for increasing the budget for ICE and the Border Patrol. If you follow her too closely you could get whiplash from her changing positions.

Michael Stern

Glad I don’t live in Upper Pottsgrove. What a waste of taxpayer dollars going toward legal fees concerning the open space debacle! Open space means open space!

Trump killed the Border Deal. Period. Does he think everyone will forget by election time? He wants to make everything in this country as bad as possible to make himself look better. We won’t forget, we see right through this phony.

An American who made threats against Taylor Swift was detained by authorities ahead of her concert in Germany. While here in the USA radical leftists who make threats of violence and death against President Trump get their own television shows, host CNN, get elected/re-elected to their Democrat Party political posts, and worst of all, are glorified for their presidential campaign rhetoric calling for the death of their opponent.

Rusty

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. Sound familiar MAGA?

RealAmerica

Harris Accomplishments: Allowed 10M unvetted illegals into America. Historic inflation crisis. Record high gas prices in all 50 states. Record high consumer debt. Released terrorists into our country. Ukraine-Russia war. Israel-Hamas war. Disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Skyrocketing violent crime. Tried to jail political rivals. Lied to the world about Joe’s mental decline. Declared war on American energy. Historic low K-12 test scores. Illegal attempts to cancel student loans. Most unpopular VP in history.

Righty Tighty

I hope that there is a journalist brave enough to start asking Kamala some hard questions about the border or how long did she know about Biden’s health and never said anything. All of a sudden she is lying about everything she stood for in the Biden-Harris ticket … and no one is asking her questions. It’s so infuriating! Journalists, or so-called journalists, have no problem asking Trump questions and may I say disrespectfully.

Dot

Monday, 8 a.m., 8/5/24: FOX Business (FBN) – “Worldwide Market Meltdown! Recession?” FOX News (FOX) – “The Sky Is Falling! Harris Must Answer Questions!” (Why? Because you say so?) Noon: FBN – “Markets Rising! Market Correction! Buy Now!“ FOX – “U.S. Crisis! Markets Down! Mideast War Imminent! Biden, Harris, Left At Fault!” Their business model (and political tactic) is selling fear. Don’t buy it. The sun will likely rise Tuesday. If you read this, it probably did.

I guess only conservatives notice when every election season rolls around, all-white and half-white Democrat politicians suddenly develop a Southern Black accent while campaigning in Black neighborhoods. Obama, Biden, AOC, Kamala, Hillary, etc. They all excelled in their studies at the Advanced Level Democrat Pandering School. Dems be tripp’n!

Butch

Patriot 54, you are parroting what the MAGAs were saying about Jill Biden. Jane, yes, I think the IOC needs better gender testing, but a broken nose is a hazard of boxing.

The Moderate

Democrats are already pushing another one of their revisions to election laws demanding all absentee, mail-in, and drop box ballots received for Joe Biden are to be counted as votes for Kamala Harris. How else are the Democrats going to win if the millions of their preprinted Biden ballots aren’t counted?

Hamala Karris

Dear Democrats, please remember just a couple of weeks ago Joe Biden’s approval ratings among Democrats were close to single digits, you were all blasting him for his incompetence and demanding his resignation. Now that the DNC Swamp Kings have retried Dementia Joe, stop trying to save face by saying he was a great President. He will forever be known as the absolute worst president in US history. You can’t rewrite history.

Little Joe

Kamala Harris is documented on video stating she will ban fracking, decriminalize illegal immigration, and defund the police, but the VP is now hoping that voters will forget her ultra-liberal legacy. I guess that’s what Harris means when she says: “unburdened by what has been”. Don’t be fooled!

Robert Minninger

The Democrats’ newest coordinated talking point is to call Trump and Vance “weird.” This coming from the party that invites millions of unvetted illegals into our country, promotes nude transgender parties at the White House, gay sex videos filmed in senate hearing rooms, cocaine in the West Wing, booing God at their national convention, biological men using women’s bathrooms, pornography in grade school libraries, DEI hiring practices, etc. So tell me, who’s weird?

Missy Miss

As Biden’s VP, Kamala maintains ownership of all the disastrous policies that have dragged down this country the past 3.5 years. She cast the deciding vote for Biden’s massive spending package that unleashed the worst inflation in four decades, presided over the worst border crisis in American history and helped lead the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, repeatedly assuring the American people that Joe was “vibrant, tireless, and absolutely authoritative on the job.”

Patriot45/47

Watching all of Trump’s political ads, everything is negative. They are all attack ads. Why won’t he tell us what he will do to improve our country? Anyone with a record like his wouldn’t want to talk about it. He’s distancing himself from Project 2025, but that is exactly what he wants to do. If you learn what’s in that plan, it will scare the hell out of you. You will have no say in anything.

I’m sure we are all aware of the Tim Walz China ties, before holding elected office. 1989-1990 taught CCP-approved courses in China. 1994 Walz & wife honeymoon in China. 1992-2003 traveled frequently with high school students to China. Does this bring joy to anyone? How about “Make America Great Again.”

Ernman

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

Bill Wilson

In the 1940s, young men faked their age to fight in WWII. In 2024 we have “males” pretending to be “females” to win in sports. How twisted is that?

Jim Fitch

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