POTUS alpha males
Dear editor:
For 250 or more years, this country has been led and managed by alpha males such as Ben Franklin, the Adams family, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and a few others.
Most of the others were “also-rans and wannabes.” In both houses of Congress, over the years, we have had thousands of senators and representatives who may or may not have had good intentions regarding the welfare of our nation — yet most of them certainly enjoyed the prestige and power of holding higher office.
Today, it is said that there is a “revolt” in the Republican Party in Washington. Sens. Jeff Flake and Jeff Corker are not running for re-election. Could it be that they realize that they are no longer candidates for the position of “alpha male” in the Senate or even in the country?
An alpha male is a leader — one we look to for motivation and inspiration. He does not fight to destroy, but to defend. No wonder Trump won the election. Middle class America sent him there to drain the swamp of those also-rans who were marching to the beat of progressivism and socialism at the expense of the wage-earner on the street.
RINOs (we know who they are) and the Gang of Eight hide behind their ideologies, but I have to wonder if it is more a battle of egos and attempts to establish themselves as alpha males in the age of Trump. Actually, the Republican Party is void of leadership.
The Democrat Party also has no one at the helm. I have to think that the Clintons were both at the top or near the top at one time or another, but Hillary failed to win the battle she waged both in the party as well as on the national stage to be the alpha male she had always assumed was her birthright. A lot more insight about both Bill and Hillary has emerged as a result of a book I just read entitled “Hillary, the Other Woman” written by Dolly Kyle from Hot Springs.
Had the sale of uranium to Russia been an on-top-of-the-table decision by the Obama team (including Hillary) and approved by Congress, it would have been just an arm’s length sale and a bad decision not in the best interests of our country.
However, if it is true that the Clinton Foundation received tens of millions of dollars in donations as an incentive for the secretary of state to approve the deal and Bill received half a million dollars for a 20-minute speech, then it certainly appears to be a kickback scheme, which I believe is treasonous. Treason has resulted, in the past, in the guilty party being hanged or shot by a firing squad.