In Spanish, we say “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” – “Tell me with whom you walk and I will tell you who you are.”
He watched parts of the blue convention, recorded, of course, so he could skip all the parts where he knew what they were going to say before they said it. Pleasantly surprised by Nicole Wallace of late.
Frankly, he thought Katy Perry gave the best speech. Sings good, too. Can you imagine a weekend with Katy AND Sarah Silverman? Me neither. Write something in there about me and Denzel and Matthew McConghey, however you spell it, the young redhead interjects.
Before singing like some shimmery slutty angel, Katy offers some simple and simply brilliant get-out-the-vote thinking – On a personal level, you can individually cancel out the vote of a billionaire by simply casting your vote for the less odious candidate. I may be paraphrasing here.
The old man’s own career as a political consultant had taken another good news/bad news turn. Candidate for Congress was apparently deaf to any outsider advice about actually winning. The best ones always are.
The old man was out a half-day of his life, missed a workout and spent a total of four hours racing up and down the Interstate with a retired WWII submarine commander who spent all his time watching his GPS and his radar detector but not the road. Felt like a sidewinder rattlesnake on crystal meth riding a zipline. Didn’t even stop for lunch.
That’s the bad news.
Good news. The old man was now the Executive Director of the Volkswagen Diesel Owners For Trump super PAC.
It’s a paying position if I can count on your support.