A few takeaways from the Democrat debate last night:
As I was listening to Joe Biden exclaim how parents should turn on the record player for their kids…
We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help.
They don’t know what quite what to do. Play the radio. Make sure the television—excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. The phone—make sure the kids hear words.
A kid coming from a very poor school—er, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.
Biden actually may have been trying to channel George Will, from his latest book, The Conservative Sensibility:
The most important influence on early learning is being talked to by parents and caregivers.
The issue is not the substance of the chatter. “I am going to load the dishwasher with these dirty plates. Do you see that large yellow truck?”
But the torrent of verbal stimuli as the child’s brain is developing. By age three, children from poor homes have heard, on average, 30 million fewer words spoken at home than children in professional class homes.
It’s like Biden pulled his brain out of the oven just about five minutes too early. Nice try on that idea-pie there, Uncle Joe.
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But at least he’s not just flailing for Woke-Points, like Robert Francis, er…”Beto”… O’Rourke. “Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15.”
You might want to invest in some gun stocks, because purchases of those items probably just ticked up another 10%.
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And then there’s super-lawyer Kamala Harris. Biden came at her with, “you can’t do that because it’s against the Constitution.”
(Does it really matter what anti-Constitutional thing Harris was talking about?)
And Harris responded, after chuckling, “Hey, Joe, instead of saying no we can’t, let’s say yes we can!”
And that was it. And she’s a lawyer.
Awesome.
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Just prior to the debate, news leaked that Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel and professional talking head Ann Coulter are going to headline a fundraiser for Kris Kobach’s U.S. Senate campaign.
Kobach opponents, on both sides of the aisle, immediately noted a Coulter Tweet:
Kansas is dead to me.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 7, 2018
Now, keep in mind, this was on Election Night, in response to the elections of Governor Laura Kelly and Congresswoman Sharice Davids.
That being said, if Kobach was looking for a campaign with less bombast, an Ann Coulter party doesn’t exactly get you there.
And if Kobach seems to be picking up steam — and if the rumors of Alan Cobb potentially getting into the race are true — a Mike Pompeo candidacy gets more and more likely.
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And if Pompeo gets into the race, whenever that might happen, that REALLY messes up the Kansas 1st District race.
Because if Pompeo jumps in, likely KS-01 Rep. Roger Marshall gets out…and heads back to his campaign for the House.
But do the other candidates — at this point former Lt. Gov. Tracey Mann and Finney County Commissioner, Bill Clifford — then drop out?
The Club for Growth has no love for Marshall, and they could see that situation as an opportunity to primary Marshall with the candidate of their choice.
Boy, that’s a lotta balls in the air.
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