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It pains me greatly to ask this, but I must.<\/p>\n

How in the world am I going to watch the Republican National Convention after having my spirits lifted from the Democratic National Convention?<\/p>\n

The RNC is set to nominate the most loathsome individual I have seen in my lifetime to the office of president. They anointed Donald Trump their party’s nominee in 2016 and then he surprised practically every political pundit\/analyst\/observer on Earth by actually winning<\/em> the election.<\/p>\n

He is likely to deliver the same hideous sort of speech late in the week when he accepts the nomination a second time. The speakers will seek to paint this individual as something he most certainly is not: a statesman, a leader. He is nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

Indeed, when Democratic nominee Joe Biden pledged on Thursday to be a “president for all Americans,”<\/em> my mind drifted immediately to the horror being brought at this moment to our friends and family members in California. Fires are threatening lives up and down the state.<\/p>\n

Where is Donald Trump’s expression of support? When has he said he would devote all federal help possible to assist those<\/em> Americans? Trump does not see himself, in my view, as their<\/em> president. He is president only to the base that stands with him and his ghastly pronouncements.<\/p>\n

I’ve never had to deal with this immense gulf between candidates of opposing parties competing for the presidency. To be candid, it makes me quite uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

In 2008 and again in 2012, I watched the RNC with considerable interest as the GOP nominated, respectively, two fine men with stellar records of public service: the late John McCain and Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

In 2000 and 2004, I was able to watch the RNC nominate George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

It is remarkable, indeed, to think that President Bush and Gov. Romney, two of the GOP’s three most recent nominees will not take part in this year’s virtual convention. Sen. McCain, were he around, certainly would want<\/em> to stay far away from any political event having to do with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

I’ll suck it up and watch at least part<\/em> of the RNC that’s coming up. However, I might have to clear the room of any objects I could throw at my TV.<\/p>\n\n

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