Next Ohio Governor? Vivek Ramaswamy Clinches
the Republican Nomination

This will be interesting. I'm not too sure about Vivek. He seems like a solid guy, but something just doesn't seem 100% right about him. Might just be my suspicious nature.

Well, #1, there are many many of us with suspicious natures then.

When we were in India, years ago, we went to a rug merchant and there was this nice young salesman, maybe mid-late 20s. A pleasant, well spoken, well dressed young Indian man. As we listened to his well practiced and interesting spiel, and watched his on-site rug maker pushing in tufts of wool, in a pattern, and then trimming it by hand with those kind of weird one piece spring shears that they used to shear sheep with, it was fine. He had a great spiel, nice young man. He saw my Timex black plastic Ironman watch, specifically selected to wear to avoid wearing anything expensive or flashy. I had thought it was just going to be ignored, and tell time. He said he'd never seen anything like it, acted absolutely fascinated. Wanted to look at it, would I take it off. Struck me as weird as hell, it was like a $40 sports watch, with a stopwatch function, digital. I figured something was up, but couldn't figure what it was. I handed it to him, thinking he was being sarcastic, pulling my leg in some weird salesman way, mooning over a cheap plastic Timex like it was a Rolex. He was thrilled to look at it. He wanted to trade me something for it. I looked around and they had these small, 18 inch by 24 inch, approx, sample rugs, all knotted, patterned beautiful wool mini rugs. He gave me half a dozen of them (we use them for place mats) for the watch. I don't think they normally sell them at all, they are just to show different patterns that are available....kinda like paint chips. He gave us what I think, and still do, was a good deal on an unusual black background, gold pattern rug which is in our living room. He promised to roll it carefully and ship it by air ASAP, included in the price. I stayed in India for another week, flew home, and by the time I got there it was delivered to the front porch, sewn securely in many layers of burlap, wrapped on a bamboo pole, exactly as purchased, undamaged, all customs duties paid, shipping paid to the door. He was totally honest did a perfect job.....but I always thought while I was there that something was odd, something was cooking behind the scenes, and that he was slickering us somehow. Turned out, he wasn't. He was dead honest, and he really loved that watch....which I still can't figure. Maybe they don't sell them in India. In any case.....Vivek gives me the same feeling. Seems like something is going on under the surface. But I was dead wrong about the Indian rug salesman, and maybe I'm dead wrong about Vivek, too. I'd definitely buy from the rug merchant again, with confidence. Hope Vivek turns out the same way. I cannot say anything bad about Vivek. Maybe it's just a cultural gap.

The people of Ohio just need to get over their “cultural gap”, or whatever you want to call it, because his opponent is another Spannberger, Hochul, and every other crazy-eyed progressive wolf in sheep’s clothing who “knows what’s best for us.” She was on TV every day during Covid telling us to stay inside, keeping us from going to church, closing schools, imposing curfews, because everyone knows, Covid germs are more dangerous after 11 pm. I for one cannot forget the authoritarian nightmare that was Ohio during that terrible time. Yes, we had feckless RINO governor DeWine, but she was whispering in his ear the whole time.

Interesting takes on Vivek. Humanity has always held a deep seated mistrust of those who are not like us so suspicion is not unusual here. For a contrast, listen to one speech from Commie Mamdani and there is no doubt that the snake oil is being laid on thick and greasy but I think we are okay with Vivek and Ohio could use some brains at the top.

He is not white, nor Christian so we must pull out our skin based or religion based racism and keep saying that something doesn’t feel right. I know his value system is strong and he loves the country and he wants to do good things , but that brown skin. I think I would rather have a Muslim who looks white, even though their agenda might be to build a 1000 mosques and advance Islam. Bottom line: skin color is important (Sarcasm off)

Ohio voters get to pick between a business creator and a government/non-profit org employee. I hope they have been paying attention.

Oh, and I forgot to say.....If I lived in Ohio, I'd definitely vote for Vivek. I need to adjust my BS meter a bit for "nice Indian guys". It has given me several wrong false positives.

I just hope Vivek pushes the economic factors and the idea of the American dream. Remind people today's Democrats would never elect JFK or even Bill Clinton, they've strayed that far left. How today's Democrats aren't pursuing policies that won't expand opportunities for people but pushing ideas requiring you to lower your expectations and believe only huge government is their solution. Illustrate how growing government and pushing job destroying regulations only adds to making things less affordable. How the entrepreneurial spirit is much better than the Democrat idea of Universal Basic Income scheme.