Sunday Morning Coming Down

The Governor of North Dakota is Doug Burgum.  I'm not going to make him a hero. You can read what he's done in Wikipedia.  He's a Republican and was an early big investor in Great Plains Software which was acquired by Microsoft. I'm not sure how wealthy he is.  He has enough money to offer $20 gift cards to the first 50,000 voters that donate $1 to his presidential campaign so he can appear on the stage with other Republican hopefuls in their first debate.  I guess it's easier than getting 50,000 people to send you $20 (a double sawbuck) $1,000.000. I'm a democrat.   Closed party primaries and open party primaries have positive features for candidate selection.  The biggest problem with primaries is small turnouts and results that represent the most active, truest believers, who might not be the best candidates. Being a governor of even a small state is a good training ground for higher office. What would people think if Walmart offered gift cards to v...

The highest three branches of government in the u.s.a. hardly rate being capitalized. We have elected at least one president that is a better performer than a governor. (Twice impeached, twice indicted and the legal system isn't done.) Our representatives in congress are too often better at fund raising than legislating.  (According to U.S. Term Limits over 50% of their time is spent raising money for their campaigns.) Our supreme court judges now reflect a political system rather than an old fashioned 'judicial temperament".  Some long recognized decisions have been overturned by a "packed Supreme Court" handpicked from the Federalist Society legions.