In Iowa And New Hampshire "The Nightmare Has Already Begun"

 Monday, January 29th, 2024

My Dear America:

In A Television Season Long Ago one of My Favorite Shows was a Science Fiction Series called "The Invaders".  The series starred Roy Thinnes who played an American named David Vincent who had accidently discovered that America was being invaded by Aliens who looked just like us.  At the beginning of each show the  voice of Actor, William Conrad was heard narrating the setup for the show.  Conrad had been the voice of "The Lone Ranger" on the radio and also played "Cannon" on television.  At the end of his introductory dialogue for every episode of the series William Conrad said the same thing in his unique booming bass voice.  He said:

"And The Nightmare Has Already Begun"

For some reason the frightening sound of Conrad's ancient television warning has been playing in my head in recent days as I have watched with horror the truly disturbing results of the Iowa Caucus and the vote in New Hampshire both important results in the beginning of the 2024 Republican Primary. 

Caucus Night was one of the coldest nights that Iowa had ever seen.

I was hoping against hope that the Frigid temperatures might keep the Iowa Polling results from coming true.  

After all, How could it be in the real world that a man who is facing 91 Felony charges in various courts in different states, a man who has been proved in court to be a rapist, a man who dines with Neo Nazis and sounds like one himself, a man who admires Dictators, A man who was for many years a very close friend and Running Buddy in Palm Beach with Jeffrey Epstein and a man who has not even participated in even one of the Republican Presidential Campaign Televised Debates,  How could this man possibly win the Iowa Caucus by a staggering margin of victory.

Unfortunately Donald Trump won big in the Iowa Caucuses and Donald Trump also won the Republican Primary Election in New Hampshire, although not by as wide a margin as he had expected.  In New Hampshire Trump won only by a margin of around 10 points.  Indeed, Nikki Haley, with every other Republican Rival other than Trump having abandoned their Presidential Ambitions showed by her strong showing in the Granite State that her Campaign might just be gaining enough strength to be giving Donald Trump a run for his money in the future.  

Haley's Speech at the end of the New Hampshire Primary Election Campaign made it clear that she was encouraged by her closer than expected showing and unlike her many rivals for the prize before her who had quit the Campaign trail, she was staying in the race.

Certainly Donald Trump was not at all happy to hear that Nikki Haley was staying in the Republican Race for President.  Onstage With Trump at his Victory Party in New Hampshire were two of the most obnoxious of his previous rivals for the Republican Presidential nod, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy.  Both were doing what they did best as they ran for the Presidency.  They were both onstage Enthusiastically Kissing Trump's Ass.  Trump repaid Scott for his homage by humiliating Scott and Nikki Haley in the same breath by reminding Scott that Nikki Haley had appointed him to the Senate and yet Scott supported Trump.

To make that situation even more humiliating and disgusting, Scott marched up to Trump and told him "I Love You" over the Microphone.

Jesus.  Don't these people ever get embarrassed by their disgusting behavior?

I guess not.    

The truth is that Nikki Haley is probably not a whole lot better Candidate than Donald Trump although she does seem to tell the truth more often than Trump..  She is at least beginning to hit Trump where it hurts, however.  She is calling him out on his astonishing gaffe in which he was lying about how Nikki Haley was calling him from the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 begging him to send troops to save the Capitol.  More than six times Trump mentioned Nikki Haley's name although the person he was talking about was obviously Nancy Pelosi.  In his speech about this incident Trump lied that he sent the troops right away.  The truth is that Trump's Flunky's in the Pentagon were not asked by Trump to send the troops.  The troops were finally sent to the Capitol because Vice President Pence demanded it along with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.  Nancy Pelosi took care to set the record straight on CNN on Sunday and made sure that Trump was not given any credit for sending troops to the Capitol on January Sixth.

After this embarrassing Trump Speech Haley has finally begun to talk about Trump's "Cognitive Decline".

Yes, Friends and Neighbors The Nightmare has already begun for us as Trump has Triumphed in Iowa and New Hampshire. 

But, do not get get too discouraged at this bit of bad news for Democracy.  Lets  not forget that in New Hampshire, where on the Democratic side of the balloting Joe Biden was not even on the ballot but in an astonishing development he won over 50 percent of the votes as a Write In Candidate in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary.

Although there was not a lot of Good News in Iowa and New Hampshire. 

There Was that.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher