As a 50-year resident of CA, I am beyond embarrassed by the protestors at the Costa Mesa Trump rally on Thursday night and at the CA GOP membership meeting in Burlingame on Friday, where Trump gave an address.
In my travels across the nation, I constantly hear people calling Cali “the land of fruits and nuts” and these people are not necessarily all Republican! What happened this week just makes Cali look chaotic, difficult, at best, to actually navigate day to day and “full of `illegal aliens'” out in the open sporting Mexican flags acting “violent.” The front of both venues were jam packed with police in “full riot gear” (likely nearly the entire force of the small city of Costa Mesa and tiny cities of Burlingame and SSF). WTF?? And Trump hadn’t even arrived yet at either venue or said one word!
The whole sordid mess played right into what Trump has been saying all along about why America needs a “wall” on its southern border.
Only near windy SF (known as the most “liberal, left-wing bastion” of the country) would you see on national television dozens of topless college students circling a convention center in broad daylight in body paint and wearing pasties. What’s wrong with these kids? Don’t they have midterms coming up? And then the nation sees Trump and an entourage of 12 all wearing expensive suits and shoes ditch their expensive SUVs on the side of the fwy to make their way around temporary concrete guardrails, down a few makeshift stairs, across iceplant and weeds with ties blowing up into the wind, running onto the asphalt around high pallets of construction materials, and into the back door of the venue all the while surrounded by armed guards with their legs in guard stance and hands on their holsters with helicopters swirling overhead. Good L@rd! Certainly, it wasn’t a good impression of the “Golden State” on national TV.
Why should a political rally which is scheduled to move all over the state (possibly over two dozen stops in 4-5 weeks) take up so much municipal and county resources? It is utterly ridiculous.
Both sets of protestors managed to turn Trump’s important message he came here to deliver into a freak show and were so, so disrespectful of the election process. Their antics also cemented Cali’s reputation with the rest of the country as another planet full of lunatics which will most certainly fall into the ocean whenever the “Big One” hits . . . and good riddance!
It was all so disgusting. No wonder Trump decided to take today off. He’s probably rethinking the logistics of his campaign in Cali in light of these surreal events. That brings me to “Little Marco.” I think it’s time for Trump to consider Rubio for a running mate. I think Trump and Christie are a better match and would be fine together but they hail from the same part of the country and likely share many of the same values so he is not a very “diverse” choice. For many reasons, Trump needs Rubio right now if he is interested. I predict that Trump will ask Rubio to be his running mate in the next two weeks but I cannot predict what Rubio’s response will be.
