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...noone will beat DJT45, thus a Trump - Kennedy ticket would be awesome...

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EXCERPT FROM "ADVENTURES IN TURNIPVILLE" Copyright 2023 by John Martine and Joyful Pictures Sound & Press

FIRST DRAFT OF THE PHILADELPHIA SPEECH

My Fellow Citizens,

This is a speech I thought I would never have to make. As you know I love my father and uncle deeply. They were once stalwart members of a once-great political party, known as the Democratic Party. Both my father and uncle loved that party and all that that house stood for. It was the hopeful home of Franklin and Eleanor Rooselt, The New Deal and The Nuclear Test Band Treaty. A home where new, fresh and exciting ideas were welcomed in with warmth and enthusiasm. Where the family of natioanal caregivers worked day and night to create a nation free of depression, despair and idleness. Women and men who brought forth a new nation equipped to grow and thrive in the last half of the 20th century. I had ALWAYS assumed I would ALWAYS be a proud Democrat. But, you see, something happened, something terrible happened. Something called The Democratic National Committee has driven a wedge between myself and my beloved Democratic Party! Few things would have made me prouder than to be able to say: "I am The Democratic Party's nominee for the Presidency of our great United States". But, you see, this very small, small-minded group of people known as The Democratic National Committee has made this impossible. They have changed fundemental, long-standing party rules, moved the goal posts, and made it so only President Biden is eligible for The Democratic Party's nomination. Naturally, I want to win this mighty primary contest fair and square. Let the person with the most votes be nominated! by all means! But, if I fall asleep at the switch and don't read the small print written in the playbook the DNC has concocted for me, I will be headed down the primrose path to oblivion! Well, I'm here to tell the DNC that I am wide awake and I am on a path alright, the path to the White House!! If run for president in the primaries as a democrat, and the DNC has their way under their new set of dictates, every single solitary vote I receive from you, would be given to President Biden or simply erased. In this situation, if you had vote for me, the DNC is going to steal your vote and steal your voice. In a perfect country, the kind of country our founding fathers and mothers envisioned for all of us, I would not have to make today's speech. But these are the punishing cards the DNC has dealt me, so I must act swiftly and decisively if I am to become your next president.

The small-minded Democratic National Committee's unfair and cruel scheme for me brings me to this illustrius city, this stage and this place in time with all of you, today.

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''And so, my fellow citizens, I will close with the this:

While these are envigorating and exciting times in which to live in our beautiful country, America,

today's announcement brings me little happiness. I do not want to depart from the long-standing traditions of my father's and uncle's party. But I am at peace with my decision because I know that faced with the exact same immoveable corruption, heartlessness and fear both my father and uncle would have departed that den of darkness to seek a brighter world.

Thank you.

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