How’d it play in Davenport?

JD Vance with those piercing blue eyes..

JD Vance with his endless lies...

When Evan was a high school junior and senior, he was an active member of the Speech and Debate team.

 The school always did well--and so did our son.

 I remember being volunteer judges with all those other parents who'd get up at an ungodly hour on a Saturday to take the bus with the team and go to various high schools in the state to either break a teenager's heart, or make them soar, with a rating of one to six,  and detailed feedback filled with praise or thinly veiled constructive criticism,   as we listened to them plead their cases in a variety of categories.

 For fun, we rated the debaters of the 2024 election with the same methods we'd use to rate those terrified and/or poised students. 

 We compared notes and agreed, the number one place would  be awarded to Harris, followed by Walz, Vance, Biden, and lastly Trump, who joined the Master Debater Team in the first place because he thought it was something else entirely.

JD could at least  form sentences: Trump should be serving them.

Maybe JD showed a touch of humanity when he told Walz that he hadn't realized that Gus had witnessed a shooting, and maybe he sounded a little polished when he said he'd support a Walz vice presidency, but c'mon..this is still the snake oil salesman saying childless Haitian women were eating their cats, or something like than that. 

I don't trust the guy, but I'm afraid to admit he spoke well.

But how  did he play in Peoria?

Or worse..how'd he do in Davenport???

(You have to be older than the hills to get that last remark)