Robert Charles - Political Analyst, former Asst. Sec. Of State Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robert, Welcome to the show. If you're a Bush Republican,
you're in the middle, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, I'm really not a Bush Republican. I'm really a
Reagan Republican. I worked for around Reagan off and on
for three years, and I believe the country is finally
now getting itself back on track. But I will tell
you why. This moment in American history is very similar
to nineteen eighty four in the sense that the country

(00:29):
Reagan realigned, the country in fact pulled over what they
used to call Reagan Democrats into his camp, and the
country really did realign itself around core priorities, which were
smaller government, lower taxes, strong defense. Of course, in this
day and age, we have to protect our border a
bunch of other things. And I am running in Maine

(00:49):
really as a what i'd call it common sense conservative,
because I believe that's where the country is. But more importantly,
Maine is in a terrible state of play right now,
and people who know it may become for the summer.
Maine is in a state where we went from five
overdoses maybe fifteen years ago to ten thousand overdoses last year.
In this state, it's being carved up by drug traffickers.

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We have a tax system that puts us number one.
We have the number one property taxes in the country
in Maine, a little place with an average income of
forty two thousand dollars. And then we have just the
garbage that you're reading about in the newspapers and the
arguments that this very leftist governor Mills is having with

(01:33):
President Trump. My view is cut crime, cut taxes, and
cut the nonsense. And it's very straightforward. We are in
a position where a state that used to be fantastic
in terms of its safety and its liveability is now
currently unaffordable, absolutely unaffordable. So I say, if you are
a conservative, go to Bobbyfurmaine dot com and help me

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with a contribution where if you don't want to invest
in a state that is going to turn itself completely
red in twenty twenty six, that's the way to do it.
We're going to turn Maine completely red because it is
a state that is unfortunately just going south under these Democrats.
They've controlled it for the last thirty years.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, you know, one thing is a guy who you know,
spent his youth in Michigan. It's a very similar situation there.
They vacillate back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. They
never seemingly make up their mind about what it is
that they want. They have it, they have it pretty
good under a Republican governor, and then they turn around
and elect a you know, a far left Democrat. And

(02:34):
that's not what's going on there right now, although they
do have a very progressive governor in Michigan. What's wrong
with these states? Why can't they figure out where they're
making their mistakes?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
You know, I think that there has been and don't
underestimate it. It's going to be true. In Texas, just
like Michigan and Maine, there is a absolutely relentless progressive push.
They want to corrupt the process in the sense that
the progressives. Progressive used to be a good word. It's
not a good word anymore. The progressives, those who essentially

(03:04):
have subscribed to something just shy of Marxism, want to
have illegal aliens voting. They want to have the government
controlling everything. They want to put faith out of business.
They want to put an environment where the administrators and
those with leftist ideology control the schools, not the parents.
They want high taxes, because it gives them control. And

(03:28):
I think what Maners have finally realized or are realizing
now is you know what this is, you know, the
slow train to hell. I mean, this is not going
to create a state where you have healthy, happy, prosperous people.
We've chased our young people out of the state because
there are no good jobs. They've ruined the school systems.
We were number one or number two in the country

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in the mid nineteen nineties. We're now number forty nine.
They have put us in a position where we're not
learning things in schools and I have come from a
whole family of teachers. Instead, it's just infuriating the doctornating
these kids. And so I think what happened is Maners
who are like everyday Norman Rockwell people. And again, if
you want to help me win this state back, just
please go to Bobbyfirmaine dot com and help me win

(04:12):
Maine back to conservative common sense. But this is a
state that basically thought it was on the right track,
trusted their leaders, and their leaders took a hard left
turn and they're in trouble.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, well, hopefully they will not be fooled again. You
get elected and re elected and re elected the third time.
If you can run a third time, Robert, thank you.
Robert Charles, political analyst, and as he mentioned, a candidate
for governor Maine, bobbyfmaine dot com