# Cal Thomas writes about the Tulsa rally **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592 "2020-06-24T00:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/1 "2020-06-24T00:48:35Z")
I usually don’t agree with him, but he’s written some excellent columns about our excuse for a POTUS, and this week’s is no exception. I give him kudos for taking one for the team and actually watching the whole thing. [https://www.limaohio.com/opinion/415727/cal-thomas-toxic-in-tulsa](https://www.limaohio.com/opinion/415727/cal-thomas-toxic-in-tulsa) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/2 "2020-06-24T02:29:40Z")
> [@Cal Thomas](#): > > The presidency is an honor and privilege that has been granted to only 45 men in our history. Nit-pick: The presidency is an honor and privilege that has been granted to only 44 men in our history. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/3 "2020-06-24T02:43:30Z")
He missed a golden opportunity, Cal? To be presidential? To unite the country? Jesus, is this guy senile? Where has he been for the past five years? Stop waiting for this child of privilege to grow up. He’s never going to morph into a decent human being. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/4 "2020-06-24T02:47:44Z")
Somewhere I saw the Tulsa thing identified as “Coronapalooza”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/5 "2020-06-24T03:01:51Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > He missed a golden opportunity, Cal? To be presidential? To unite the country? > > Jesus, is this guy senile? Where has he been for the past five years? Stop waiting for this child of privilege to grow up. He’s never going to morph into a decent human being. Five years? How about the last seventy years? The right wing has always made a strategy of finding enemies and then using those enemies to scare people into voting for them. The enemies have changed over the years - communists, black people, gay people, women, Mexicans, Muslims, hippies, Satanists, atheists - but the strategy has remained constant. Trump’s just playing the same old game. The only reason people like Cal Thomas are upset is because Trump doesn’t do a very good job of selling it. He’s no more competent as a demagogue than he is at anything else. Conservatives are mad at Trump because he’s damaging the brand name. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/6 "2020-06-24T13:06:31Z")
Damaging the brand name? Shit, he’s driving the GOP tour bus over the Grand Canyon cliff. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/7 "2020-06-24T13:24:56Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Shit, he’s driving the GOP tour bus over the Grand Canyon cliff. Well, from a ledge halfway down the canyon, to the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/8 "2020-06-24T15:15:02Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Shit, he’s driving the GOP tour bus over the Grand Canyon cliff. Problem is, the rest of the country is still attached to the tow hitch. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/9 "2020-06-24T15:31:30Z")
Even worse, half the passengers are yelling “Go faster!!!” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/10 "2020-06-24T21:57:27Z")
It is a GOP tour bus: “half” seems like a bigly small number. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/11 "2020-06-25T02:25:11Z")
I’m amazed that he’s still writing columns. I remember him when I was a kid in the '80s! (And he didn’t strike me as especially young then.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/12 "2020-06-25T05:19:26Z")
According to Wikipedia, he’s 77 years old. I too thought he was older than that. And guess what the latest thing I’m hearing about Tulsa (sorry, no link handy)? Some people who were backstage said that the Manchurian Cantaloupe considered not going onstage because the arena wasn’t full enough. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/13 "2020-06-25T11:14:13Z")
When I lived and worked in Bristol VA/TN back in the 1990s, the local paper carried Cal Thomas’ column. Not only was it a bunch of religious-right crap, his pic that went with it had a distinct resemblance to the guy in the infamous “[Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?](https://www.northernsun.com/Bathroom-Bolshevik-Poster-%284004%29.html)” poster. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s still around. Being a syndicated columnist seems to be an even more secure livelihood than being a tenured professor. At least the professors eventually become ‘emeritus,’ while the columnists keep on writing and being published until they kick the bucket. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cal-thomas-writes-about-the-tulsa-rally/912592/14 "2020-06-25T21:54:08Z")
I had no use for his paranoia back then. This time, I think he should be taken seriously.