We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.

Indeed, Political Correctness is the source of an enormous amount of incorrectness.

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.

Well, it isn't this Administration alone by any means.  It's the whole movement to forget and repeat the mistakes of the past, and what is happening in the states is more important than what is happening in the federal government.  Even so, the current Administration is part of the problem, not part of the solution.  Even though we must regard the numbers as preliminary, there is indeed good reason to believe that decades of progress in bringing down crime are in danger of reversal.

My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Absolutely.  The trend we have seen in recent years toward going soft on crime, with some conservatives climbing on board, has been ideological in part, but it has also been partly just to save the government the money it costs to keep the bad guys locked up.

That is penny-wise and pound-foolish.  Incapacitation works, and it is well worth the cost.  The failure of government to protect people from crime imposes a cost on people that is heavier than any taxes saved.  Crime directly damages the victims of the crime.  Money spent on alarms and security patrols is money not spent on investment in productive capital. 

The deterioration of neighborhoods as shoppers and honest residents flee from crime results in an enormous loss of capital, not only for businesses but also for regular folks.  Most Americans eventually sell their homes for much more than they paid for them.  But if your neighborhood goes to hell in a handbasket because the government will not protect it from crime, you may well walk away with nothing.  That is more than a tax.  That is confiscation of your equity.

California's prison overcrowding crisis was not caused by excessively harsh sentencing.  It was caused by failure to expand capacity even to keep up with population growth.  We are now paying for it in blood but also in treasure.

In this race for the White House, I am the Law And Order candidate.

Music to my ears, but is this speech enough?

Much of the convention consisted of Donald Trump's wife and children telling us that he is not really the character we have been seeing for the last year.  I was really hoping after he clinched the nomination that Donan the Vulgarian would be put on the shelf and a worthy leader for the party would emerge.  He made a good start with his judicial list and then promptly relapsed into pettiness.

So what are our choices in November?

1.  Vote for a minor party candidate?  First, that is throwing away a vote on someone with no chance.  Second, there is none I could vote for without holding my nose anyway.

2.  Write in a name?  That avoids the nose-holding problem, but it's still throwing away a vote.

3.  Not vote?  Still not casting an effective vote against Hillary Clinton.

4.  Vote for Clinton?  Included only for completeness.  Utterly out of the question.

5.  Vote for Trump?  I do hope that he continues to improve between now and the election to the point that I can do this in good conscience.

This particular post represents only my personal opinion.  CJLF does not endorse candidates.