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Now comes the hard part. Now comes the part where Donald Trump has to appeal to everyone in the U.S. Trumpwillrackuplots of easy votes in the fall with his rabid fan base — older grumpy white males and their spouses who want change but don't really know or care if Trump is a Republi- can or a Democrat. But voters who want to make America great again by being mean to Latinos or by putting tariffs on air-con- ditioners and iPhones won't add up to a majority. If he wants to become president, Trump has to mend a lot of fences, say a lot of mea culpas and learn a bunch of important political and economic things. Like manners. Like humil- ity. Like gravitas. And like making nice with the Bush/Cruz/Kasich conser- vatives he's been insulting and demeaning with sophomoric cheap shots for the last year. The presumptive Republi- can nominee should start his political fence-repair work by trying to win over a few mil- lion women voters. It won't be easy. Three- fourths of women think he's a piece of dirt and wouldn't vote for him if he was mar- ried to Hillary. I don't know what it'll take, or even if it's possible, but some- how Trump has to prove that deep down he is not the sexist boor he's been playing on TV. I know one thing he should not do — attack Hillary for enabling her lecherous hus- band Bill and attacking the women who say they were ac- costed by him. That didn't work in the 1990s. All it did was make in- dependent women vote for Hillary or stay home. Trump's long march to vic- tory over the Republican po- litical establishment has been an amazing thing to watch — kind of like a TV miniseries where the bad guy never gets taken down in the end by the good guys. For a year he's made fools of the media pundits and mincemeat of the profes- sional politicians of his party. He's the un-politician who broke all the rules of the pri- mary game and won. That's a big reason he got so many votes in so many states. We wanted a Washing- ton outsider. What we got was a salesman. He did and said whatever he had to do to make the sale to the Republi- can electorate. As I tweeted earlier this week, the GOP is no longer the Party of Reagan, it's the Party of Trump. Where he takes Republi- cans from here is anyone's guess, but it's probably going to be one of the wilder politi- cal rides in modern American history. If America gets lucky, Trump will hit his head on a tree limb and when he wakes up he'll be a real conservative who runs on a platform of slashing government spend- ing and abolishing the IRS. Or maybe he'll hire some economists who can teach him why tariffs are bad for America because they punish consumers and not corporations. Or maybe someone will ex- plain to him why building a 300-foot wall on the Mexican border and rounding up 11 million illegal immigrants is not how a free — and great — country should do immigra- tion reform. Trump will need everybody he can get to defeat Hillary. Who he picks for vice pres- ident will be interesting, but it won't really matter because we know people don't vote for a president because they like the VP choice. It could be Rubio or Kasich, because that would help him in Florida and Ohio. It could be a Latina woman like Nevada Governor Susana Martinez. Or, knowing Trump, he might go outside the box and name one of his business part- ners we've never heard of. No one knows where he's going to go until he goes there. There is one thing I know for sure. If Trump becomes president he won't be able to treat the members of the G-7 or the G-20 the same way he treated the GOP 17. MichaelReaganisthesonof President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press). Send comments to Reagan@ caglecartoons.com. Follow @ reaganworld on Twitter. MichaelReagan Lots of luck to the presumptive GOP nominee Cartoonist's take "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." Robert Louis Stevenson. I first encoun- tered this poem at a Community Concert in the old RBUHS audi- torium circa 1937. My maiden Aunt Grace, an edu- cator, decided that I was go- ing to be something special, and so steered me to such con- certs. During the intermission of a long forgotten pianist, her companion that evening, likewise unmarried, a Miss Fowler, presented me with an autograph book, and made the above quote the first en- try. I can no longer remember her first name, but the memory of her entry lives on after all these years. Robert Louis Balfour Ste- venson was a Scottish novel- ist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is mostly forgot- ten as a poet, but his works of fiction, Treasure Island, Kid- napped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde con- tinue to be on many book- shelves. He was born No- vember 13, 1850, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and died De- cember 3, 1894 in Samoa. As a sidebar to "The world is so full of a number of things," may I remind you that one such thing is the prospect of our first ever female President. Embrace that concept and let's see what she can do. ••• As correct thinking ob- servers bemoan the rise of Trump and his monopolizing the news, take heart that the anti-Trump media is flourish- ing. The New Yorker usually contains about 15 to 20 origi- nal cartoons every issue, and, without fanfare, printed 17 in- dividual anti-Trump cartoons. Are there that many things to make fun of him about, you ask? I think a case could be made for that. ••• The San Francisco Chronicle has long been a staple of ours for noontime reading. True, we read the sports page first. This is because sports are absolute. Somebody wins, somebody loses. Case closed. Maybe win- ning two out of three is still in doubt, but we can wait another day. However, this was not al- ways the case. Our first reads were al- ways the "Chron" columnists. They were the great arbiters of the lives of those living in the large, mysterious city by bay. "Numba One," of course, Herb Caen. Followed by Charles Mc- Cabe, Stanton Delaplane, Art Hoppe, Ralph J. Gleason and so on, but all gone now. The last to depart was Jon Carroll. He decided to hang it up while he still had his faculties. This was months ago, even though the Chron promised a contest to soon select another in this great tradition of writers. The first of the new crop de- buted Monday. He is Kevin Fisher-Paulson. He has a hus- band named Brian, and they have collectively 2 sons, 10 and 12, and 3 rescue dogs. I wish them well but do not con- nect with them and their ball games to the same extent I once did with Herbert sitting in with the Benny Goodman sextet, or Artie Shaw mak- ing eyes at Lana Turner from the bandstand in the St. Fran- cis Hotel Mirror Room in days of yore. It seems easier to find the former activity more intrigu- ing than the latter of Kevin and Brian. ••• Appropriate sign in depart- ment store: "Unattended chil- dren will be given a cup of espresso and a puppy." ••• Unclear on the concept de- partment: Dear Abby: I hope you can help me with a problem. I went to work leaving my husband at home. My car stalled about a mile away and I had to walk back home. However, when I got there discovered my hus- band in bed with a neigh- bor's wife. What should I do? Greatly upset. Dear upset: A car stalling after driven only a mile on a cold morning can be caused by a variety of faults with the en- gine. Start with checking the fuel line. If not clogged with debris then check the fuel pump itself which may cause poor delivery to the injectors. ••• If you have applied for ser- vice, anything from a broken leg to a rain gutter clean out, you can be assured to receive a follow up letter asking you to take a moment to evaluate said service. Why is this? Pub- lic relations are important, of course, and satisfactory replies can be used in future advertis- ing. I suppose it could also be used to head off potential law- suits. If you reply your clean- out was great, it is unlikely you will turn on your benefac- tor and claim your gutter next season leaks like a sieve. ••• Sources say income affects U.S. life span. Money may not buy happiness but it might just buy you more time on earth. People with higher in- comes live longer. Overall, people with the top 1% in in- come live 10 to 15 years longer than those at the bottom 1%. In Salt Lake City, the highest income folks live 88 years on average. Oklahoma City they only average 78, and Gary, In- diana you tap out at 77. ••• There was a time when guns were not a national obsession. They were viewed as basic tools in the 1800s and were ne- cessities for hunting and farm- ing. But as fewer Americans performed these tasks in the 20th century, gun makers had to advertize to have people want guns. Therefore began the campaign to make guns about "honor" rather than in- toxication, justice rather than impulsivity and homicide rather than suicide. The re- sults have been remarkable. Today America is home to 300 million firearms. ••• Jenny, a blonde girl came skipping home from school one day. "Mommy," she yelled, "we were counting today, and all the other kids could only count to four, but I counted to 10." "Very good," said her mother. "Is it because I'm blonde," Jenny asked. "Yes, it's because you're blond," said her mother. The next day, the girl yelled, "Mommy, Mommy. We were in gym class today, and when we showered, all the other girls had flat chests, ex- cept me." "Very good," said her embarrassed mother "Is it be- cause I'm blonde, mommy?" "No honey, it's because you're 24." Robert Minch is a lifelong resident of Red Bluff, former columnist for the Corning Daily Observer and Meat Industry magazine and author of the "The Knocking Pen." He can be reached at rminchandmurray@ hotmail.com. I say Embrace the concept of a female as president Trump's long march to victory over the Republican political establishment has been an amazing thing to watch — kind of like a TV miniseries where the bad guy never gets taken down in the end by the good guys. Sounding off Alookatwhatreadersaresayingincommentsonourwebsiteandonsocialmedia. Gladeveryonesurvived. Spring Severson: On Monday's collision on Interstate 5that closed both northbound lanes Is this why there is a crazy amount of traffic in town too? Frankie Monterrey: On Monday's collision on Interstate 5that closed both northbound lanes Greg Stevens, Publisher Chip Thompson, Editor EDITORIAL BOARD How to have your say: Letters must be signed and provide the writer's home street address and home phone number. 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