Posted on 03/17/2016 7:43:52 AM PDT by Cyberman
The problem is that its totally "acceptable" in America to complain about practicing Catholics having "too much influence", but NOT acceptable to complain about practicing Jews having "too much influence". So Dems got away with whining about 5 out of 9 justices being Catholic when only 25% of Americans are Catholic, but the GOP will get crucified for saying Obama's pick will make SCOTUS 44% Jewish when Jews are only 1.5% of population.
The key thing is the constitution says "ADVICE and consent", so they should offer up their own "diverse" set of judges and dare Obama to consider them. Since there's NEVER been a Mormon, Pentecostal, or Orthodox Christian justice on the Supreme Court in US history, Republican Senators should offer some up and name names. Daring Obama to name more "diverse" picks would play much more favorably than simply opposing a "non-diverse" nominee and letting Obama cry "obstructionism".
And we all know there's 0% chance of Obama nominating any judge that Republican senators "recommend" to him, so then they can accuse Obama of being the narrow-minded bigot who wants to uphold the status quo on the courts.
I do not understand this thinking.
Ayotte is running against a democrat, no? And won't the democrat's position be "I'll vote yes to Obama's nomination!"? So Ayotte will say, what, "Look at me! I'll vote like a democrat, too!"?
This makes no sense. Is she going to try to out-democrat the democrat? Where's the contrast?
To the voter, if there is no difference, then vote for the real democrat, instead of the fake RINO one.
I doubt it.
They may just go on TV talk shows and voice their ‘objection’ to cover themselves and be happy that they dont have to take a vote.
No vote keeps them from having to take sides, covers them for their lib voters.
Kirk could easily switch without challenge. Collins would be more difficult. As leftist as she is, the ME Democrats are thoroughly Stalinist and consider her to be as right-wing as Jesse Helms. She’d never survive a Dem primary.
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When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 it triggered a series of events that became known simply as “Mississippi ’14“.
The entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider.
Their Machiavellian plan worked. In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with republican voters, but the paid-to-vote Democrats lifted Cochran back onto the throne in the elite Republican Chamber.
Against the desperation of a South Carolina victory for Donald Trump, and now a Nevada victory for Donald Trump, the DC Republican team have re-enlisted the exact same players to roll out a similar nuclear attack approach against the ‘outsider republican’.
Appearing on Bloomberg News the former Mississippi architect, Stuart Stevens, and Mississippi financier/bag-man, Henry Barbour, who carried out the Mississippi Strategy – openly admit their intent to use the same level of vitriol to remove Donald Trump.
(L-R) Stuart Stevens – Mark Halprin – Henry Barbour
See the Video Here (at 23:10) as Stuart Stevens and Henry Barbour are assembled again to discuss the process of “taking down Trump”. Stevens fully admits to the Mississippi 2014 strategy and how it will work in 2016 against Donald Trump.
So how do they do it? Simple, it’s war – a thermonuclear political war. There are no boundaries, there are no rules, there is nothing too far, there is nothing held back.
They run attack ads, they’ll shout names and make up malicious smears; they’ll follow the candidate around to make noise at rallies; they lie about anything and everything; they’ll pay anyone and everyone to assist, and they don’t care if the high-information voter knows what they are doing; it’s all part of the overall scorched earth plan.
They’ll pay people to do and say anything, ANYTHING. Winning is all that counts. Destroying the opponent is all that matters. Every means justifies that end. Period.
The GOPe have already hired actresses and actors to appear in the attack ads and to make personal appearances, as actors, during Trump events. The hiring agency is Talent Direct Agency (TDA) – The actors and production teams are working out the script details right now.
More than likely the construct begins tomorrow with the CNN debate. Expect a full media assist from an ideological corporate media empire who also has skin in the game and corporate ownership who also see candidate Donald Trump as a risk.
A thrilled attendee for the bloodbath, NRO’s Charles Cooke, puts it this way:
[…] Tomorrow night, as they stand on either side of Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz must find their resolve and all-but-machine-gun the man to the floor.
Without breaks for water or silence for applause, they must explain that Trump is an entitled mess whose business record is so questionable that he managed to bankrupt a casino; that he is an unashamed fraud who didnt even wait to be elected president before folding on Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, exactly like the feckless Congress he is running against; that he is feigning religiosity to appeal to people he believes are rubes; and, above all, that whatever he may be pretending now, he has spent a lifetime screwing the little guy.
They must repeat verbatim his previous words on amnesty; they must outline in detail how his policies will make life worse for everyone; and they must point out that a Trump nomination designed to mix things up will result, eventually, in more of the same.
In the meantime, conservatives who are not running for president must ensure that every spare dollar is spent attacking Trump. Melt down the fences if you have to; we need long-range bombers here.
If Donald Trump can flood the airwaves with his nonsense, his opponents can counter it incessantly. And while they are at it, they can tie him up in court, just as hes trying to do to Cruz. There are a good number of just asking questions ready to be put to them, among them Trumps mother was Scottish, can he really be president? and Trump ran a host of scams designed to rip off the poor; surely one of them would like to sue him?
Thus far, part of Trumps media strategy has been to say something outrageous and then to move on before it can be rebutted or fact-checked. Why are his rivals not doing the same thing to him? Why, moreover, are the men in charge of the big guns all-but flirting with the snipers on the other side? (read more)
Perhaps now you can better appreciate why Mitt Romney is joining the effort and throwing anything against the wall to see if it will stick:
On Wednesdays Your World on FOX News, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told Neil Cavuto that Donald Trumps tax returns may prove he hasnt been honest about his money.
Romney suggests the bombshell could include him lying about his wealth or that he has not made all those charity donations he claims to have made. (link)
You see, it doesn’t actually matter if there’s any truth to the claim, the goal is to create an absurd hurricane wind of inbound attacks driven with increasing ferocity by the corporate media who will demand the candidate to respond.
In Mississippi 2014 Chris McDaniel was not racist, nor was there anything remotely linking him to anything racist; the goal is to push the candidate away from their campaigning, the truth is irrelevant.
Once the GOPe force the candidate away from campaigning, then they begin selling the false story and using the actors/actresses, or preachers, to deliver an outcome.
By the time the next debate on Fox comes around, well, it’ll be peak DEFCON-5 thermonuclear political button pushing because, quite simply, they have nothing to lose.
Shepard Smith on FOX right now again saying Trump is a racist and egging on some idiot Republican GOPe garbage who now is calling Trump a racist, and now that Democrat Sheeple Smith hack is comparing Trump’s “promises” as impossible as what was promised to the Tea Party supporters aka we are all suppose to give up and let the establishment win since we are already defeated (psychological warfare by Smith).
Screw this POS, I just turned him off and am going to a doctor’s appt., no way does this POS effect my moral and in fact this sort of lame tirades from such as Sheeple Smith, BLM, communists, Democrats, et all just makes me more determined to see that, after all is said and done, they are going to have a bad day.
Thad Cochran? The same Senator who was unable to debate his opponents or answer questions from reporters during his last campaign? Who, according to witnesses, gets lost in the Capitol Building? If this puppet is involved look to see if the man standing next to him has his hand up Thad’s butt. Try to see if his lips move when Cochran starts to talk. If he’s as talented as Jeff Dunham he might even be able to drink a glass of water while Thad is speaking. I always love that routine...
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