Posted on 10/11/2018 9:31:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
I didn’t expect it to feel so much like Christmas, but Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court Saturday really was like finding everything you wanted under the tree. It was a combination of winning and who lost that made it so sweet. The Constitution won, and the party of the whiny, screaming, hate-filled, violent mob was roundly defeated. In that sense, the country won. On an individual basis, there were many more winners and losers.
The Winners:
Brett Kavanaugh. He’s on the Supreme Court. While his name was smeared by shameless Democrats, he held strong and stood up for himself and his family. Liberals will always try to degrade him, but normal people didn’t buy into the crazy allegations from people who couldn’t remember anything in the first place, so these attacks will be contained to the media echo chamber.
Donald Trump. The president did what it’s likely no other president would have done – stuck by his nominee. Trump is a fighter, and he loves other fighters. Kavanaugh’s defiant testimony had to have appealed to him and justified his refusal to withdraw the nomination. No matter what else he does, returning the high court to one that serves the Constitution is a legacy no former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can claim.
Lindsey Graham. The senator from South Carolina sat there as every other Republican ceded their question time to the professional prosecutor, and when his turn came he’d had enough. He reclaimed his time and ripped Democrats for their sickening charade with a righteous anger and disgust that was long overdue. Following his lead, all the remaining Republicans followed suit. That may have happened without him, to one degree or another, but it certainly happened the way it did because of him.
Susan Collins. Maine’s senior senator was a wild card, and the key to final confirmation. Under extreme pressure, Collins found her spine. In a speech for the ages, Collins dissected the flimsy liberal case and stripped it bare. When she was done, only the most partisan of partisans were unconvinced. Naturally, since she denied the liberal mob their pound of flesh, she and her staff have been the target of death and rape threats, because “tolerance,” or something. Conservatives should rally around Collins in her 2020 reelection bid.
Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat could have made the vote a tie, forcing the Vice President to break it, but he didn’t. Simply being a Democrat does not protect anyone from their angry mob – you’re either with them all the way or you are their enemy. Manchin didn’t care, he did what was right rather than what was convenient.
The Losers:
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. Have you ever seen a more feckless group of adults? Not one serious question from any of them, just butt-kissing, speeches, and moral preening. Mazie Hirono was exposed as having the IQ of a small child, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker tried to out-rabidly-crazy each other in a preview of the 2020 Democratic nomination process, Dick Blumenthal and Sheldon Whitehouse could barely string together a coherent sentence as they dug deep into the important issue of Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook. And Dianne Feinstein came off as confused, unaware of how something in her possession made its way to the press.
Christine Blasey Ford. It might as well have been Christine Blasé Ford considering her testimony, if you can call it that. Millions of Americans watched this 51-year-old woman testify with the voice of a 12-year-old, riddled with up-talking and vocal-fry. Did anyone believe this is how a woman with 2 masters degrees and a Ph.D. actually talks to students? She works in a field where details matter, yet she couldn’t remember anything – not only from 36 years ago, but from a few weeks ago. She was also indifferent to the prospect of her lawyers either lying to her or on her behalf to the Senate. She had no fear of flying and claimed to not know she could have spoken with investigators in the privacy of her own home. A normal person would have turned to her lawyers upon hearing this and said something like, “What the Hell? Why didn’t you tell me this? I could have avoided this public circus.” But she didn’t, which makes you think. (She’ll now be showered with awards, book and movie deals, paid speeches, etc.)
Ford’s lawyers. They played a public game, either with or without their client’s consent, and lost. They’ll be heroes in liberal circles, which is all they really care about, but they failed their client and had it exposed on a national stage.
The liberal mob. The chants, the threats, the lies, the intimidation, none of it worked. Their temper tantrum failed, and the whole country watched them throw it. The move people see of what is essentially the enforcement wing to the Democratic Party, the worse their prospects for the future become.<
Ford’s lawyers. They played a public game, either with or without their client’s consent, and lost. They’ll be heroes in liberal circles, which is all they really care about, but they failed their client and had it exposed on a national stage.
The liberal mob. The chants, the threats, the lies, the intimidation, none of it worked. Their temper tantrum failed, and the whole country watched them throw it. The move people see of what is essentially the enforcement wing to the Democratic Party, the worse their prospects for the future become.
Hillary Clinton. She’s reemerged and is heading out on a tour with Bill for fun and profit. She’s also whining about how Ford was treated while ignoring her role in tamping down the “bimbo eruptions” against her husband in 1992 and her decades of enabling his abuse and philandering. At the end of the day, however, Donald Trump has appointed two solid Constitutionalists to the Supreme Court and Hillary has appointed exactly zero justices.
Overall, the biggest losers were liberals and their tactic of riling up an angry mob to keep the public in fear and in line, and the winners were the concept of due process, of innocent until proven guilty, the Constitution, liberty, and the American people. See, just like Christmas.
Derek Hunter is a husband, father of two (including one born just last Friday), and author of the book, “Outrage, INC.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood,” which examines the ways, both obvious and subtle, liberals use emotional manipulation to override rational thought and influence the American people. Order a copy today! And subscribe to his free daily podcast on iTunes to hear the news of the day every day!
Every Democrat have been shown to be EVIL and VICIOUS!
Excellent column by Derek Hunter.
Judge Andrew Napolitano is one of the losers on this.
“Every Democrat have been shown to be EVIL and VICIOUS!”
I don’t know about you, but we’re paring down our list of friends, including relatives who are RATs! Our life goes on much more smoothly now that we’ve made these “deletions” from our social order. We are also tuning out the Fox News programs that sully themselves with an array of balding Marxists who all seem to need a shave, and mouthy women who “just know” that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
AMEN!! I have decided to totally give up on Democrat friends and acquaintances.....they are SUPPORTING THIS EVIL!
That was a priceless line.
She's in there. Read the article.
"And Dianne Feinstein came off as confused, unaware of how something in her possession made its way to the press."
You are correct. I read through too quickly the first time.
He certainly had more integrity than Ms. Hirono. Still does.
The loathsome Fineswine seen in profile is HIDEOUSLY ugly! Comes from within, of course. This is the Senatrix who has tried for four decades to disarm us and take away our right to self defense. Well, she failed.
Wonder what she had on Murkowski, anyway.
BloomingIdiot and WhiteOuthouse (Morons CT and RI) could make Maxine look like a Rhodes Scholar...
What was Napolitano's position on all this? I don't watch TV.
I wouldn’t put Ford in the “losers” column, at least in terms of net worth.
Google “Anita Hill net worth” and you’ll see estimates of $2 to $6mm.
Seems that her lies paid off quite well. Ford can expect the same returns on her insipid, insane performance.
Mazie doesn’t have the IQ of a small child, though. She has the brain development of a small child. Many small children have much higher IQs.
Gotta agree with the observation on Trump. He stuck by Justice Kavanaugh, something GW Bush and any other Pub couldn’t have fled from fast enough.
You will hear over and over again how “fear” should not be a motivating force in our political discourse. Yet, what else do the leftists frauds who colluded and perpetrated this fiasco have left with which to achieve their political ends?
They are “reluctant terrorists”, now that the whole world knows their penchant for mendacity and criminal behavior. They can’t really even hide behind my tiny fig leaf of “reluctant” that I just tossed into the fray. They planned all the actions, and took George Soros money to fund them with all too readily. They are what they are, a Mob, and divorce from any semblance of “the Mainstream” should be the least of their fates.
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