Posted on 01/28/2025 4:31:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
To me, whenever all the Democrats line up united on an issue, as the Democratic Party senators did for the vote on the nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, I always have a question. And that’s different from the question of why a guy like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would vote with the Democrats.
Just what was their problem with Secretary Hegseth? I mean, it’s not as if he’s going to blow up the Department of Defense and replace Boeing and Lockheed with a brilliant Elon Musk startup and compromise all the senators’ contributions from defense contractors. Seriously: how long do you think it would take Elon Musk to produce a world-beating fighter jet from a standing start? Okay, okay, I know. Elon wouldn’t do that. He would repurpose his Starlink satellites to confuse the radar of the enemy’s planes so that they would shoot each other down.
So what was the problem?
I got the sexual allegations against nominee Clarence Thomas back in 1991. Supreme Court justices get to move the needle, and I am sure that if our Democratic friends knew what Thomas would become in his more than 30 years on the court, they would have found a better accuser than Anita Hill. Sexual allegations are much simpler than an open discussion of the issues.
And I got the sexual allegations against nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. Not another conservative on the Supreme Court! Inconceivable! Sexual allegations are much simpler than an open discussion of the issues.
So what was the problem with Hegseth?
Here are two ideas. First, the Democrats are the Inner Party. When you are the Inner Party, you get to flood the zone with sexual allegations and don’t you forget it. Second, it is much easier to blacken a candidate
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes it was a Crusades era Jerusalem cross.
The same thing that was on Jimmy Carter’s funeral handout.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/y~sAAOSw8GVngDwu/s-l960.jpg
Yes it’s correct. I saw the clip.
smirk ;-\
Yeah, babble the troll has been booted for NeverTrumping more than a few times.
I read the entire article and I think you must have also. From the article:
“It is much easier to blacken a candidate with sexual allegations than with a campaign based on the issues. However, experts agree that a Nazi salute beats a sexual allegation hands down.”
So basically, they want to talk about anything but the issues. The author says the issue is NATO.
“All the Democrats and three RINO senators voted against Pete Hegseth because of NATO. And it’s much easier to concoct sexual allegations than have an open debate about the relevance of NATO in the 21st century.
No president has had the cojones to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we don’t need no stinkin’ NATO. Even Donald Trump has skated on the issue.
Until he appointed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.”
How much money do we spend on NATO? I’m sure that it’s a lot. It’s a lot to give up.
The Warsaw Pact is no more. The Soviet Union is no more. I think it’s time say we (Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Pole II, Lech Walesa) won. All I am saying is give peace a chance.
O.k. I’ll say some more. Putin is Christian and must see the threat posed by Islam. Putin and Russia could be natural allies of the United States. I think Putin sees more clearly than most Americans that Western civilization is on the brink. I would rather see a united Christendom that a fortress America. Israel must also be part of the alliance for many reasons, including moral and theological.
Dafuq you on about?
Deus Vult is Latin, not German.
"Deus vult (Latin for 'God wills it') is a Christian motto historically tied to ideas of Divine providence and individual interpretation of God's will."
The phrase has been used from the original Crusades in the 1000's, to modern Christians. That it happened to be used by Nazi's and extremists is not associative.
You might as well say that, since the Nazi's used punctuation, that everyone who uses punctuation is a Nazi.
Do better.
It’s all Ukraine. At a minimum Hegseth has an open mind on the issue and is willing to find out what REALLY has happened there.
And that scares the hell out of those implicated.
Re: 4 - the tats are not material in the end. Claims of alcoholism in that position are always a concern.
He had his hearing (hearings were largely useless), the vote was taken. He has his chance to lead the DOD and will be measured on that.
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