Excellent insight
https://spectator.org/kavanaugh-collins-and-courage-under-fire/
Kavanaugh, Collins, and Courage Under Fire
Their refusal to surrender is an object lesson for the GOP.
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The most important words spoken by Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27 were these: “I will not be intimidated into withdrawing from this process.” By then, his family had received multiple death threats and he himself had been relentlessly slandered. But the judge refused to surrender. And the nominee was by no means the only victim of vicious Democratic attacks. Senator Susan Collins, whose vote would inevitably be crucial to his confirmation, was the target of constant harassment and her staff received numerous threats of violence. Her response to these disgusting tactics mirrored that of Kavanaugh:
When I have a caller who tells a young staffer in my office who does case work that he hopes she is raped and impregnated, we have really reached a new low … The people of Maine know me well enough that that’s not ever how I would make a decision and I am deeply offended by this effort.
The courage of Kavanaugh and Collins in the face of such attacks is an object lesson for the Republicans.
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It’s probable that the original Democratic strategy anticipated a withdrawal of Kavanaugh’s nomination shortly after they launched their premeditated smear involving Christine Blasey Ford and her implausible tale of sexual abuse. Their previous experience with the Republicans in the past decade or so would certainly have led them to expect capitulation. And, even when the expected surrender didn’t happen as quickly as planned, the Democrats and their accomplices in the media were probably still confident that the cumulative effect of the additional accusations they began trotting out one by one would soon cause Judge Kavanaugh to cave.
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It’s probable that the original Democratic strategy anticipated a withdrawal of Kavanaugh’s nomination shortly after they launched their premeditated smear involving Christine Blasey Ford and her implausible tale of sexual abuse. Their previous experience with the Republicans in the past decade or so would certainly have led them to expect capitulation. And, even when the expected surrender didn’t happen as quickly as planned, the Democrats and their accomplices in the media were probably still confident that the cumulative effect of the additional accusations they began trotting out one by one would soon cause Judge Kavanaugh to cave.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/10/echo-chamber-hurts-democrats.html
Echo chamber hurts Democrats
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The Intercept reported, “There Is No Grassroots Energy Rallying for Brett Kavanaugh. None.”
So Democrats decided to go all-in on the crazy in a last-ditch effort to stop Kavanaugh, figuring he had no supporters to lose, and everythingto gain.
Thus, Democrats rolled out Professor Ford and her accusation. They hoped to delay the confirmation until they controlled the Senate when they would suspend all judicial nomination votes until a Democrat became president again.
After all, the echo chamber of the Washington media told them Kavanaugh had no grassroots support.
The echo chamber also told them “Kavanaugh has become a symbol of anti-Trump resistance.”
Yep. Right alongside Stormy Daniels.
The problem with Washington is the Democrats tell the reporters what to write, which the reporters do, and then Democrats react to their own stories. It is like a party of crazy cat ladies walking down the street muttering to themselves.
Anyone who disagrees with them is ignorant, as well as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it, the whole basket of deplorables.
When you view your opposition as Hitler and the Nazis, you are unrestrained by social norms and decency. You can dox senators. You can threaten their children. You can shoot congressmen.
Many people see the Democratic Party’s embrace of violence and indecency as reminiscent of 1968.
I caution them. Hubert Humphreys should have won in a landslide. The economy was great. Johnson’s civil rights acts were popular. Goldwater was crushed in 1964 because he opposed civil rights.
But Democrats let the kooky rioters take over the country. Nixon stood for law and order, and won the day.
A half century later, Democrats are taking to the streets. Every night on the news there is some loud protest. The topic changes, but the anger is always the same. The people are always ugly both in behavior and attire. Democrats think this helps them. Maybe it does, but I see 1968 as a terrible year for Democrats.
Blithely dismissing nearly half the country costs a party at the polls.
No one in the Washington media’s echo chamber is smart enough to say knock it off.
Also, no one in the press challenges Democrats to defend their goofball ideas.
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Finally, Democrats continue to, in Dubya’s words, misunderestimate President Trump.
You would think that Dubya taught them. You would think that the Republican nomination taught them. You would think that the 2016 election taught them.
But, no, here they are still ridiculing a man who has handed them their ass every day since he entered politics on June 16, 2015.
One month ago, Bob Woodward rolled out a book that depicted the Trump White House as chaotic and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It was the third such book so far this year.
But if the man is so erratic and so incompetent, why is the economy doing so well and Kim Jong Un giving up his nukes?
Democrats need to understand that just because the Washington press does not make a big deal about President Trump’s enormous successes does not mean voters ignore it, too.