Posted on 04/23/2019 8:48:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For cripes sake, if you’re going to waffle your way through an answer to this question, at least serve up a tastier waffle than a trite, vaguely condescending dismissal about having a national “conversation.” In fact, don’t waffle at all: You should be able to formulate a firm position on whether incarcerated felons should retain their voting rights or not. Join Team Bernie in the conviction that voting is a sacred privilege of citizenship and prisoners remain citizens no matter how evil their actions. Or join Team Buttigieg in the belief that choosing to plant bombs in a crowd means you forfeit certain civil rights, like getting to choose the next leader of the free world.
Or at least muddle through with some compromise position in which nonviolent felons get to vote but the violent don’t.
Harris has a special problem in answering questions about prisoner rights, though, because she’s a former prosecutor, which is both an asset and a liability to her. It’s an asset among centrist Dems and potentially in the general election; you can imagine some “return to law and order” pitch at Trump’s expense. But it’s a liability to progressives who want to hear contrition from her for, among other things, locking up nonviolent drug offenders. However she answered on the Boston bomber question would have been treated as a small proxy for that — if she’s Team Bernie then she’s pissing away her tough-on-crime cred but if she’s Team Buttigieg then clearly she hasn’t made as much “progress” on how to treat convicts as she claims. As you’ll see, she shrewdly used the question to emphasize her commitment to voting rights generally, which you would think would have given her enough cover to say, “But Bernie’s wrong in this case.” The fact that she decided to punt shows you how insecure she is about her record as California’s AG vis-a-vis the left.
Says Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was murdered in the Parkland massacre, “Should my daughter’s murderer be allowed to keep the rights that she’ll never have?” Maybe CNN can ask her that one next time she’s on.
In a better world she would have said what she really feels, which is that Bernie must have a head injury to insist on making terrorist voting rights a hot topic in the Democratic primary. But that’s his blessing and curse as a politician, that he seems to feel obliged to state his honest opinion when asked a policy question even when it’s a gift-wrapped Election Day present for Trump.
Two clips here, one of her answer on prisoners voting, the other of her answer on gun control. Jazz mentioned the latter earlier but you should watch the clip to see how far Harris goes. She talks about issuing an ultimatum to Congress to do what she wants on gun-grabbing or else she’ll do it via executive order. That’s a direct descendant of Obama suddenly deciding after five years in office that he could grant temporary amnesty to DREAMers because Congress wouldn’t act legislatively and Trump deciding after two years in office that he could appropriate funding for the border wall via emergency declaration because Congress wouldn’t give it to him. We have presidential candidates, credible ones, openly vowing to dictate to the national legislature what U.S. policy will be and expecting — correctly — that that’ll appeal to voters in what’s supposed to be a republic. It’s a nightmare in the making.
Kamala Harris: “We should have that conversation” about allowing the Boston Marathon bomber to vote from prison. pic.twitter.com/TOqIlKYuQY
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) April 23, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says she wants to ban “assault weapons,” which means all semi-automatic firearms
Harris says she “will give” Congress 100 days to pass radical gun control laws or else she will use executive action to ram through her agenda pic.twitter.com/Ly8dpQisld
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 23, 2019
Yes Kamala- you and bernie have your ‘conversations’ abotu that- by all means- keep bringing up how you two believe that scumbag should be allowed to vote- please- you will be doing the republicans a HUGE service if you do-
ARROGANT, also.
Maybe she would like Kate Steinle’s killer to vote.
Comrade Kamala continues croaking.
No. Not now, not ever.
End of conversation.
Or Dylan Roof.
Or William Hayden, the child molester.
I heard a lady make a good point on a radio show this morning.
What if any of us were charged with a crime, and as we went on trial, the state marches in a prisoner dressed in orange and sits him on your jury? What if the whole jury is dressed in orange and shackled?
Would we want that? I don’t think so.
Two postings, near each other. kamala will take guns from us within 100 days of being elected. kamala will let the Boston muzzy murderer vote. Sorry, kamala is not the girl for me.
She would sell this country out in a heartbeat.
A caller to the Chris Plante show this morning asked if folks were ready to have convicted criminals being brought forth, in orange jumpsuit and shackles, to serve on juries in criminal trials. She said that since jury duty selectees are drawn from voter roles, then this now enfranchised convicted criminals could be called for jury duty.
Steve, you don’t go to Saint Marks Cathedral, do? The “not who we are” quote is pure Episcopalian, a church I chose to leave 20 years ago. My particular parish liked to use “that’s not what we’really about”, another stupid, over-used bit of nonsense!
Let’s have a conversation on how it must feel to have half your lower leg blown off like the one casualty I saw of that bombing.
“Not what we’re about”....I fat-fingered that, sorry.
ATPJNK.
I'm with you on that, but I'd like to ask Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris if they think every constitutional right should apply to felons, since they think voting should. By their logic the right to keep and bear arms should also be a right felons were entitled to, certainly after they served their sentences. I am sure they think the 1st and 4th amendment applies to felons, what about the 2nd?
Rape a 4 year old.....still get to vote from prison!
You’re right, She will be the VP on the Rat ticket.
Trump should tweet: “the real conversation should be which democrat would the Boston bomber vote for?”
Democrats are the Party of insanity!
While we are having THAT conversation, why not a conversation about giving felons back their right to own firearms? Sure you and Bernie are ok with that.
If the Boston Marathon bomber is voting in Massachusetts, it won’t have any effect whatsoever.
Exactly.
Well the 2nd Amendment is not an “absolute right” as they say, which means it’s not a right at all, but the right to vote Democrat most certainly is an absolute right that can’t be infringed in any way, much like the right of a woman to murder a baby for her convenience.
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