Posted on 08/17/2014 2:10:27 PM PDT by Hojczyk
John and Scott have commented on the indictment of Gov. Rick Perry. As they note, it fits a pattern of politically motivated indictments of prominent Texas Republicans.
The Perry indictment also fits a pattern of harassment via the legal process of prominent Republican governors: Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, and now Perry.
What do these four have in common? Why, they all are (or were) potentially viable candidates for the national office.
Invocation of the legal process against Christie may well be warranted. (So too with Bob McDonnell, whom I didn’t include in my list because, although once vaguely mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, his prospects never approached those of the other four). In the cases of Palin, Walker, and Perry, the charges seem plainly to have been ginned up in the hope of derailing the governors’ prospects for national office.
This sort of thing is standard operating procedure in countries like Russia and China. Now it is becoming part of the Democrats’ playbook.
However, America remains a two party country. And two parties can play the same game.
Attacking rising Democrats through bogus legal proceedings is a game Republicans shouldn’t play under any circumstances. It seems inevitable, however, that Republicans sooner or later will retaliate in this fashion.
There aren’t many promising Democratic governors. But Julian Castro served three terms as mayor of San Antonio. Now he’s been elevated to the cabinet and is being groomed as a possible vice presidential candidate in 2016. He aspires, no doubt, to become the third installment in the Democrats’ identity presidency trilogy (Obama, Clinton, Castro).
Harming a person’s reputation for political purposes should require time in prison.
Indeed, most rat tactics are nothing new, including unconstitutional use of executive orders (FDR again).
The left has weaponized every entity it controls to the destruction of America and the right. They fight dirty and for them the ends really do justify the means.
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