Smearing Sessions

After Donald Trump’s surprise victory last November, many observers assumed that former New York major Rudolph Giuliani, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, would be the pick for Attorney General. It turned out to be Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a favorite target of the left. The 70-year-old grandfather is a person of no color, which in the politically correct ethos counts as a strike against him. Sessions is also from southern Alabama, and as he noted in the January 10 hearings, his accent betrays him. Critics had been making that a target for a long time.

The 70-year-old grandfather is a person of no color, which in the politically correct ethos counts as a strike against him.

The witch hunt against Sessions is as much (if not more) ethnically and culturally motivated as is is political. The PC Left's objection to Sessions has little to do with anything specific that Sessions said or did while holding public office, rather, it's the fact that in the liberal imagination, a conservative white Southerner has basically become synonymous with "Klansman."

I remember what now must be decades ago watching this CSPAN thing and avidly interested in a vote on legislation that had to do with abortion, specifically about fines and punishments for those that impeded a ‘young lady's’ right to snuff out a life with ease. An ease that this legislation visited upon potential protestors against her action in the secure knowledge they would be heavily fined and imprisoned lest they ‘ruin her choice.’

I remember it was a House controlled by Democrats. I remember men - just men, no Republicans, pleading with the Democrats to have some sense of decency. To me, it seemed like a visitation from the gas chambers at Auschwitz in those last minutes of entering the ‘showers.’ To no avail. I think it was the first time I said to myself Democrats are truly evil.

The vote was perfunctory and emotionless as the Democrats proceeded with their evil, maybe with just a hint of “we have the power now ” smirk. In the end, the legislation enacted virtually made it a crime to stand across the street from an abattoir (under certain circumstances

Today, here - NOW! I want that same sense of helplessness and forlorn feeling to fall upon Democrats in OUR choice of Sessions - albeit for a much more righteous purpose. I want them totally defeated and scattering like roaches exposed in the dark night by a kitchen light.

...it's the fact that in the liberal imagination, a conservative white Southerner has basically become synonymous with "Klansman."

Reinforced for generations by Burbank TV and Hollyweird movies.

Jim, you and yours would enjoy the Upstate. If not in the mountains then on the SC coast. It's as safe here as anywhere.

Thats a good question. Either way it doesn’t matter. They should start out with a straight up vote. That would eliminate the political theatre. Dems have “NOTHING”. They lost. The only way they obtain a minimum of “anything” is if the Reps capitulate. Maybe this is the best year as they know Trump can, and will, shut them all down. Why bother to deal with this false process. Vote them in so they are preparedon 1-20-17.

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