Posted on 11/22/2017 10:18:18 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
For years, we have been hearing that the Republican Party was on the ropes: when Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996; when Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012; when the tea party launched in 2009; when Texas Senator Ted Cruz and company shut down the federal government for a few days in 2013. (Remember when we were told that voters were going to "punish" Republicans in 2014? Yeah, that was right before they handed the GOP control of the House and Senate.) When Donald Trump roared into the primaries in 2015 and knocked out his more -- shall we say -- traditional GOP rivals one by one, and even (perhaps especially) since Donald Trump's election, the media's go-to narrative has been how the Republican Party is fragmented and crumbling.
Now we know that it's the Democratic Party that's rotting from within.
This isn't about the staggering loss of seats in state governments. It's about the sex scandals that have enveloped Hollywood -- and now the media and Washington. What's even more shocking than the reprehensible conduct itself is how intimately entwined these scandals are with the Democratic Party's politics, its operatives and their tactics.
Let's start with Harvey Weinstein. One of the biggest Hollywood fundraisers for Democrats, he has become the poster boy for the most egregious sexual harassment and assault. As journalist Ronan Farrow has exposed, Weinstein's modus operandi included hiring high-powered attorneys like David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner. Boies' law firm paid Black Cube -- an intelligence-gathering company Weinstein employed -- to dig up dirt on and silence potential accusers. According to Ronan Farrow, K2 -- another intelligence firm -- was hired by Elkin Abramowitz, also one of Weinstein's defense attorneys. K2's job was to ensure that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. -- a Democrat -- did not prosecute Weinstein after sexual assault charges were filed against him in New York. Vance was once employed by Abramowitz' firm, and has since drawn criticism for taking campaign contributions from lawyers "having dealings with his office." Weinstein's attorneys also had his victims sign iron-clad nondisclosure agreements that effectively covered up his behavior.
As I wrote last week, David Boies' name appears with some frequency in these accounts. PBS and CBS host Charlie Rose was fired this past week after eight women came forward with sordid stories of sexual harassment and abuse of power. Lo and behold, who has turned up as one of Rose's former attorneys? None other than David Boies.
New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush has also been suspended following accusations of sexual misconduct involving younger women at the Times and Politico. Remember Glenn Thrush? His was one of many emails released by Wikileaks that demonstrated how far in the tank the media was for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Thrush sent a potentially negative story to Clinton campaign manager John Podesta for approval before publishing. Thrush's email read, in part, "Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u (sic). Please don't share or tell anyone I did this."
The Wikileaks email dump also exposed that Donna Brazile -- at the time, a contributing political correspondent at CNN -- was feeding debate questions to Clinton in advance of the event. Brazile lost her position at CNN, and has now written a best-seller, "Hacks," in which she gives her take on why Clinton lost the election. Among her revelations: that the DNC was financially controlled and manipulated by the Clintons, to the political detriment of the other (and arguably more popular) Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders.
Brazile stepped in as DNC chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in disgrace, only to be scooped by Clinton and named "honorary" campaign chair. Wasserman Schultz's handsomely paid former IT staffer Imran Awan has since been indicted, and is suspected of selling sensitive data to Pakistanis and Russians.
Charles Manson's recent death brought disturbing reminders that even the Democratic Party's golden boy, Barack Obama, has unsavory alliances in his background. After the grisly murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in July of 1969, Weather Underground founder Bernardine Dohrn said, "Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room. Far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson."
Manson and his followers were murderous lunatics. Bernardine Dohrn (along with her husband Bill Ayers) was a communist revolutionary and domestic terrorist responsible for multiple bombings. Dohrn expressed admiration for the Manson murders. And Barack Obama launched his political career in her living room.
The Democratic Party -- at least at the level of national leadership -- is riddled through and through with questionable affiliations, political scandals, sexual deviants and interconnected teams of lawyers and paid spies protecting them.
It's time for the Democrats to clean house.
New leadership needs to come from the grass roots -- mayors, city council and school board members -- fresh faces and people who step up from every walk of life to cleanse their party of the rot that has corrupted it for the past 40-plus years. No more Clintons, Podestas, Obamas, media shills, communist agitators or community organizers.
The Democratic Party is dead. Long live the Democratic Party.
Townhall again?
Some members of Bernie’s Stalinist Sect won legislative seats in Virginia for the Democrats under his Communist front group, “Our Revolution.”
It's the Republican Party that is dead. The base killed it and is now trying to reconstruct it after slaying the thin globalist layer that co-opted it.
They’re only dead if we stop letting people like Cruz, Levin, and others give them a lifeline by effectively supporting Democrats, such as Hillary, at least during the Convention and for some time after.
Sure would be nice if people like them, who do have conservative credentials, actually learned to control their petty grievances and think about the country’s future a bit more often.
I would say that, after 2010, 2014, and 2016 they are seriously wounded but that just makes them all the more dangerous.
Levin is a Free Traitor™ and is not a Conservative in my opinion. He is a liberation and a globalist. The opposite of a Conservative. Cruz is a tiny bit better, but not much.
liberation = Libertarean
"...learned to control their petty grievances..."
Yea, you can make that case about Levin. I only said as much because he certainly sounded as if he supported most of our value...at least until he went all-in for Hillary.
It's a good resource for finding the latest opinion pieces from a variety of columnists without having to scour the Internet. Also it doesn't have to be excerpted so you can read the entire column without having to click on a link to follow it. Is there something wrong with that?
Wishful thinking. Whatever their intramural squabbles Dems are all progressives.
OTOH, the GOP is divided into camps with diametrically opposed agendas. The open borders progressive corportists and America First MAGA wings of the GOP simply have no common ground. Now it is clear that the GOPe prefers progressive Democrats and their policies to Trump voting base voters. If any party is in trouble it is the GOP, IMO.
“Exactly. We need to learn how to “circle the wagons” like our leftwinger opposition.”
I was just reading a comment on Townhall that was so good that I could have written it, but I didn’t.
The bottom line is that WE ELECT MOORE regardless of what we think and even regardless of whether they come up with REAL EVIDENCE, like police reports or payoffs. Once elected, if it can be proven that he really is a monster (which I seriously doubt, or they would have produced that proof), then kick him out of the Senate and let Governor Ivey at least replace him with a Republican.
In other words, we don’t even have to go to the wall like the Democrats did for Clinton, but we MUST keep that seat REPUBLICAN, as whoever is in that seat may well be the 50th vote for at least one, possibly up to 3 Supreme Court Justices.
The country SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED because of Moore...maybe Moore should be punished (assuming they somehow find some real evidence), but THE COUNTRY does not deserve to also be punished...it simply is not our fault, or even the fault of the voters in Alabama, since the Washington Post sat on this story until AFTER the primary.
Not even close.
Sex scandals should be in the forefront. Maybe the old geezers will retire. Most of them are rats-a good way to drain the swamp.
The Democrats always come back from the brink. Sometimes the Republicans help them.
As long as we don’t give away seats to the Democrats I’m fine with cleaning out the Republican trash, like Joe Barton today.
If it weren't for TRUMP, Hillary would be POTUS right now & maybe control of the Senate
I wish we would stop referring to the “democrat” party as the “democratic” party. The democrat party does not even truely belive in democracy. In fact referring to them as the “socialisr” or “communist” party world be closer to thier ideology.
The Dems are stronger than the sorryassed Grand Old Pussies party
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