Posted on 06/29/2018 5:43:09 AM PDT by pgkdan
Two New York Times writers have offered evidence that the actions of the Russians and former director James Comey may not have been so crucial to the defeat of Hillary Clinton after all, calling into question the raison d’etre of the Mueller investigation.
First, Charlie Savage on June 28, commenting on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, noted that Donald Trump promised to name conservatives to the high court. Savage then acknowledged, "Court-focused voters helped deliver Mr. Trump's narrow victory over Hillary Clinton...." (Actually, the win was not "narrow." Trump got 304 electoral votes to Clinton's 227.)
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Political reality may be forcing the Times to downplay the Russian election-meddling theme for more mundane explanations: that Clinton lost because voters in 30 states feared the impact of a Clinton win on the Supreme Court, and also because she didn't try harder, winning only 20 states plus the District of Columbia.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wouldn’t make too much of this.
I voted for Trump — I “helped” him win.
Court-focused voters supported Trump — they “helped” him win.
The NYT may still think that the Russians hacked the election — also “helping” Trump to win, and thereby justifying Mueller.
Sounds a lot like “let’s not run her again, ok?”
There is no evidence Russians were influential at all, must less “crucial” in Hillary’s loss. This argument doesn’t need to be undercut, because there’s nothing supporting it in the first place.
Since when did evidence matter to moonbats?
Liberals don't base beliefs on logic or reality - they base beliefs on self serving 'feelings'...
Their polling data obviously indicates that this is a BIG LOSER that is now only hurting Democrats.
Will be interesting to see if the Witch Hunter takes the hint.
Court focused voters better show up in November!
I fear Rinoitis might keep many home, in bed, with a blue flu plague of epidemic pestilence sweeping the nation.
I tried explaining to a friend of mine what I saw happening between 2008 and 2012, with Conservative Christian and within them the “Evangelical” voters.
At first glance you would have thought that vote belonged to someone like Ted Cruz from Texas, and if he did get a substantial part of it in the primaries, many of them would be as turned off by Trump as the GOP candidate as “insufficiently Christian”, just as many Evangelicals I heard from were about Romney in 2012.
We had tried to preach to people that we were not electing the president of a “national church”, but someone who will be respecting of our rights, including rights that belong to our “freedom of religion”.
My example to my friend - who generally could not understand why so many Conservative Christians supported “a man like Trump”, was the reecent election win of a GOP candidate in Nevada who is probably the state’s largest brothel owner, and he runs a string of topless bars as well. And he got a good part of the “Evangelical” vote. My freind equated that, with disgust, with the Christian vote for Trump.
I told him it was but not in the way he thinks. I said many Conservative voters are waking up to the dire need to more than vote for “someone like me”, to vote for someone who will elicit the kind of governing I want to see. I don’t have to have a desire to have the person over for a backyard barbeque at my house. I want to like how they are doing in office. That’s the kind of thing some Evangelical voters in Nevada told interviwers in the district of the brothel owner. They liked how he said he wanted to govern, and how respectful he was of our freedoms and Liberty.
Trump’s personal life and background may not demonstrate a “Christian saintly” history, but FINALLY, to Christians what Trump does or does not deliver, that they may agree with, is the priority in our votes.
I asked him how was this different than what Liberals (like him) have always done to get the persons who will deliver the policies they want. Look at the philanderer Clinton with three women who till this day say he raped them. Did it matter to the Dims? No, and it still doesn’t. Dim loyalists still love him even more than Hillary. Why? He (mostly) delivered the things they liked where it counted.
Trump will be remembered by American Conservative Christians not so much because of who he was as an individual, but because of what he delivered.
That we have someone delivering a better judiciary is something I have been screaming to Conservatives about, above many other issues, for decades, because presidents come and go but Supreme Court rulings can last for decades if not forever.
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