The naysayers who think Trump's pounding of the Hunter Biden scandal is a mistake -- One set of rules for them, another set for us.

As Democrats do all they can to keep the Hunter Biden influence-peddling scandal out of the press, there are also conservatives, who, citing conventional wisdom about political scandals, argue that President Trump is going to lose the election by pounding on the issue.

Here's Frank Luntz, as reported by The Hill:

Prominent Republican pollster Frank Luntz blasted President Trump and his campaign on Tuesday for focusing on Hunter Biden in the stretch run to Election Day, calling Trump’s campaign the worst he’s ever seen and saying the president’s advisers should be “brought up on charges of political malpractice.”

Speaking at a briefing for the British strategic advising company Global Counsel, Luntz said Trump’s advisers have “their heads up their asses” if they think Hunter Biden will be a winning issue for them.

Here's National Review's Isaac Schorr:

The Trump campaign’s decision to make Hunter a centerpiece also took away valuable oxygen that could have been used in far more productive ways. Trump’s path to victory is an issues-oriented election, not one based on the character of the two major-party candidates. The American people have already decided what they think about these two men; Biden will win the empathy gap every single time. Trump’s strength lies in his record: a string of foreign policy successes, a booming pre-coronavirus economy, a sane energy policy, a promise to continue to treat China as the geopolitical rival that it is. A campaign that made the Andy McCarthy case for the president would have been far more successful than the one that has relied upon Rudy Giuliani and a wayward soul like Hunter Biden.

And here's another one from The Hill, headlined:

GOP to Trump: Focus on policy

“...One set of rules for them, another set for us...”

SO true. Just look at what Nancy and her idiot friends did to the President with nothing LIKE as much corroboration of ‘evidence’ or authentic documentation.

THEY ‘impeached’ President Trump and will try it again, with nothing at all LIKE the kind of evidence the President has right now on that s*&thead Hunter!!!

Trumps weakness, at least in the polls, is white educated suburban women. Therefore, the way to exploit Biden's corruption is to connect it to the welfare of white suburban women's families.

Why is your nephew overdosing on fennel? Why are your favorite stores being boarded up? Why does your son have no job after college? Why are violent mobs threatening to rage into your suburbs? Why do you feel in danger merely commuting to work?

Because Joe Biden sold good jobs to China and wrecked our cities to line his own pockets.

Because if reelected Joe Biden will sell your husband's job to China.

The purient sex angle has got to be played for its moral impact on suburban women and because once scandalous photos hit the Internet, the interest in this story will grow exponentially overnight.

One must think long and hard to find an incident when DjT’s instincts were proven wrong. Time and again.

Sometimes, he couldn’t enforce his instincts —ie. bouncing Fauci & countering COVID panic —without massive blowback.

And, at the first debate he may have overruled his advisors who wanted Joe to blabber on, but that’s just a guess. We know no criticism goes unchallenged.

I trust his instincts

“THEY ‘impeached’ President Trump and will try it again, with nothing at all LIKE the kind of evidence the President has right now on that s*&thead Hunter!!!”

One of my biggest disappointments with the GOP this election cycle is that voters were not reminded of how useless and wasteful Nancy and her cohorts were over the last two years, chasing a fraudulent “scandal“, and ultimately illegitimately impeaching the president for it.

“The Do-Nothing House” should have been the centerpiece of the campaign to take it back.

Instead, the effort has been focused on individual races, crossing their fingers and hoping they’ll take back a seat here and there.

put the criminal aspect aside, it’s a political dumpster fire that Blago would say is f’ing golden. Just keep drip-drip-dripping salacious details every day, keep it in the news and more people will hear about it (Americans love juciy gossip about sex) and it will cause more people to be disenchanted with Biden and either stay home or vote Trump.

If justice happens to be done to Hunter and (much less likely) Joe, it will take time to build the case and still may depend on a feckless FBI and/or local prosecutor and we’ve seen that movie before.

The important thing is not putting a scumbag drug addict in jail, the important thing is getting President Trump re-elected and holding the Senate.

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