Posted on 01/25/2020 5:10:13 AM PST by EyesOfTX
You go, Tulsi. – I’ve consistently called Tulsi Gabbard one of the two actual interesting candidates in the Democrat presidential field, along with Andrew Yang. That’s not because I agree with either of those two about much, but because they are the only two people in the race who actually speak their own minds rather than just parroting talking points written and handed to them by staffers on any given day.
Of course, the relative independence of mind displayed by Gabbard is one of the main reasons why she and Yank literally had zero chance of really becoming any kind of force in the race, since the Democrat nominee will ultimately be decided either by a brianwashed voter base or, in the case of a split convention, the party bosses who brainwashed them.
All that having been said, I greeted the news that Gabbard had sued the pantsuit off the Pantsuit Princess this week with great joy and amusement. Gabbard is seeking $50 million in damages for the Coughing Crook’s allegation that the Hawaii Congresswoman and Major in the Army National Guard is a “Russian agent.” Of course, this is an accusation that the Grasping Grifter has leveled at a wide array of her tormentors since her 2016 campaign went down in flames, one so scurrilous that no one outside of the corrupt news media takes it seriously.
But obviously was highly offended by the Hacking Hag’s accusation, which was made a few months ago, and initially responded by demanding a retraction. Since that was not forthcoming, she decided to file a defamation suit, and it’s hard to blame her for doing so.
Good for her. While she probably has little chance of prevailing, this is a tactic that more people who are attacked by Democrat politicians and their media toadies need to be employing. There needs to be a cost for this kind of scurrilous behavior, and the only way to really cost these people is through their pocketbooks. If nothing else, Gabbard’s litigation will cost the Fainting Felon thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees.
And hey, if the other side thinks you’re getting some traction with the court, they may even offer to settle for millions, as CNN recently did in the defamation suit brought by Nicolas Sandmann and the Covington Catholic school. $25 million is real money for a fake news network that barely registers in the ratings anymore.
This is the kind of thing Republicans need to be doing – finding creative ways to exact a cost from the Democrats and their media hacks for all the outright lies they continue to spread. Every member of the Trump family and Trump cabinet should have defamation suits filed against CNN and MSNBC and their on-air talent like Fredo Cuomo and Rachel Maddow.
After all, the Democrats have zero reservations whatsoever using government money to hire highly-paid lawyers to corrupt our political system; witness the way they have used a vast team of Lawfare-affiliated contract lawyers to concoct and manage their impeachment scam against President Trump. The Democrats have also used the Lawfare people to tie up major Presidential executive orders and regulatory actions in the courts for months on end throughout this administration. It’s a very effective tactic, even though they pretty much always lose in the end, when the anti-constitutional decisions issued by their Obama-appointee federal judges generally get overturned by appellate courts or the Supreme Court. The bad guys lost again this week with the finalization of the Administration’s revised Waters of the United States regulation, but delay is the goal.
On the conservative side, however, things are different. Other than the various defamation suits brought by Sandmann and his lawyers, the most visible efforts to use the courts to police Democrat abuses come from the folks at Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch leader Tom Fitton and his folks do great work, but it’s like a David vs. Goliath battle that’s being fought in that arena.
Conservatives simply must become more active in this area and develop an effective counter-strategy to Lawfare’s activities, if only as a defensive strategy in the event of the election of another Democrat to the presidency. As things stand today, Democrat politicians and their toadies in the corrupt media are free to make any accusation they want, no matter how scurrilous and unfounded it may be, without consequence.
Ironically, Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat presidential candidate, and Nick Sandmann, a high school student, are trying to show them the way. Is anyone watching and learning?
That is all.
How about suing a sanctuary city for wrongful death
The author says Hillary called Tulsi a “Russian agent.” I thought it was a “Russian asset.”
The former is sue-worthy; the latter allows for unwitting behavior and is more ambiguous.
I’d never vote for her but she doesn’t appear to be a neocon, warmonger. That’s probably her only plus for me.
Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard should switch parties and become a Republican...that is where she belongs. This woman would be a smashing successful hit in the GOP....and with a little changing of her left-wing ways...could easily become POTUS in a f ew years!!! Tulsi....do it, girl...join the GOP!!! She has no future whatsoever in the dying Democrat Party!!! Tulsi, go chat with POTUS, Trump!!!
She may appear to be a “middle of the road” dem, but believe me she would sign whatever Marxist garbage was sent her way.
It seems people are easily fooled by her “I’m not crazy like the others” ploy.
Man that 2A rally in Richmond was a real blood bath, er wait....Not.
She is very liberal and “progressive”, other than her stance on warmongering. We don’t hear enough about her liberal views. For this reason she would be very dangerous as president.
Or so you've been told.
I do not care.
I don’t care how hawt she is.
I don’t care that she is taking on her own party.
She supported Sanders. INDICTMENT!
Tulsi is not a ‘strange bedfellow’.
She needs to be taken out (politically).
I have problems with those that clothe themselves in self-righeteousness w/o any supporting proof.
Are you on drugs?
Seriously?
She’s given up on Iowa. She will cash out after New Hampshire.
“Tulsi Gabbard should switch parties and become a Republican”
Uh ... NFW. Conservatism isn’t in her heart. We have more than enough RINOs ruining our party.
To be fair the people in the race who speak there own mind seems to be Tulsi, Yang and Bernie. Everyone else are followers trying to say the right thing to get elected. And it’s not total either. They also do some pandering
The current weakness of this appraoch is that the court system, which has its own policing mechanism, are fundamentally aligned with the DEM party.
The courts will see to it that one side gets punished more by the process.
The law is like a gun. It is a tool. It can be used for good or it can be abused. The law is not inherently either.
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