Posted on 06/30/2018 10:30:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In these hyperbolic times, it's easy to fall into overstatement. Somehow, the farm-to-table dining preferences of Sarah Huckabee Sanders or the subliminal, sartorial messages of the first lady have become the subject of breathless debate. Cotton-candy controversies swirl for a moment and then disappear.
The replacement of retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is not like that. It is, to paraphrase former Vice President Joe Biden, a big doggone deal. So big that Biden's old boss, former President Barack Obama, has descended from his Olympian remove to fire up the troops Thursday.
He urged Democrats to quit moping, avoid complacency and stop focusing on the shiny, ephemeral, show-biz aspects of politics. (The fact that he said this at a Beverly Hills mansion after being serenaded by Christina Aguilera was, I suspect, an irony not lost on Mr. Obama.)
Everything is at risk: from a woman's right to choose to have an abortion to a baker's right to refuse to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Heck, the very right to have a same-sex wedding could be threatened. Voting rights, civil rights, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, free speech rights, gun rights -- all come before the court....
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They could come back overnight if they repudiated government idols and embraced godly liberality. Because much of the modern right also embraces a caricature.
As your old buddy Carville used to say: “It’s the economy, stupid!”
Talking about Carville in 2018 is like talking about Colonel House, James G. Blaine or Stephen Douglas. LOL
Thanks for the warning..
And his nickname is “Forehead”...he’s been a lost soul for a while!!! LOL
It’s not about Carville, it’s always about the economy.
I know-it almost makes you want to throw them a line-anchor first!
Oh, yeah! He’s right!! You should see them when them when they really go nuts!! Lucky for us, they’ve been completely rational up this point. /s
“Irony not lost on Obama.....” Obama is incapable of sensing irony.
Stroke of the pen law of the land Bengals crying because ethical governance is back.
This is because the Left has replaced the Church, the Bible, even the Judgment seat of Christ with the decrees of the Supreme Court, absolving themselves of their sin and guilt. Thus their terrible outcry. and why we are all called haters.
Start to fight like crazy? Ya mean, the gloves are going to come off and the dems are going to stop being so nice to Trump?
The ugly weasel is signalling that leftists are going to cause damage and bloodshed in the streets.
That message is 3 years late....bwahahahaha
Wonder how voters are going to like rioting all summer by the Dems?
“crazy” is why they’ve lost 1000+ seats over the last few elections. Some of the ways Democrats normally fight include
* lie about conservatives/republicans
* lie about capitalism
* lie about socialism
* claim millions will “literally die” if we elect “literally Hitler”.
* enrage groups like BLM, antifa, Ferguson, Baltimore, or the congress baseball shooter until violence starts
* give a wishy-washy condemnation of the violence but claim it will continue if republicans are elected
What will be different if Democrats add “like crazy” to the way they fight? They’ve seemed pretty crazy to me for quite a while. I don’t know how much crazier you can get than burning down or destroying YOUR OWN neighborhood to make a political point. Destroying a republican neighborhood would be “less crazy” if that’s the direction Begala is hoping they go. Succeeding in assassination attempts of congress, court nominees, or the president would be more competence but not more crazy.
Maybe Begala has just reached a new level of self-awareness and is not calling for more extremism. If so, I congratulate him for that personal growth. The next step is to learn how to fight “like caring, knowledgeable humans” rather than “like crazy”.
They stopped once?
.........................when was that?
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