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Rand Paul warns of 'assassination' peril after Kavanaugh confirmation...
Fox News ^ | October 9, 2018 | Gregg Re

Posted on 10/09/2018 9:03:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Following the bitterly partisan, acrimonious confirmation battle over Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., warned in an interview on Tuesday that heated political rhetoric has the potential to turn deadly.

"I fear that there's going to be an assassination," Paul told a Kentucky radio show. "I really worry that somebody is going to be killed, and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation ... they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence."

Paul's comments came the same day former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton declared that Democrats "cannot be civil" with Republicans any longer.

Paul's wife, Kelley, revealed in a Breitbart News interview on Friday that she sleeps with a "loaded gun by my bed," has updated her home's security system and has "deadbolts all around my house." Kelley also wrote an op-ed published by CNN in which she called on Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., to tone down his rhetoric; in June, Booker suggested his supporters “get up in the face of congresspeople.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: democrats; kavanaugh; randpaul; trump
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To: hardspunned

Who puts a pillow over their own head?


21 posted on 10/09/2018 9:45:32 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaughhi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I worry about that, too. Not for me, but for prominent Republicans.


22 posted on 10/09/2018 9:51:34 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: Notthereyet

True.


23 posted on 10/09/2018 9:53:40 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bingo. SAME tactics - different choice of primary victim group.


24 posted on 10/09/2018 9:55:41 PM PDT by GOPJ (Last time the American job market was this strong, astronauts were going to the moon.Lydia DePillis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrat leadership acts like a crime family... If everyday citizens who happen to be democrats want to regain their party they need to stay home and NOT vote.

Let the party fall apart and new people can start over in a few years.


25 posted on 10/09/2018 9:58:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (Last time the American job market was this strong, astronauts were going to the moon.Lydia DePillis)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If a Republican politician or one of the conservative Supreme Court Justices is, God forbid, assassinated or attacked and injured with a lethal weapon, the Democrats will lose 50 seats in the House. They will deserve to be disbanded as a party, but I stand by that 50-seat prediction. Of course, I sincerely hope and pray that such an event never occurs. I’d much rather beat them to a pulp on the issues, not over someone’s dead body. However, in this less than sane environment, anything is possible.

Those not old enough to remember it ought to look at the history books to see what happened 50 years ago. I was a kid in 1968, but I remember funerals for 2 prominent people, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and cities burning literally all over the country, riots broken up with fire hoses and vicious dogs, construction workers beating the crap out of hippies, etc. I also remember my father buying several guns that summer. Those were scary times, and it looks like something similar is returning.


26 posted on 10/09/2018 10:21:47 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amy Barret has adopted Black children. The Democrats will accuse her of Slavery. Of using the children and abusing them. Just wait and see.


27 posted on 10/09/2018 10:24:29 PM PDT by heights
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To: Mears

“The Dem leaders would be totally to blame——they could have stopped this stuff early on-——but not ONE word from them,not one.”

EXACTLY RIGHT!


28 posted on 10/09/2018 10:53:41 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: GOPJ

“Democrat leadership acts like a crime family”

That’s exactly what President Trump is calling the Democrat party - the party of crime!


29 posted on 10/09/2018 10:56:12 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you think the Left is batshit crazy now, wait until it dawns on them that Ginsburg’s term will almost certainly end through age or incapacity while Trump is President with a GOP held Senate. AKA not a damn thing they could do about Trump nominating whoever he pleases.

And then Sotomayor is fat and has diabetes, so it’s possible that she too will medically retire while Trump, or his GOP successor (yes that will happen also, they’re not just looking at the next 6 years of a GOP President, but 10 more years minimum and probably 14 or even more) is similarly situated.

The future: Kagan staring down 8-1 majorities, her relevance dwindling to being the swing vote between conservative and libertarian justices.


30 posted on 10/09/2018 11:17:24 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Rurudyne

and they tried to kill Scalise...


31 posted on 10/10/2018 12:21:32 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: novemberslady

Tried?


32 posted on 10/10/2018 12:24:49 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaughhi)
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To: bray

Yeah, it gave President Lincoln quite the headache in his day...


33 posted on 10/10/2018 1:10:13 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: Notthereyet

Gonna be a long 4 weeks ain’t it?


34 posted on 10/10/2018 1:15:01 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Notthereyet

“...always a chance of voter fraud.”

It’s a given, not just a ‘chance’.


35 posted on 10/10/2018 1:44:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: Mears

In order to sit in the Senate Gallery during these debates you have to have a pass signed by a senator. The protesters were PLACED there.


36 posted on 10/10/2018 3:34:46 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Pollard

“Gonna be a long 4 weeks ain’t it?”
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Pollard, 4 weeks that will seem like months!


37 posted on 10/10/2018 3:58:34 AM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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To: carriage_hill

“It’s a given, not just a ‘chance’.”
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carriage_hill, I stand humbly corrected. Unfortunately, I believe you to be correct! :(


38 posted on 10/10/2018 3:59:49 AM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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To: Jimmy Valentine; Mears
In order to sit in the Senate Gallery during these debates you have to have a pass signed by a senator. The protesters were PLACED there.

That's why Code Pink protestors were always allowed in despite being recognized bt the out landish pink costumez, they had Congress members protection.

Bit of history as to when and why passes were instituted for security reasons.

Timeline of 1954 US House of Representives Shooting

On the morning of March 1, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists—Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irving Flores Rodriguez—boarded a train from New York City for Washington, D.C. Since 1898, when the United States took control of Puerto Rico, the status of the island has been debated. Over time, three main viewpoints took shape concerning Puerto Rico’s relationship with the United States: territory, state, or independent nation. The nationalists who traveled to the Capitol supported the most extreme interpretation of the latter—one which called for violence to draw attention to their goal of complete Puerto Rican independence from the United States....(read more at link)

"Five Congressmen were wounded in the shooting, including Representatives Alvin Bentley of Michigan, Kenneth Roberts of Alabama, George Fallon of Maryland, Ben Jensen of Iowa, and Clifford Davis of Tennessee. Bentley, the most seriously injured remarked, “I next remember being hit with what felt like a terrific blow on the chest. I didn’t realize it was a bullet. It felt more as if somebody had taken a club and socked me on the chest and knocked the wind out of me.”

The four Puerto Rican nationalists—Lebron, Miranda, Cordero, and Rodriguez—were indicted, tried, and convicted in federal court for their actions. They received sentences ranging from 16 to 75 years in federal prison. More than two decades later, President Jimmy Carter granted clemency to the shooters. (Yet another reason to wish for an expedition departure of Carter to another plane)

The House shooting followed the 1950 assassination atempt on President Truman by...radical Puerto Rican Nationalists...read all about it.

39 posted on 10/10/2018 4:06:12 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Mark17
They already tipped their hand in regards to Amy Barret - none other than Diane Feinswine criticized her for her "religious dogma."

They'll go after her catholicism and being pro-life.

40 posted on 10/10/2018 4:08:10 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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