Let's start with a point that has become glaringly obvious: It can only be harassment when there is an "R" after the name of the person being accused.
Sen. "Oldsmobile" Ted Kennedy killed a woman, and they call him the “Lion of the Senate” to this day.
His brother, John Kennedy, had several reported affairs, including with Marilyn Monroe, Judith Campbell Exner, and Mimi Alford. He remains a symbol of the party.
Bubba Clinton raped a woman back when he was the Arkansas attorney general. A blue dress would play large in his future.
These are hardly the only such examples, merely the more glaring examples off the top of my head. And none of these men suffered serious consequences for their actions.
Democrats, meanwhile, will blast anyone for not believing a 36-year-old assault allegation with no physical evidence and no corroborating witnesses. The case in question was Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation of a decades-old sexual assault against then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Democrats were all over this case, even going so far as to slam the FBI for not investigating Kavanaugh sufficiently, to give them a weapon to keep him off the bench. It was similar to what they did to Justice Clarence Thomas.
This has always and invariably been the plan of attack for the Democrats to be used against any conservative seeking a position of power, elective or appointed.
Such accusations have always been with us, of course, but for today's Democrat party, all this started gaining speed back in jolly old England before most of you were born, in 1964, with the Profumo affair. Conservative Secretary of State for War John Profumo was exposed for having an extramarital affair with a 19-year-old model, and the uproar eventually led to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's resignation. The left discovered that an easy way to tear down a political opponent is with a scandal. The charge doesn't need to be true; it just needs to be effective.
It is telling that we saw no such move against someone who is likely the least qualified person ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson. I'm in the habit of listening to recordings of proceedings at the SCOTUS, and the woman is very clearly out of her league — embarrassingly so. Funny thing, though: We never saw GOP senators digging into the woman’s high school yearbooks in an effort to discredit her. We did not see Republicans dragging up operatives from her erstwhile classmates, desperately trying to dredge up something, anything that would take her out of the picture.
What we do see is Democrats using whatever leverage they have to ram through the nomination process somebody whose only apparent qualifications are that she’s the right sex and the right color, and that she’ll tell us all that the Constitution says it’s okay to kill babies. Recall please that those qualifications were primary in Joe Biden’s description of Jackson when he announced the nomination and in his comments about her since. Meanwhile, he never said a blessed thing about her inability to define what a woman is.
You may recall Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings centered on such ignominy as a piece of hair on a Coke can. Oh, and in case you don't recall when Justice Thomas was hospitalized back in March of '22, it seems worth remembering the left's reaction, by way of Fox News:
Author Ellen Hopkins made no secret of her disdain for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Sunday as she tweeted in response to a report on the latter's hospitalization that she "wouldn't mind" if his health "forced him into retirement."
"Trying to maintain the high road. Don't want him to die. But wouldn't mind if his health forced him into retirement. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court says," the former journalist turned author of New York Times bestsellers, wrote in the now deleted tweet, including a link to an article in The Los Angeles Times reporting that Thomas had been hospitalized with an infection.
According to a statement from the Supreme Court, Thomas was hospitalized Friday evening after experiencing flu-like symptoms. He was diagnosed with an infection, is resting comfortably, and is expected to be released within a "day or two."
She deleted the tweet, of course, but didn't get away with it; it was both captured and reported.
The only way that Democrats will work against Democrats accused of wrongdoing is if they become an impediment to the march to the left. That way lies Andrew Cuomo, for example. Gary Hart — remember Donna Rice? Brock Adams. Gary Condit. Should we mention Eric Swalwell and the ChiCom spy, Fang Fang? And of course, there was Barney Frank. The list is endless.
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The usual sources tell us that the number of people swept up in such scandals is evenly split between both parties, that it is a bipartisan problem. Yeah, maybe, but for the most part, the only incidents we ever seem to hear about and that have actual consequences are those involving the GOP.
So, with all of that on the table, let's consider the matter of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Leave aside for the moment the countless demonstrated links between Epstein and the Democrat party. Are we really to believe that, with all of the Democrat efforts expended over the last decade against Trump — the multiple arrests, the multiple assassination attempts, and all the rest of it — that the Democrats wouldn't use their trusty tool of charges of scandal against him as well if there were anything to be found in the Epstein files? The patterns are too ingrained in them to believe such actions against Trump are not politically motivated, in the purest sense. You'll forgive me, I hope, if I don't stand up and salute this now hackneyed play.
