Another Nominee, Another Circus?
On Monday, the 21st of September, Rush Limbaugh suggested that Republicans in the US Senate should broom confirmation hearings in order to avoid another Bork/Thomas/Kavanaugh spectacle, in which Democrats use the opportunity of the hearings to wreck the nominee, either to stop them, or to damage them so that even once confirmed, the new justice will feel duress to rule in certain ways in order to avoid severe criticisms. The other fundamental problem is the complete unfairness of demolishing a person, imputing all sorts of nefarious behaviors and character flaws without the least bit of evidence. Rush suggested this was the way to avoid all of that. President Trump retweeted a Hill piece discussing this suggestion:
WATCH: Rush Limbaugh encourages Senate to skip hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee https://t.co/QPMLljl3ce pic.twitter.com/uQqj5ytigQ
— The Hill (@thehill) September 22, 2020
On Tuesday, the discussion from callers to Limbaugh’s show came to be about why a hearing should go forward. The theory they expressed was roughly that this would give the so-called “suburban women” a chance to see Democrats at their vile best. While true, Limbaugh asked in response: If they haven’t seen it by now, what makes you think this would make any difference. Callers implied that the reason is because the nominee is likely to be a woman. For those of you inclined to agree with these callers, thinking that a female nominee’s mistreatment at the hands of Senate Democrats would damage Democrats, I have two words for you: Sarah Palin.
Yes, you can name any number of conservative or at least Republican women who were nominated to various positions in government who have been mistreated by Democrats. You can also list a large number of women who were destroyed by Democrats’ political ambitions, aims, and deceit. Watching how Betsy DeVos has been treated gives you an inkling. Whatever I may think of her views on foreign policy, Condoleeza Rice has been repeatedly attacked by the Democrats. The way the left goes after Melania Trump should serves as some clue to their despicable nature. The manner in which Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and a long litany of women who Bill Clinton infamously abused to one degree or another should remind you how Democrats will treat relatively powerless women. In point of fact, there’s no shortage of women who Democrats have gleefully accosted, when those women, either by inclination or circumstance, stood in the path of Democrats’ political aims. Among all the women the Democrats sought most thoroughly to destroy, none fell under more unrelenting, vicious attacks than 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Governor Sarah Palin(R-AK.) Even since then, their attacks on Sarah Palin have never really relented, especially any time she ventures into even vaguely political territory. Here was an accomplished woman who had genuinely reformed her state’s government, removing corruption, canceling stupid government programs, and enlarging the treasury of the State of Alaska.
She was a unique, genuine American character, a patriot, and a woman of many talents, but both her political inclination and her circumstance as a Republican Vice-Presidential nominee meant that the whole of the media, and all of the popular culture, never mind the political establishment of Washington DC would set out to destroy her. Even when she made speeches after it was clear she would not seek the Presidency in 2012, still the media vermin descended upon her like locusts. The popular culture continued to mock her, and to this very day, there are people who believe she said “I can see Russia from my House.” This was, of course, a quote from Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, in a spoof of what Gov. Palin actually said in an interview on ABC with Charles Gibson. Asked about Russia, she remarked:
“They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”
To this day, half or more of the country believes she said “I can see Russia from my House.” This is the devastating nature of the popular culture, controlled by elitists from the coasts, who are able to propagandize the American people so effectively.
This was scarcely the only instance of their war against Sarah Palin. It went on and on, and they were not satisfied even after the McCain/Palin ticket went down to defeat. They pursued her to Alaska where she continued in her gubernatorial capacity until the entire left-wing and DC establishment had made it impossible for her to continue. Using ridiculous legal filings, they harassed her from office, because she could not afford to fend off all of the insane legal goings-on against her. She could not be permitted to merely go back to governing Alaska. That might lead to a day upon which she might rise up to run for President on her own. That was unconscionable to the left, and therefore, her complete and utter destruction was mandatory. I want to know what naive Republican or conservative believes that any nominee to the Supreme Court put forward by President Trump will be spared any of that. I want to know what demon on our own side knows the sort of campaign of destruction that will be waged against the President’s nominee, but sees this as an opportunity to “expose the monstrous nature of the Democrats.” So we’re willing to throw a nominee onto the bonfire of the Democrats’ political vengeance machine in the hope that it will become a funeral pyre? Are such people mad? Are they willing to sacrifice another American to the Democrats’ endless campaign of personal destruction? Why? Have we become so vile as the Democrats and the whole DC establishment that we are willing to subject yet another person to this demonic behavior?
Ladies and gentlemen, we will never get the sort of country we desire so long as we’re willing to go along with this sort of thing. There is no requirement for hearings. We already know how Democrats will treat the nominee. We already know the sorts of lies and smears that will be levied against the nominee, and we already know its purpose: To either harass the nominee or the White House into a withdrawal of the nomination, or to so thoroughly damage the nominee or her legitimacy that she is permanently damaged in at least some part of the broader culture. It’s beyond unfair. It’s monstrous, and we must say so. More to the point, the probable nominees in question have already been through recent hearings, and their background checks have been conducted repeatedly. There’s no point to gin it up again just to give Democrats an opportunity to create a circus and a freak show.
I’m calling on my Senators, Cornyn and Cruz, to move to dispense with any hearings, and I strongly suggest you contact your Senators to do the same. Rush is right: There is no purpose to these hearings except to give the Democrats an opportunity to demolish and/or denigrate a future Supreme Court justice. It’s time to clear our midst of the sort of people who think of this in terms of a supposed political advantage. We mustn’t submit to that sort of behavior, and we mustn’t suffer our fellow Americans to be the unjust target of such despicable attacks. Whomever the President nominates, let us have a straight up-or-down vote. We have enough circuses. There’s no need to do this to another American. To this day, I hold the media and establishment villains in the highest contempt for what they did to Sarah Palin, and to this very day, I’d leap at the chance to vote for her for President.
I believe in Justice. I cannot bear to watch the Democrats immolate another good person as yet one more sacrifice to the political demons they worship.
