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Home Front: Politix
He Fights
2017-07-19
[Toenhall] My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are "beneath the dignity of the office." Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized "collegiality" as John McCain? We tried propriety ‐ has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don’t find anything "dignified," "collegial" or "proper" about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything "dignified" in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything "statesman-like" in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was "articulate" and "polished" but in no way was he in the least bit "dignified," "collegial" or "proper."
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Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#6  This pretty much summed up my feelings. The meltdown of Narrative after Narrative helps.
Posted by: Charles   2017-07-19 18:15  

#5  After a while we tired of the old Globetrotters and Washington Generals gig. Something with a little more 'reality' appeals to a lot of people.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-19 16:57  

#4  My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum.

Hell no, that's why people voted for him. They wanted a "Junk Yard Dog" to take on the crooks and thieves.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-19 09:35  

#3  Ooops! Forgot the link.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-19 02:15  

#2  You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-19 02:13  

#1  Won't you lay down and bare your throat for us?
Posted by: gorb   2017-07-19 01:01  

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