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Some
pundits in the blogosphere are looking at the allegations of sexual misconduct –
re: Judge Roy Moore and Sen. Al Franken – through the prism
of a deliberate anti-Trump strategy. Another crazy conspiracy theory? Well, it’s
not like the mainstream media hasn’t moved in lockstep before to achieve a
desired political outcome. We know most of the networks and big print media are
still having their own temper tantrums over Trump’s win over Hillary - over a year ago.
Here are
three bloggers on the bigger picture behind the feeding frenzies over Judge Roy
Moore / Sen. Al Franken / Harvey Weinstein --- as well as leading Democrats starting
to throw the Clintons under the bus (starting with “Sen. Kirsten Gillibranddisavows Bill Clinton now that he can’t help her anymore”).
From
Thomas Lifson at American Thinker:
HEADLINE: Al Franken's career is collateral damage
for the Dems on the way to getting Trump
Lifson outlines his
hypothetical strategy:
The logical steps for getting Trump are clear.
Step one: Establish that sexual harassment before taking office is
sufficient grounds to remove someone from office. This is the necessary
predicate. Franken's departure from office will establish the purported
sincerity of the Democrats in establishing this brand-new principle. As a
number of observers point out, nobody has ever been thrown out of the Senate
for actions prior to taking office.
Step two: Apply this doctrine to Roy Moore if he should win the Senate
seat for which he running. If he loses, triumphantly announce that even
the reddest of red states agrees that previous misbehavior is dispositive in
removing an incumbent.
Step three: Throw Bill Clinton under the bus. Rend garments, pull hair
out, and otherwise demonstrate what looks like sincere regret that Bill Clinton
remained in office thanks to rock-solid Democrat solidarity, now that there is
no incumbency to protect. Hillary, who has become a drag on the party, is
thus to be intimidated into quietly caring for her grandchildren.
This is a dangerous assumption, because Hillary will fight back,
and thanks to her access to FBI files while living in the White House, she has
access to a lot of dirt on many Democrats as well as Republicans, not to
mention whatever other dirt she and her machine have come across in the
intervening decades. She fights dirty and still has plenty of friends in
the media.
Step four: As the hysteria mounts, following the blood sacrifices,
demand that President Trump be impeached for actions before he took office.
Failing that, tell voters that by hanging onto office, he is disgracing
the nation and telling little boys to grope their little girl classmates in
first grade.
.
. .[Lifson concludes]
So we have a situation in which something approaching mutual
assured destruction could be unleashed on Congress, but with heavier damage
likely on the Democrats' side of the aisle. In this circumstance, the
only winners would be those Americans who want to drain the swamp. A
wholesale bloodletting on Capitol Hill would not be the worst possible outcome,
so long as the new legislators are wisely chosen in sufficient numbers.
Now is the time to start planning those candidacies.
From
The Sparta Report:
There are lots of ways in which this could play
out, of course, but we are certainly in for a ride over the coming days and
weeks as the Democrats try to ride the current “sexual misconduct” hysteria,
and turn it to their advantage in their relentless quest to destroy Trump by
any means they can find.
From
DC Whispers:
According to whispers,
it wasn’t just taking “political shot” at Moore that motivating the McConnell
camp. They want Roy Moore out of the way and replaced with someone of
McConnell’s choosing, or even Moore’s Democrat opponent, Doug Jones, a man
whose career is linked to the Bill Clinton administration. Moore would be a
vehement defender of POTUS Trump and his policies. If McConnell is to succeed
in laying the groundwork for an impeachment trial and vote in the Senate, he
will need fewer senators like Roy Moore to contend with.
. . .
The motivation to go
after Trump is there. What is left is a simple matter of numbers. Getting rid
of a Roy Moore and replacing him with an anti-Trump senator would give
McConnell that much more leverage to make his dreams of eliminating Trump a
reality.
Don’t
forget what Mitch McConnell and the GOPe did to Chris McDaniel vs Thad Cochran in Mississippi.
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