October 10, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
"it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt." That's what people used to say. But now it's fun and games when someone does. Get hurt.
From ricin poison sent to the Pentagon, and suspicious "white powder" sent to Sen. Ted Cruz' offices, to Sen. Rand Paul being viciously attacked, on his own lawn, by his Liberal neighbor.
Violence seems to have won the day.
The Anti-Trump Mainstream Media covers assaults to Conservative Republicans, but only half-heartedly.
To them, if it doesn't implicate the president in a negative way, the story gets kicked to the curb. And who cares if someones gets hurt in the process. If it's a Conservative.
But Americans don't like it. When they hear about Rent-A-Mob clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court while Judge Brett Kavanaugh is being sworn in, even "Deplorables" know that isn't normal.
Sadly all of this gets to be ho-hum, so that we get used to it when bad things happen to good people.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen were forced from restaurants by screaming protestors.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was threatened by a mob when she tried to attend the Mr. Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor."
And last week Ted Cruz and his wife were harassed and driven from a D.C. restaurant after the Kavanaugh confirmation, by protestors chanting, "We believe survivors."
But it's no big deal. At least that's what CNN's Don Lemon says.
"I think it goes with the territory." Lemon said. "That's what he signed up for. That's part of the deal."
After the Cruz' left the restaurant, "Smash Racism," a Twitter account affiliated with Antifa warned that Cruz, President Trump and Kavanaugh and "other right-wing scum are not safe."
"We will find you. We will expose you. We will take from you the peace you have taken from so many others."
But it's no big deal. At least that's what Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) says.
"Get up in the face of some Congresspeople," Booker urged his audience, a comment which Booker spokesman Jeff Giertz said "was taken out of context."
And you all know Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) endlessly encourages publicly confronting members of the Trump administration.
It's a message with which twice-defeated presidential candidate Hillary Clinton agrees. But the Trump half of the voting population, which Clinton still holds in low regard, believes this "rhetoric" is dangerous. That words have consequences.
So they understand why Sen. Rand Paul's wife, Kelley wrote an open letter to Booker in which she explained what it's like to be on the receiving end of the harassment he encourages.
Amidst calls from Democrats and the Left to increase politically motivated hostility towards Republicans, and after their address and phone numbers were doxed, Mrs. Paul said, "I sleep with a loaded gun by my bed."
And her husband said in a recent interview, "I fear there's going to be an assassination. Those who are ratcheting up the conversation have to realize they bear some responsibility if this escalates to violence."
And he should know. The senator was on the baseball field when Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson shot and nearly killed House Majority Whip Steve Scales (R-La.). And after the attack last July, Sen. Paul disclosed another threat. "This weekend the Capitol Hill police issued an arrest warrant," he said. "This man had threatened to kill me and chop up my family with an axe."
In advance of the critical mid-term elections, there is much counting going on, about taking the House, taking the Senate. It's uppermost in the minds of Democrats.
But no one mentions that if it were not for Capitol Police David Bailey and Crystal Griner, we would be looking to replace 23 Republican Congressmen.
Hodgkinson had a list that day. They were all Republicans. And he wanted to kill them all.
This week it was nice Sen. Susan Collins, generally an Establishment Republican, surprised everyone by voting to confirm Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
It was a brave stance. But one cannot help but wonder, was it only after her own life was threatened? Was it was only after she was harassed and called a "Rapist Supporter," that she made her decision? Did she finally realize this is the way Donald Trump has been treated every single day since 2016? Did she finally realize the dangerous world Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have created? And did she come to know how important it is for Republicans like her and members of his own Party, to support this president?
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
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