By DEXTER DUGGAN
The newscaster came on the screen abruptly.
“We interrupt our regular programming this morning because of shocking news from the Republican National Convention.
“The party’s presidential nominee was to have delivered his acceptance speech to the delegates this evening. But a leak from his speech text caused such immediate and widespread outrage that he has renounced being nominated. There is no longer a nominee. The convention is in chaos.
“It was learned that the candidate planned to say in his speech that if his Democratic opponent is elected president this November, the federal government will require that naked men be allowed into women’s and girls’ public locker and bath rooms because of nondiscrimination policies.
“That accusation by the Republican is being blasted from all quarters as ‘insane,’ ‘absolutely crazy,’ ‘vile,’ ‘unthinkable,’ ‘contemptible,’ ‘horrid,’ and ‘despicable.’
“Stay with us for further developments as our commentators assess why Sen. John McCain ever thought he needed to level such unbelievable charges against Sen. Barack Obama,” the newscaster concluded in late summer 2008.
A startling scenario that didn’t actually happen eight years ago. However, the Obama administration’s assertion of this new bathroom “right” came to pass in 2016, in the final full year of Obama’s radical White House reign of unbounded lies and lawbreaking.
Nothing is beyond the reach of media-coddled left-wing political schemers. It’s all sail and no anchor to restrain their wild buccaneer adventures.
And when Obama did unveil his unbelievable bathroom edict in 2016, dominant media — which hypothetically would have said McCain was “vile” for foreseeing such a development — saw nothing to be worried about with the advent of the actual vile reality. Briefly acknowledging the edict, they preferred to look the other way.
Moreover, numerous powerful corporations that represent big-business respectability threatened in 2016 that states should suffer severe financial harm if they didn’t comply with the Obama administration’s mandate for degeneracy.
Republican voters’ even modest rejections of radical leftism are flayed in dominant media as hateful bigotry. But astounding leftist contrivances that couldn’t even have been imagined on the horizon a few years ago are cheered forward.
Not that the media think the general public welcomes such contrivances, which are tucked away from sight in the day’s news budget before you know it. Out of sight, out of mind.
Would bathroom invasions become an issue to hurt liberal Democrat politicians? Not if bigwig editors have anything to say, or hush up, about them. The same for border invasions. Keep them as quiet as possible.
The disturbing problem has been that criminal border invaders have a way of committing, um, crimes right in people’s faces — though not so much in the elite’s, um, securely walled and gated communities and chanceries.
It may seem to get boring, but talking about dominant media’s serious responsibility for the decline into decadence remains as true as ever.
When they keep producing their websites and broadcasts and newspapers every day that purport to alert people to what’s important and what’s not, media can’t absolve themselves from the results in society.
Their loathing of Republicans seemed to grow only more intense as they covered the GOP national convention in Cleveland. The sulfurous writing on the websites of The Washington Post and The New York Times would have scorched asbestos.
As for the nation’s future: Considering what has occurred just since Obama’s ascendance, what more awaits with radical Democrats in the White House for another four or eight years?
Executive arrogance and bureaucratic fiats already say that law-abiding citizens should be severely fined and flayed if they resist left-wing immorality. How about with more leftists appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court to harden such rules?
Many abortions already are done upon severely pressured mothers. Next: politically forced abortions?
When the Center for Medical Progress showed last year that aborted babies’ organs, real human organs, routinely are harvested for profit, the dominant media snarled in anger — not at cold-blooded abortionists but at truth-telling pro-lifers — and did all they could to get this issue out of sight, out of mind.
Considering what the federal government has contrived against bathroom privacy, nothing would be too bizarre for the Obamas yet to come.
Aborted baby organs as snacks for pets? Another tempting way to “normalize” the grotesque. Imagine the justifications being prepared to defend this “nutrition” in the name of “animal rights.”
Children removed from their parents’ custody before they can be taught traditional morality? Homes razed, as in Communist China, if an unauthorized baby is conceived?
We know where political power will continue to head if Democrats win the White House this November. And if they win, grimly lying lawbreaker and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will be even more emboldened that she literally can get away with any abomination.
Democrats used to mock GOP President Richard Nixon in the early 1970s for sweatily saying, “I am not a crook.” Lawyer Hillary, a young nemesis of Nixon back then, similarly insists today she’s no crook, even though she’s far more a lawbreaker than he.
But what if precedent-breaker Donald Trump wins the presidency? What loyalty would he owe to a GOP old guard that apparently intends to keep fighting him even after the party’s national convention, with senior figures like John McCain, Mitt Romney, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich all skipping the Cleveland coronation.
Yes, even the governor of the state that landed the quadrennial celebration of party loyalty couldn’t bother himself to show up. And Arizona establishment fixture McCain, nervously campaigning to retain his U.S. Senate seat, was heard on Phoenix radio news on July 19 saying, “I would much rather be here in Arizona than in Cleveland.”
In a perverse sort of way, George W. Bush may have been correct in confiding to a small group of former aides and advisers in April, “I’m worried that I will be the last Republican president,” according to the Washington Free Beacon conservative website on July 19.
He may have been expressing the establishmentarian view that the GOP can’t win without surrendering itself to globalists, leftists, and illegal aliens. Which would be incorrect. But Bush certainly may yet be proven right if the Republican old guard torpedoes the party rather than join the populist Trumpian waves of rejection of the Bush way of doing political business.
That would just mean that what calls itself the Republican Party fades away, not the people who’d decide they need a truer vehicle to achieve their positive goals and dreams for the United States.
The party’s demise would sadden many who’ve held high the GOP banner while fighting for conservatism. But their breaking point may have arrived as double-dealing national GOP leaders energetically furthered Obama’s own agenda.
They funded his Obamacare, illegal immigration, and Planned Parenthood while enabling his disastrous Iran nuclear deal, fighting for harmful trade legislation, and confirming lawless Democrat Loretta Lynch as attorney general, who was perfectly positioned to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her serious violations as secretary of state that endangered U.S. security.
Meanwhile, maybe many Democrats can look for a new party home, too, as Kim Davis did last year. Davis was the Kentucky county clerk and lifelong Democrat who left that party after she began to be persecuted for her sincere religious convictions against the Supreme Court’s invention of “same-sex marriage” as a constitutional requirement, favored by left-wingers.
“Lock Her Up”
It’s more than significant that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence began his Cleveland acceptance speech as Trump’s vice-presidential running mate on July 20 by repeating his stand that “I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”
The party has been important, but it can’t take precedence over a moral bedrock. Democrats dismayed with the prospect of disgracefully lawless pro-abortion fanatic Hillary Clinton as their party’s nominee may want to chew that idea over.
Meanwhile, Democrats who objected to GOP delegates chanting “Lock her up” as an exhibition of raw partisanship seemed to have forgotten that Hillary only recently was identified as a serious government lawbreaker by no less than FBI Director James Comey.
Comey, however, gave her a pass because she’s a powerful Clinton — which only underscored Trump’s complaint against preferential treatment for arrogant elitists.
Pence gave a solid, straightforward, confident acceptance speech lasting just over a half-hour that impressed this writer, even though I had been prepared to be disappointed by fumbles of human fallibility. Trump seemed pleased, too, as he emerged from the wings to offer congratulations as the Hoosier concluded.
The Indiana governor had built a solid reputation as a pro-lifer both in his statehouse and in Congress previously, although he erred on the religious-freedom issue last year. Pence, like some other people, apparently hadn’t realized how fierce the LGBT movement had become with big-business backing. It’s hoped he is better informed, and prepared, today.
The liberal Politico website said on July 15 that Pence “initially signed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA. He then backpedaled on language that critics feared could be discriminatory against gay people, but that some evangelicals felt was essential to defending religious freedom.”
Two Catholic conservatives whom The Wanderer contacted were pleased that Trump selected Pence. They replied before Pence’s acceptance speech.
A Smart Move
Northern California commentator Barbara Simpson said: “The junkyard dogs of the media and Democrat politics were hoping for Newt (Gingrich) or Chris (Christie), because they were ready to trash both of them to the limit of whatever decency they have — which isn’t much! They wanted destruction.
“Trump outsmarted them again. He picked a man with no scandal and a good family. Pence is a man who appeals to the mid-section of American life — accepted by traditionalists politically, religiously, and fiscally. His record is good and his state well-run,” Simpson said.
“. . . It was a smart move. He also picked a man younger than he, so no one can accuse the ticket of being a couple of old white men,” she said. “A couple of white men, yes, but so what? There isn’t a female or a minority who could hold a candle to what Pence brings to the ticket, nor is there one who would not be a target of hateful, racist, sexist slams during the campaign.
“Once again Donald Trump showed his real-life street smarts. He knows how to beat the opposition at their own game, and it appears he’s on his way to the White House — surrounded by people who will help get this country back on a path of survival,” Simpson said.
Rob Haney, retired chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party, headquartered in Phoenix, said: “Given the personalities, talents, and electoral-college considerations of the most prominent names mentioned for vice president, I believe Gov. Pence was the most intelligent selection Trump could have made. Gingrich and Christie have personalities too similar to Trump to attract voters who prefer a less bombastic candidate to balance the ticket.
“Also, the scandals attached to them would blunt Trump’s attacks on the Clinton scandals, and they would be unlikely to lend geographic support for a boost in the electoral-college total,” Haney said.
“Alabama Sen. (Jeff) Sessions has a soft-spoken campaign style and has no scandals, but Trump already has the South in his electoral-college bag. The bridge to Sen. (Ted) Cruz had already been burned. There was no plausible reconciliation story, and Trump already had Texas in his column.
“Gov. Pence brings the softer campaign style, has no scandals, is likely to positively affect the electoral votes in the Midwest swing states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, and he has the experience of working in Congress,” he said.
“The only serious obstacle to a Trump victory is the members of the Republican ruling class. . . . I have seen conservatives hold their noses while they voted for (Sen. Bob) Dole, McCain, and Romney, but let someone from outside the ruling class win the nomination and the Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) attack with a vengeance,” Haney said.
This issue of The Wanderer went to press before the GOP convention concluded.
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