By DEXTER DUGGAN
With the November 3 elections having helped reveal how deeply the Democratic Party has been hollowed out by public revulsion at the misrule of Barack Obama, a former Republican conservative congressman urged the GOP to keep the pressure up.
Former California Cong. Robert Dornan said during a telephone interview with The Wanderer that congressional Republicans should send Obama bills every week that the radical president said he opposes, so the extremism he has imposed on his party keeps being exposed to the voters.
During the November 7 interview, Dornan, 82, a Catholic and former actor and talk host, declared, “Make him veto something every week!”
Dornan mentioned serious setbacks for Obama’s left-wing causes in recent widely watched elections, including in Virginia, Kentucky, and Texas.
Now a resident of Virginia, Dornan noted that state’s liberal Democrat governor, Terry McAuliffe, failed to flip Virginia’s State Senate to Democrat control in a push for more gun regulation, even though wealthy former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg poured more than $2 million into the effort.
“They really made a max effort and failed, which means there’s something happening in the electorate out there,” Dornan told The Wanderer.
Breitbart.com reported November 3: “It is a big defeat for McAuliffe, a close ally for Hillary Clinton, and a big defeat for New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg, who donated heavily to Democrats in the hope of winning the Virginia electoral fights on a promise of more gun control.”
In Kentucky, conservative GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin shocked pollsters by easily defeating his Democrat foe, who had led in the polls, while Bevin’s running mate, Jenean Hampton, a black, Tea Party conservative Republican, was elected lieutenant governor.
“A border state with a black lieutenant governor. This is fantastic,” Dornan said.
Hampton might become one of the dominant national liberal media’s worst nightmares, a role model for other emerging conservative blacks. The Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal website reported that Hampton “vowed when young that she would not ‘live a life of poverty. A huge part of what formed my opinions was the peer pressure that I got to fail’,” according to a Louisville Courier-Journal article.
Bevin, the governor-elect, stood up for Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who had been hammered by liberal media and jailed for saying her Christian conscience wouldn’t allow her to issue “marriage” licenses for same-sex couples after a 5 to 4 U.S. Supreme Court decision quirkily invented the constitutional mandate of “gay marriage” in late June.
However, Bevin’s Democrat gubernatorial foe, Jack Conway, opposed Davis’ freedom of conscience.
The Kentucky electorate “was more faithful to Kim Davis than the Vatican was,” Dornan said, referring to Vatican attempts to dodge responsibility for Pope Francis quietly meeting with Davis and her husband on his recent U.S. trip — as if papal aides thought Francis had something to be ashamed of for showing sympathy toward a woman punished for defending historic marriage.
Until recently, Davis had been a registered Democrat, perhaps like many other voters who hadn’t seriously noticed the sinful decline of their party. However, after her persecution began, Davis reregistered as a Republican.
Reuters news service quoted Davis on September 25 as saying: “My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we hanging on?”
How about that being a wake-up call to desperate Democratic Party strategists still trying to explain away November 3 election results that underscored the reaction against Obama’s moral and political fanaticism?
As for a non-conservative electorate in Houston strongly rejecting a “gay rights” measure that included access for the sexually confused to restrooms of the opposite sex, Dornan said, “This is a great not just tactical but strategic lesson for the Republican Party. . . . We have to take one aspect of the bill and hammer on it. . . . Pick issues that will resonate.”
Noting ethnic and racial minorities voting against the Houston law, Dornan said, “It’s the Jesus-loving, wonderful black pastors” who helped empower the effort. “They said, you aren’t going to have men going into my mama’s bathroom.”
Sexually disoriented activists demanded that the 2017 Super Bowl be yanked from Houston as punishment for the election result — as if voters had done something scandalous. Such is the state of the nation, where left-wing radicals think they’re entitled to trample anyone anywhere who dares oppose their minuscule groups’ far-out agendas.
Try to imagine pro-lifers demanding that the Super Bowl shouldn’t be played somewhere based on the number of abortions there.
In a November 4 post at the National Review website, attorney and writer David French said: “In more than two decades of conservative constitutional litigation and conservative activism, I’ve never seen the religious community more aware of the cultural and political challenges or more motivated to respond. Kentucky and Houston are the fruits of that response.”
The dominant media have continued to skew news coverage on behalf of Obama ever since he officially began his race for the presidency nearly nine years ago, in February 2007.
However, bad things have been happening to his Democratic Party that should raise fears about the mere dying shell that would remain if large numbers of blacks and Latinos began abandoning the party as other voters have. Think of the potential for bringing about this exodus due to the example of people like Dr. Ben Carson and Kentucky’s victorious Jenean Hampton.
On NBC’s Meet the Press on November 8, host Chuck Todd noted the huge, widespread Democratic Party losses since Obama won the White House.
The Washington Free Beacon website repeated Todd’s numbers:
“Under Obama, Democrats have lost 13 Senate seats and 69 House seats in Congress, and the results are even more staggering on a local level. Democrats have lost 12 governorships, including Kentucky last week with the election of Matt Bevin, 30 state legislative chambers and more than 900 state legislative seats. That’s the worst showing for an incumbent president’s party since the Richard Nixon years, due to the taint of Watergate.”
On the same program, Politico reporter Marc Caputo said that Obama’s reputedly powerful political machine is “a lie”: “The Obama political machine without Obama is no machine. They don’t win. That was a largely personality-based campaign in two different cycles.”
A “Cowardly” Strategy
Dornan, the former congressman, raised the topic of needing to send bills to Obama that the president opposes after The Wanderer mentioned new Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan’s CNN interview aired November 1. Ryan expressed doubt about being able to deny taxpayer funding to abortion giant Planned Parenthood — as if Obama, not Congress, has the power of the purse.
When Democrats held the Senate majority until 2015, Dornan recalled, Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid repeatedly spared Obama the embarrassment of vetoing popular bills and incurring voter ire. Reid would see to it that the bills simply were bottled up and never reached the president’s desk.
Does Ryan propose to use Reid’s same “cowardly” strategy to spare Obama embarrassment, Dornan asked.
Obama demands that Congress fund Planned Parenthood or he’ll issue vetoes.
Not including funding for PP in legislation would provide a public-relations opportunity to help advance a Culture of Life and expose the Culture of Death, Dornan said.
“The truth is this,” Dornan said. “. . . Nobody can get along with Obama in the Republican Party” because he’s a ruthless ideologue. “The only way we can get anywhere with him is to box him in.”
Whether conservative GOP activists in the House membership can strengthen Ryan’s spine against funding PP should provide a strong indication of where this speakership is headed.
Dornan said he can’t believe what Congress has become since he served there, ending in 1997. “Never could I ever have seen this incomprehensible capitulation to a radical president. . . . Make him veto one bill after the other,” forcing even the liberal media to report why Obama was rejecting the legislation.
Even though Paul Ryan is identified with promoting immigration amnesty, Dornan held out hope he’d change. “I think Paul is smart enough that if you sat him down and said, do you want to kill your party” by overwhelming it with Democrat-voting new arrivals, Ryan “would probably say, I never thought of that.”
Asked by The Wanderer if he thought Ryan actually never had this possibility occur to him, Dornan replied, “I think he must be aware of the irrefutable…logic of that argument.” But, Dornan said, if the question is, “Are you hopeful about Paul Ryan, I would say yes” regarding immigration.
Dornan said he has warned some Catholic prelates that “you are going to lock in abortion forever if you keep this open-borders system” that imports new Democrat voters. “As their eyes widen, it seems (prelates) don’t know this,” Dornan said.
The former congressman was straightforward in criticizing various Catholic bishops for failing to emphasize the importance of core Catholic moral issues, thereby enabling liberal Catholic Democrat politicians to reject these while claiming to be Catholic.
“The Catholic bishops in this country . . . have empowered Biden, Pelosi, and Kerry,” Dornan said, recalling that he once asked a cardinal, “Your Eminence, have you ever taken on Teddy Kennedy from the pulpit?”
In the absence of such rebukes, Dornan said, young Catholics studying politics think a position like the strongly pro-abortion Kennedy’s is acceptable.
Joe Biden is Obama’s vice president, Nancy Pelosi is House minority leader, and John Kerry is secretary of state.
“Kerry is taking our evil abortion policy worldwide,” Dornan said.
A Center-Right Nation
Another November 3 result that attracted national attention was San Francisco voters’ rejection of incumbent Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who defended sanctuary-city policies that were viewed as leading to the killing earlier this year of Kate Steinle by a repeatedly deported illegal alien.
Some conservatives thought this vote meant even San Franciscans were fed up with illegal immigration. However, other factors were involved. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that the sheriff’s victorious foe, Vicki Hennessy, had widespread backing at City Hall.
San Francisco commentator Barbara Simpson told The Wanderer: “It’s no surprise … Mirkarimi lost his re-election attempt, only gaining 31 percent of the vote. Thinking people would say that the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle, who was walking with her father along the waterfront, was reason enough.
“The killer is an illegal alien who’d been deported five times for various felonies and had just been released from SF jail, even though the feds had asked to be notified,” Simpson said. “But Mirkarimi wouldn’t do that because SF is a sanctuary city and he thinks it makes the place safer. The supervisors agree and, it appears, so do most of the residents.
“The real upset stems from a domestic-violence charge against Mirkarimi because he grabbed his wife’s arm and left three fingerprint bruises,” she said. “Now that really stirred up the locals — women’s rights and all that. The issue blanketed local news and talk radio.
“There was no end to it — but Kathryn Steinle? Not much concern about her rights — women’s and human. The average San Franciscan doesn’t even know who she was,” Simpson said. “By getting rid of the sheriff, San Franciscans think they’re getting even for his wife. But what happens to law and order on the streets is another issue — and Kathryn Steinle is still dead.”
Major errors in some polling before the November 3 elections also attracted attention, raising questions again about poll reliability. Constantin Querard, a conservative Arizona political consultant, told The Wanderer:
“Contrary to the mainstream media’s insistence, we remain a center-right nation, so voters should always be doubtful of polls that show states like Kentucky favoring liberal Democrat candidates by nine points over conservative Republicans, or states like Virginia favoring gun-grabbing candidates over candidates who support the U.S. Constitution.
“Quality polling is getting more difficult for a variety of reasons, including the move to mobile devices away from landlines, and the unwillingness of so many people to share their opinions. That is why campaigns need to ensure they are working with high-quality pollsters. Too many shady pollsters are making a lot of money these days producing junk,” Querard said.
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