By DEXTER DUGGAN
Achievement doesn’t start by sleeping under the goal posts, or walking the distance of one foot to reach home plate. What’s the point of competition if there basically is none? You’re not fulfilled by coming up empty. Sports celebrity Tim Tebow grew up knowing that.
A video shows Tebow, also an impressive Christian philanthropist, recounting that God told his surprised parents to add a fifth baby to their family, which turned out to be him. Tebow said this was a difficult pregnancy for his mother, and he was expected to be stillborn. Doctors recommended an abortion, but his parents said no.
Their lives eventually worked out well. However, think of what the world would lack if he weren’t around to make his inspirational videos. Biographical information says the “Tim Tebow Foundation exists to bring Faith, Hope, and Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need,” often involving medical or adoption aid and assistance for orphans.
When God gives an assignment, don’t necessarily expect it to be done easily. That’s a basic message in the Bible. He doesn’t only seek consent to begin the work, but also faith, trust, and grace-aided courage to see it through. Once Tebow’s parents initially said okay about having that fifth baby, God didn’t just hand them a trophy, say, “You win,” and tell them to enjoy the rest of their lives.
Heroic perseverance applies to many areas of existence, and certainly during the current grave challenges to the U.S. and world presented by impenitent bad Catholic Democrat Joe Biden and his deeply immoral administration.
What kind of politician except one who takes his counsel from the netherworld would, as Biden did, make one of his top priorities as his administration began the subjugation of women to hellish gender dysfunction and the command that society accept this attack on scientific reality? Biden’s eagerness for permissive abortion also defies science and reflects political fanaticism.
LifeSiteNews.com posted on February 3 that in an interview, Joseph F. Naumann, archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas, “called on bishops and laity across the country to ‘pray and fast’ for Biden so that he will ‘cease attempting to confuse people about Catholic teaching by trampling on the sanctity of human life while presenting himself as a devout Catholic’.”
Naumann, who also serves as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said, “Jesus, who is life itself, has already won the victory over sin and death. We know, therefore, with complete and utter confidence that life will be victorious. Adversity only makes our love purer and more powerful,” LifeSiteNews.com reported.
The pro-life news service quoted him: “We must continue to speak to President Biden, as well as all Catholics, and even all Americans, about the truth of what abortion is. Abortion is not something to be celebrated, and it is not health care. It is the intentional killing of a child. To participate in abortion or to promote abortion is a grave evil.”
Biden appears to be a weak man who got where he is by riding on others’ backs, or being carried across the finish line. Without corporatist powerbrokers and a crazily dishonest dominant media, he’d be an old fellow with time on his hands, leafing through scrapbooks at home. In fact, maybe that’s what he is and does, except his home now is the White House, not Wilmington, Del.
How safe is the U.S. with Biden’s crew of Obama retreads and cardboard characters exercising a semblance of command? Americans, like most people, prefer seeing strength and having confidence in a leader, which is another reason to think Biden didn’t fairly win the election that put him in the Oval Office. You know, that roundish room where Biden blinks and whispers, “What’s this you’re asking me to sign?”
That’s reason to think neither Biden nor his administration will be eligible to serve a full four years.
If you’re examining the public face of an administration, compare President Trump’s resilient, knowledgeable press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, with Biden’s often-lost Jen Psaki, who quickly was dubbed Ms. “Circle Back” — her own words for her inability to provide answers in the briefing room.
Americans didn’t come to give their support to Trump because he was an entertainment-show cult figure, but because he showed the strength to deliver, and often got it right. If he’d frittered away their confidence, he wouldn’t have had those campaign crowds roaring their approval at airports from Wisconsin to Florida as his first term headed for judgment on November 3.
And where was Biden during those days? Being the Wizard of Oz, that little man behind the green curtain in the basement while media prestidigitated phony marvels on his behalf.
An interesting analysis posted February 2 at the Washington Examiner by Kristen Soltis Anderson noted that Trump’s endorsement of candidates for office while he was in the White House didn’t guarantee them a primary-election win if voters thought someone else would be a better fighter for victory. In other words, being more Trump-like than Trump.
She wrote, “When push comes to shove, ‘but they fight!’ even trumps Trump,” and provided the examples of victories by Colorado’s Cong. Lauren Boebert and North Carolina’s Cong. Madison Cawthorn.
The Democrats’ and dominant media’s favorite brand of the GOP was, of course, just the opposite: the “beautiful loser” they’d admire like antique dishware until it was time to get serious during the campaign. Then throw that dishware out with the dishwater. Think George H.W. Bush vs. Bill Clinton, Bob Dole vs. Bill Clinton, John McCain vs. Barack Obama, Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama.
How often the reigning Republican strategists would counsel their candidates to avoid the “social issues.” These were said to be divisive, or voters weren’t ready for them, or there were more important topics needing attention.
Remember when presidential candidate Dole said in 1996 that he hadn’t read the GOP platform? The implication was that the silly social issues in there didn’t deserve attention. Hardly the way to inspire a candidate’s base, but a way to ensure being a beautiful loser, which Dole turned out to be.
Judicial Inventions
I was in San Diego while the GOP delegates gathered there for the convention that year. At least I saw some of them having a nice barbecue out on the sunny Silver Strand beach, about the meatiest result that would come to pass.
Meanwhile, the other side’s warriors would ram through revolution, including national permissive abortion, “same-sex marriage,” transgenderism, none of which the public was demanding and all of which exceeded anything they would have sought.
Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam and New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke indulgently of “abortion” of babies after they were born. As 2019 began, Cuomo celebrated a new state law to this effect, to the cheers of New York legislators, and he lit up high-profile buildings in merriment over this atrocity.
Voters in dozens of states had said marriage must follow the traditional heterosexual model. But sex revolutionaries, rather than retiring from the scene for a half-century or more in hopes that media could transform people’s beliefs by then, kept right up their battle until the U.S. Supreme Court, obedient as it often is to that side’s wish lists, whomped up another new constitutional “right” in 2015.
These sorts of judicial inventions were popular with dominant media, so no “firestorm” or “national outrage” or “widespread fury” about their being imposed on the nation was conjured for headlines in media propaganda studios.
If the court rulings had gone the other way, as nervous judges probably realized, these media would have nailed their scalps to the wall, then sewed their scalps back on their heads so they could scalp them all over again five or ten times.
Merely the five presumably practicing orthodox Catholics on the Supreme Court could have stopped the Biden fraud — and all the evils and immorality they certainly knew were coming — by examining election evidence, but they refused even to hear arguments. How unlike when the court has been eager for revolution.
It wasn’t as if just one guy with an election complaint knocked on the High Court’s door. The Associated Press reported on December 11: “Eighteen other states won by Trump in last month’s election, 126 GOP members of Congress and Trump himself joined Texas in calling on the justices to take up the case that sought to stop electors from casting their votes for Biden.”
As a different proceeding for Trump — the U.S. Senate’s hoax trial against him for supposedly inciting insurrection — was scheduled to begin the week of February 8, another guy who had been charged with inciting a riot, someone even older than Biden, coincidentally died on February 2.
He was Rennie Davis, 80 years of age, reportedly dead with lymphoma. Davis was one of the “Chicago Seven” radicals brought to trial for plotting violent protest at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 in the Windy City, a key year in beginning to transform the Dems from their working- and middle-class profile to the elitist, garishly immoral structure of today.
The radicals protested U.S. military participation against the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia, and dominant media were on their side. To follow “news” coverage then was to be told repeatedly how unjust the judge and system were. Davis was convicted, but that eventually was overturned on appeal.
This time around, of course, dominant media will be rooting for some unfavorable outcome for Trump, even if enough Republican senators won’t vote to convict. His foes still fear his widespread appeal and hope to bar him forever from being able to use his popularity at the polls.
Puritanical Democrats
Shut down, silence, defame, and ban is puritanical Democrats’ strategy against capable foes, instead of trying to compete fairly against them.
Trump told hundreds of thousands of January 6 Washington, D.C., rally participants: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
It was a march they already had planned, and Trump told them to mind their manners. He did not say, “Hey, I just thought of this. Storm over and capture the Capitol.”
If he’d wanted to throw his weight around, he had more than enough hordes to envelop everything there.
Subsequent investigation revealed that some troublemakers had planned disruptions in advance, and Trump’s talk didn’t suddenly give them the idea.
By Dems’ own standard of political guilt, many Democrats should face stern judgment for their activities, but of course rules don’t apply to them. Consider the sensitive House Intelligence Committee. Its chairman, of all people, is bold, congenital, manipulative liar Cong. Adam Schiff, and a member is none other than Cong. Eric Swalwell, who had an affair with a Communist Chinese spy.
They’re both fanatical anti-Trump California Democrats. The one of them who played around with a Communist spy no more deserves a continued seat on Intelligence than he would playing doctor in an emergency room, wielding syringes of poison.
In 2018, when Trump was president and Biden was out of office, Biden said he would have taken Trump out behind the gym and “beat the hell out of him” for disrespecting women.
It was a startling enough comment for Delaware’s former vice president with a reputation for undue familiarity with women — and who went on to absolutely degrade them with his presidential transgender order in 2021 — but to threaten such direct personal violence against the occupant of the White House at that time should have earned Biden at least a sit-down with the Secret Service.
Biden later said he shouldn’t have said that.
As February began, national radio talk host Charlie Kirk said that last year 792 people were killed in Chicago, but 500 members of the Illinois National Guard recently were sent to D.C. — where, allegedly, Trump’s army threatens quivering Democrat politicians.
That was a typical misallocation of resources after the riotous summer of 2020, when to have called up the National Guard to protect Democrat-run cities” residents was said to be resurrecting the storm troopers.
Long run by Democrats, Chicago, with its strict gun-control laws, is a mecca for gun violence.
In early February, radio host Kirk and conservative author Dinesh D’Souza agreed that billionaire developer Trump has an ability to connect with ordinary people, with D’Souza saying he talks like an employee at one of his hotels, and Kirk thinking Trump acts like a worker at one of his job sites.
A dangerous man indeed, best treated with exile from where he could do good, while Biden’s odious characters who deserve a home in the pages of The Onion start looking up all our names for a personal visit by their “shower adjusters.”
A shower adjuster, as the late polymath William F. Buckley Jr. once explained it, is a liberal who knows better than you what temperature you need to have your shower water at.
But are the Dems really so strong now, Phoenix radio host Seth Leibsohn (KKNT, 960 AM) asked on February 3. Why has Biden already issued a record of dozens of executive orders when his party controls Congress? Can’t they govern?
“I don’t think it’s a show of strength,” Leibsohn said, adding that Gavin Newsom, the left-wing Democrat governor of huge California, is on the verge of being recalled by angry citizens.
Stay tuned.
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