Jack Kemp

Peggy Ryan has written a piece at American Thinker today called "Media: The Democrat Enforcer."

It perfectly details how the Democrats and the Media combine to intimidate Republicans with questionable stories of "outrages" against Brett Kavanaugh, with the obvious implication that if the Republicans don't fold, they will bring up a false accuser of the very Republican Senators on the committee during their next election. The Media has the power to repeat the story all day long until the majority of low information voters believe it to be the truth. Remember ads for products that touted "As Seen on TV," as if that were the absolute standard of acceptable truth in this society and not facts laid out, as in many a court case? Remember, if about five percent of the voters could be swayed in the next Senatorial election, that would be enough to sink an average Republican's Senate career. You lose five percent and the Democrat opponent gains that five percent, that's a ten point swing in the election results.

Peggy Ryan has explained this tactic, compared perfectly to those used in "The Godfather" movies, extremely well. And she also indirectly explains why we need strong, energetic think-outside-the-box fighting Republicans to counter such fake tactics "as seen on tv" every night. I also agree with her criticism of Sean Hannity as well. Hannity's famous catch phrase is "Let not your heart be troubled," from the New Testament book of John 14:1. From seeing the actions of Democrat smear machine in action, I have to say that I am most probably not the only one whose heart is troubled by the tarnishing of a very good person and many others before (and probably after) them. Trump may have to nominate a military combat veteran male or a conservative black or Hispanic or a woman to deflect the Democrat smear machine. You may remember that when Condoleezza Rice was nominated for Secretary of State, a "liberal" cartoonist ran a racist cartoon against her, showing her as a squawking parrot with exaggerated thick lips and "feminist" Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer accused her of not caring enough about our country's future because Dr. Rice had not married and had children. But Dr. Rice and Justice Clarence Thomas were able to fight back.

Here are some salient quotes from Peggy Ryan's article:

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Whether or not the event actually happened, the coverage is the same. Politicians and news and cable hosts lecture us on the severity, the horror of whatever. They repeat identical talking points over and over, tyrannize audiences with interminable coverage of the beating. Waterboarding could not be more torture than these screeching, hateful liberals lecturing us on how we "must" think and act.

Sadly, too many conservatives join the pile-on. Due to their abject terror of the enforcer, Republicans and conservatives actually echo the left's talking points. Sean Hannity repeatedly says "this is a serious charge" and "she must be heard" while furtively looking over his shoulder for Luca to step out of the shadows with a tire iron.

We can't expect congressional Republicans to stop the madness; they're cowering in chamber corners, pleading with the mob not to dismember them.

It's a protection racket, an extortion scheme not at all different from the shop-owner who pays the mob $100 a week to protect the shop from destruction, his family from harm. People are willing to pay to be left alone, not to be attacked.

So it is with Republicans: either they stand down or they're next. Then they will be the poor saps facing an accuser who must be believed, who can't be challenged, who will have groups making ads to condemn the accused, 24-7 media confirmation of the alleged crime, and an accuser who's off-limits.

So they allow the media to hammer home the charges until everyone in this country is aware of the accusations. They let Dr. Ford set up all parameters of when she'll speak, if ever. Senator Grassley sets a deadline, then postpones it again and again because Dr. Ford is scared, she can't fly, she's trying to think, OK?

Whether Judge Kavanaugh's confirmed or not, Senate leaders have allowed his reputation to be sullied, the only black mark on a great man's record. They've let media broadcast this travesty for more than a week of wall-to-wall coverage of the smear.

But Congress doesn't really have a choice. The enforcer is waiting for these congressmen to make the wrong move. Either they cave to Dr. Ford's every demand or they face a brutal media campaign that could cost them the majority in upcoming midterms.

It's an offer they can't refuse.

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