There are two excellent columns in The Wall Street Journal that explain just how low the Democrats will go to protect Roe v. Wade. The first column is “Destroying Brett Kavanaugh” and the second column is “The Case is Even Weaker Than That.”
I have often written that politicians need a powerful issue to raise money to keep getting reelected and also to motivate their supporters to get to the polls. The issue that the Democrats are now zeroed in on now is the right for women to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
Democrats are not dumb and have realized that Black Lives Matter is not going to keep them in office. Black unemployment is at an historic low and the Dems need a new issue. They have successfully used “choice” before and are now using it again to raise money and remain in office.
This column’s headline, “The Press Has Abandoned Even The Pretence Of Objectivity,” comes from the Journal column “Destroying Brett Kavanaugh” written by William McGurn. McGurn explains that the Democrats are scared to death that Judge Kavanaugh will be the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Yes, the press was complicit with the Democrats in trying to destroy Judge Kavanaugh. Newspapers, television stations, magazines and all other for-profit press organizations make money by selling ads. In order to sell ads, you have to have readers and controversial articles have been proven to attract readers.
During the contentious Kavanaugh confirmation debacle, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, if Judge Kavanaugh “deserved the same presumption of innocence as anyone else.” In responding to Tapper, Sen. Hirono said, “I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases. He is very much against women’s reproductive choice.” Tapper had just cranked up his viewership a notch.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is not only an effective politician — think farm subsidies — he is a crafty politician. He decided that his Republican colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee might grandstand a little and give fodder to the Democrats and the press to attack Kavanaugh, so he hired Rachel Mitchell to question the witnesses in the hearing. Mitchell is a professional prosecutor. Smart move Sen. Grassley.
Please read Mitchell’s Journal column referenced above, “This Case is Even Weaker Than That.” She goes into great detail explaining the inconsistencies in Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation and, as an novice viewer of the proceedings, I am amazed what a professional can uncover. Mitchell does not make any conclusion as to whether or not Ford was telling the truth. She just presents the facts (the article is six pages long) as she sees them.
In watching the hearings and reading the coverage, I have no idea whether or not Ford was sexually abused. To me, Ford seemed sincere, but so did Judge Kavanaugh. Sexual harassment and abuse is a huge problem in the world and as a civilized society, we must do everything we can to stop it.
Well, it happened again at breakfast with my left-leaning friends. I was looking forward to chatting about Utah football but all my left-leaning friends wanted to talk about was the Kavanaugh hearings. Try as I may, I could not get them to talk about anything but how bad Kavanaugh was.
Lately, I have written about the partisanship and hatred that has infested our country. What has me worried the most is how it’s affecting our children. Growing up, I don’t remember hearing what the children are hearing now. I believe that old soldiers like me can handle what’s happening, but with the children, I am not sure they can handle the very disturbing verbiage that’s floating around. People, for our children’s sake, let’s stop this insanity.
Robert Pembroke is the former chairman and CEO of Pembroke’s Inc. in Salt Lake City.