Commentary
The left is running out of time, and they know it. With about 180 days remaining until the midterm elections, and 64 percent of Americans believing the country is on the wrong track, they cannot decide on messaging, except for the need to distract from inflation, the price of food, goods and gasoline.
For a few days, it was all about Elon Musk and how his acquisition of Twitter would alter the left’s idea of free speech. The Biden administration’s response, a Disinformation Governance Board within Homeland Security, was poorly conceived, followed by a mishandled announcement.
Then, with the leak of a Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade, the left found something designed to whip up anger among the Democrat base. They believe this is the chance to re-engage their disappointed lemmings.
Coincidentally, within minutes of the leak, protestors outside the Court hoisted professionally printed posters. Hmmmm.
To be sure, the left has already turned to Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to map their strategy when the Court formally announces its decision, even though it was the party’s radicals who are responsible for President Biden failure to transform the country.
Republicans are already reminding voters of then Senator Biden’s previous statement, “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body,” just days before the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision,” he said, “I think it went too far.”
The left’s efforts to intimidate the justices will fail. Referring to a society that has become “addicted to wanting particular outcomes, and not living with the outcomes we don’t like,” Justice Clarence Thomas said, “we can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you the outcomes you want.”
Democrats have no choice but to pin their hopes on swaying voters on the abortion issue. Fixing inflation and continued supply chain issues by November is out of the question.
“Depending on how they play it,” writes Selena Zito, the Washington Examiner’s crack grassroots reporter, “messaging on abortion is quite perilous. The more you argue in favor of it, and the more emotionally and graphically you do so, the more you turn people off. (It) might actually cost them votes.”
A new poll by CNN, conducted by SSRS, reveals that the left’s thinking that the Court leak would change the Democrat outlook for the midterms is unfounded.
I, Too, Was Similarly Picketed
It was years before I moved to Texas, where I began publishing Kramerontheright, and under much different circumstances, and on a much smaller scale. Similar, only because those picketing my home were from the political left.
It happened in 2004, when I foolishly thought I could change the political landscape of the very liberal city of Flagstaff, Arizona as a candidate for city council.
A handful of picketers strolled my corner property, waving signs in opposition to me, and another challenger, Rick Krug, harassing passing traffic. The police stopped to speak to the group, and before long they soon disassembled.
While I received financial support of several conservative residents, I lost my bid, winning only the district in which I resided.
Finally, Ponder This
Not long ago, the Washington Post declared that people of color would suffer more from climate change. Now, the paper is quoting experts who say people of color will suffer more with Twitter owned by Musk.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
