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Messaging

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Even Republican presidential candidates who have declined to jump into the political fray and comment on Donald Trump’s frequent, headlining remarks are struggling to stay quiet, as the top GOP challenger continues to dominate the news cycles.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) has for weeks told Fox News and others that he would rather talk about his campaign than score political points by criticizing Trump. However, Trump’s comments about Fox anchor Megyn Kelly this weekend and reporters’ hunting for a reaction have practically forced a response.

Emphasis added. No, the reporters aren’t forcing anything; the Republican candidates’ responses are entirely their own choices. If they want to talk about their campaigns, then they should talk about their campaigns.

Even Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) knows this. She’s a Senator, in fact, because during her election campaign, she didn’t just deflect questions about her supposed ties to “Pocahontas,” she actively ignored them: whenever she was asked about her claimed Native American ancestry, she would simply talk about this or that policy that she intended to pursue once in the Senate.

The Republicans need to show similar courage and stop ceding their messages to the press.

Jeb Bush Misunderstands

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In a post-debate interview on CNN, Presidential candidate Donald Trump (Businessman) had this to say about the allegedly tough questioning regarding his remarks about women that he had to face from one of the debate moderators, Megyn Kelly:

She gets out, and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her [pause] wherever.

Among the responses to this…statement…was this from Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush (R):

Do we want to insult 53% of all voters? What Mr Trump said is wrong. That is not how we win elections. And worse yet, that is not how you bring people together to solve problems.

Yes, Mr Bush, what Trump said was wrong—insultingly, imbecilically wrong. Full stop.

Full stop. Trump’s slur was intrinsically wrong, it wasn’t wrong because it’s bad political tactics.

Party Apparatchik

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…PRC style. The truth police are there to help.

China’s government will set up cybersecurity police units at major Internet companies, in Beijing’s latest move to tighten control over the country’s online forums.

And

China’s Ministry of Public Security didn’t say which companies will have the new police units.

The modern version of Партийных аппаратчиков.

Get the Messenger

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Of course. The Democratic Party of California can’t stand to have their narrative so impertinently disputed. In the present case, the Democrat State Attorney General, Kamala Harris, is going after the Center for Medical Progress for so rudely exposing Planned Parenthood as being, apparently, in the baby body parts business, with those parts carefully harvested from babies carefully aborted so as to preserve those parts. Her claimed purpose is

to see if any law was broken in the filming.

Right. Because exposing aborted baby body part trafficking—whether for profit or out of the “goodness of the woman’s heart”—might be illegal. Never mind the trafficking. Never mind the level of morality involved in destroying a baby’s life in favor of a woman’s convenience.

Harris said she would investigate

allegations that individuals impersonated corporate officials from a fake biologics company, resulting in the release of secretly filmed videos of Planned Parenthood physicians without their consent.

But she hasn’t a syllable about, or a penny for, investigating Planned Parent’s apparent trafficking.

This is the Democratic Party, California style.

Oh, yeah: Harris also is running for California’s Senate seat. She’s looking for votes out of this escapade, too.

Ashamed of our Heritage

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The Democratic Party of Connecticut is that. They’ve voted to strip the names of two of our Founders from their annual fund-raising dinner. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were slave holders, and so are unfit to be…what…Founders? Never mind that most of our Founders were slave holders—that was the norm of the time—or had feet of other serious clay.

What’s next, Washington’s Birthday will exclude George Washington, slave owner?

This was Party Chairman Nick Balletto’s “brainstorm.”

Democrats are the party of inclusion. And in my opinion, the time has come to reevaluate the name of the JJB [the dinner] to reflect the diverse makeup and forward-looking vision of our party[.]

Sure. The party of inclusion via the KKK. The party of inclusion via Jim Crow. The party of inclusion of racist, sexist affirmative action that excludes groups of Americans because they don’t have the preferred—dare I say privileged?—skin color or gender.

This is the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Democratic Party made manifest.