Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court justice?

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Every election since the close of The Civil War has been won or lost on the economy.

Those candidates in office who see a positive spike in economics 6 months prior to an election are usually reelected.

This is why Democrats are freaking out and why they have Obama crawling out from under a rock to take credit for an economy he did not create.

This is part of a two-fold strategy ahead of the midterm 2018 election.

First this is a desperate attempt to stall the appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice on the hope that Democrats can keep back the Senate and will get to stall as the GOP did the appointment until after the 2020 election when they also hope they can replace Trump as president.

The confirmation hearings that have come to resemble a Democratic three-ring circus is also position Cory Booker as a potential candidate to run for president. Booker and some other Democrats are apparently trying to prevent Hillary Clinton from hijacking the party the way she did in 2016, and keep the GOP from using her as their main campaign issue again.

Booker, of course, has become the new Anita Hill, part of an all out campaign to destroy the reputation of an otherwise qualified candidate for the Supreme Court.

This is the political version of the total war concept union generals employed during the Civil War against the South and Americans deployed during World War II when we bombed places like Dresden and Nagasaki.

This political total war mentality grew out of the Kennedy campaigns of the 1960s and early 1970s, defining political opponents in terms of good and evil, rather than differences in philosophy, and thus allowing Democrats to employ any and all means to stop their opponents.

Some believe Watergate was the result of such a campaign. But this was clearly used to derail GOP Supreme Court nominees in the 1980s and in 1991, when the Democrats dug up Anita Hill to discredit then candidate Thomas, a campaign that clearly decided to ruin not his just his chances to sit on the high court, but to destroy his reputation as well.

We are seeing the same tactics being deployed against Kavenaugh as Democrats resort to any and every strategy to keep the court from becoming too conservative before Democrats have their chance to retake the Senate after November’s mid-term elections.

The Democratic blitzkrieg is not too much different from Sherman and Sheridan scorched earth policy, using media to discredit Kavenaugh so that even some Republican senators might have second thoughts about approving him.

The GOP, however, needs to avoid the mistakes the South made during the Civil War when the south decided to retain high ground by fighting a clean war. Instead, the GOP needs to go on the offensive and begin to work on the character flaws of the people who are attacking Kavenaugh.

Booker is vulnerable especially in regards to some of the election high jinks his campaign pulled when he ran for mayor of Newark. His record as mayor is hardly stellar, which is why Democrats bumped him up to U.S. Senator.

But more importantly, the GOP needs to show just how Obama sold out working people when he continued Bush-policies to rescue banks and did little to stop the massive foreclosures that put some many poor people out of their homes.

Since Obama decided to take credit for the current economy, he is clearly to blame for hurting the most vulnerable.

The GOP also has to realize that failure to get Kavenaugh appointed could feed into a frenzy that would indeed lead to a Democratic takeover of the Senate. If the GOP doesn’t get Kavenaugh appointed, the nation might well see Hillary Clinton appointed to the high court if and when Democrats regain power.