I was unsure how to categorize the astounding photo above, depicting Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan behaving like an arrested mobster hiding his face from photographers as he is escorted by police to the paddy wagon because she has been “caught” visiting the White House. So it’s come to this, has it? So insanely hateful toward the elected President of the United States is the Democratic Party base that aspiring leaders of the party regard even meeting with their nation’s leader as such a brand of shame that they must act like the lepers in “Ben Hur.”
Despicably, the New York Times tries to spin this ludicrous behavior sympathetically. She’s a victim, you see, because Whitmer did not expect to be photographed and the presence of cameras “surprised” her. “Her whipsaw experience with Mr. Trump illustrates the political risks that Democratic governors face as a small group of them try to cultivate relationships with a president reviled by their party but in control of vast amounts of federal funding for states,” it says. The paper quotes Neera Tanden, the chief executive of the Center for American Progress: “Democrats from the center to the left believe Trump is an autocrat who represents an existential threat to democracy and our rights. They expect their leaders to meet the moment by fighting his dictatorial attacks, not placate, negotiate or assuage because doing so makes him stronger and bully others more.”
Sure. No, Gov. Whitmer revealed herself as a clown, a coward and a fool, while pandering to the Trump Deranged. When Chris Christie, then a GOP governor of New Jersey and Presidential hopeful, walked with President Barack Obama to survey the devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy, he knew he would be criticized by some of the extreme conservatives in his party (who already regarded Christie as too centrist.) Nevertheless, Christie didn’t wear a paper bag over his head because he was doing his job and he correctly believes that you treat the President of the United States and the symbols of his office with respect, no matter who is in the White House.
Whitmer’s absurd “I’m ashamed to be meeting with the President of the United Sates of America” act was signature significance, showing that this woman isn’t fit to lead anything. Indeed, a picture being worth the proverbial thousand words, I could easily exhaust the thousand describing what Whitmer’s conduct says about the state of her rotting party, the sickness of its base, and the cancerous, mindless hate that infects our politics.
But, I am confident, so can you.
Ethics Alarms 
Can we just get the civil war over with that the democrats are stewing for?
So my children can reach adulthood in the post war country?
They tried doing that his first term. How did that work out?
Just another example of doing the same thing again and expecting different results. Learning from their mistakes are is not strong train in them.
Of course, the GOP has its own issues with that, as well.
Considering her body of work, I’m NOT inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. Seriously, only a flippin’ rank moron wouldn’t think that that optic would be thoroughly damning.
PWS
Should have taken a page from Bill Mahr’s book and asked Trump to sign a list of all the insults trump had blathered her way.
Sulking and hiding in shame is the absolute worst approach to a “bully” and whichever reporter believes that cameras are an unexpected device inside the Whitehouse needs to be the one hiding in shame.
It continues to surprise me how weak the “Women of the Left” really are. They are in fact, the weakest of all groups. For all their talk of things like strength and solidarity and equality with men and shattering the glass ceiling, they certainly walk VERY differently.
Governor Whitmer should have been licking her chops, basking in her chance to visit the President and show, for all to see who can, how she is not only his equal, but his better. After all, isn’t she strong? Isn’t she President Trump’s equal – if not in position, certainly in intelligence and thought? Isn’t she considered by many in her party to have “presidential” potential? When that camera showed up, she should have shown her face with pride, and a mixture of grace and defiance, before going in to meet the President.
Yet here she is, displaying what I can only describe as incredible weakness. She is nothing more than a captive of her party’s ideology, a slave to its hatred of all things Trumpian. Governor Whitmer can’t even stand up for herself in the face of a camera. Why would women anywhere believe Whitmer would stand up for them?
This is partly why Democrats got trounced six months ago. And it’s 100% why men, masquerading as women, have complete freedom to sneak into female sports arenas, steal their records, hijack their awards ceremonies, and send women to hospitals with injuries.
“Yet here she is, displaying what I can only describe as incredible weakness.”
Could be part a helluva campaign ad…for her opponent.
PWS