Stooping to new depths in its pimping for the Democratic Party, the New York Times framed the story as sour grapes from a defeated candidate and an ego clash:
“Dr. El-Sayed, supremely confident, did not wish to give an inch to a defeated rival. Ms. Stevens, still absorbing her primary loss, eventually felt scorned by his campaign’s failure to include her in events or reach out to her for her views and embarrassed to be told to stay away.”
That anti-Semitism detail apparently never showed up on the Times’ radar. What a disgrace the once proud Gray Lady has become. Referring to El-Sayed as a doctor is a tell: he’s a doctor the way Katie Zachariah is a lawyer. The Times is deliberately misleading its readers (and voters) by not elucidating the fact that he isn’t licensed to practice medicine and never has.
And here is part of the post one of my formerly astute and respectable lawyer friends put on Facebook:
“Sniveling traitor” is a fair term to apply to a Democrat who suddenly turns tail to support the Republican opponent to her own party’s candidate for the US senate in Michigan. Especially considering the rotten record of the Republican candidate on almost every issue of importance to most Michigan voters. Most of Stevens’s congressional staff has reportedly resigned in response to her flipflop and the Michigan Democratic party has expelled her. Americans despise turncoats so we can be sure that Stevens’s flipflop will steer many Michigan voters to El-Sayed’s camp.”
It wasn’t a “flipflop.” Apparently loyalty to Jew-haters is an important American value; I did not know that! The post was a matched set with one from a Harvard grad and theater friend who endorsed the statement of Haley’s now resigned chief of staff.
I had to respond briefly to both of my friend; for once my fingers won when I tried to wrestle them to the floor. To the latter, I wrote, “By all means, vote for a man who hates Jews for “the greater good.” Wait, hasn’t that happened before? Seems familiar somehow…”
It was a very mild version of what I wanted to write.
As of yesterday, I was going to cast my ballot for Annie Andrews out of objection to Darlene Graham being placed in the senate seat of her brother. Some underlying aspects of my thinking seem to have been similar to Steven’s cross-party endorsement – a willingness to entrust the other side because of the realistic potential of something much worse happening than me not having my particular views represented.
After her “betrayal” and the D. party response, it is clearer to me that this midterm is not merely a political skirmish and I am glad that I did not early vote.
Good thoughts.
This is another grain of sand in the ever-growing pile of evidence against early voting. Elections should be a one-day, on-site, in-person event. I can give some ground on absentee ballots, but only grudgingly.
Is there a Democratic Party anymore? I am really wondering. It looks like the 2 main parties are now the Republican Party and the Democratic Socialist Party. When I look at the statewide offices I have to vote on, I see Republicans, I see moderate Democrats running as Republicans, and I see either Democratic Socialists or Democrats who are former teacher’s union members running as Democrats. I suspect all the Democrats are at least secretly Democratic Socialists.
After our statewide runoff elections, the local TV news channels had the chairman of the state Republican Party give his thoughts on the results, then they went to the chair of the state Democratic Socialists for her thoughts. No mention of the State Democratic Party was made.
A recent (Republican) state legislator stopped by our table at a restaurant a month ago and asked my father-in-law what he thought of the candidates. My father-in-law stated that he liked a few, and he wasn’t sure about most. When the man asked why, my father-in-law couldn’t come up with and anwer. I asked, “How many of these ‘Republican’ candidates are Democrats who realized they can’t get elected as a Democrat anymore?” My father-in-law said “Yes, that is my problem”. The former legislator just turned and walked away.
All of this makes me wonder if the ‘Democratic Party’ is really the ‘Democratic Socialists of America’ now, but it is letting the legacy Democrats remain for a time and they are covering up to protect their offices.
“Americans despise turncoats.” But they should put a man who despises America in the Senate? He’s not a turncoat, he’s an enemy of America.