Myth Busted: Large Number of Retirements Will Doom Republicans in 2020

 

There have been soooooo many dumb and/or inaccurate statements made by the left in the past couple of weeks.  It is time to set the record straight. 

 

In the wake of last week’s assassination attempt on GOP lawmakers, liberals have resurrected the discredited theory that Sarah Palin is responsible for the 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and killed six others.  The left makes this totally false claim by pointing to a map created by Palin’s political action committee, SarahPAC, which used crosshairs to identify the twenty House Democrats, including Giffords; who supported Obama Care despite representing districts carried by Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election.  The left seems to believe that this map was designed to point out targets for assassination.  The map was actually designed to point out which districts would be the best targets for Republicans to go after in the 2010 midterm elections.  Even The Washington Post admitted that it is unlikely that this map motivated Jared Loughner, the perpetrator of the Tucson attack, to attack Giffords, since he had been obsessed with her for years.          

   

    

Another stupid statement was made earlier this month by actor and left-wing activist Mark Ruffalo.  Ruffalo was one of many lefties whining about MSNBC hiring too many white conservatives.  Ruffalo asked his followers on Twitter to sign a petition that calls for MSNBC and NBC to stop the “white conservative hiring spree.”  The petition complains that MSNBC is “pushing out black and brown voices and filling its network with hard-line extreme conservatives.”   Many of the recent hires the petition is complaining about are better described as moderates, rather than “hard-line extreme conservatives.”  Let’s start with George Will.  Will called for Donald Trump to be defeated in all fifty states and figuratively flushed his Republican Party registration down the toilet after Trump clinched the Republican nomination. He also got into a testy exchange with Bill O’Reilly, which is available here. Liberals like Ruffalo should be thrilled that Will has been added to MSNBC’s unrelenting anti-Trump chorus.

 

Another one of the white conservatives mentioned by the petition is Nicolle Wallace, who worked for Former President George W. Bush and co-hosted The View for one season.  Wallace, like Will, recently switched her party affiliation from Republican to Independent.  She has repeatedly expressed her disapproval of Donald Trump, at one point saying “We have just elected a man who bullies female reporters at his rally as an applause line.”  Wallace may be a Republican but she shares the same reservations about President Trump with her liberal colleagues.        

 

Also mentioned in the petition are Megyn Kelly and Greta Van Susteren, who recently arrived at NBC from Fox News.  Kelly actually managed to earn some sympathy from the left during the 2016 Election Season; as a result of her intermittent feud with Donald Trump.  It all began when then-candidate Donald Trump expressed his disapproval of a question she asked at the first GOP debate and lashed out at her on Twitter.  He even skipped the second Fox News debate because she was one of the moderators.  Of all the new hires, Greta has probably provided Trump with the most favorable coverage. She moderated multiple town halls with him on her former Fox News show “On the Record” and interviewed Melania Trump as part of a TV special titled “Meet the Trumps.”  Apparently, daring to interview Mr. Trump and his family members is enough to make Greta a “hard-line extreme conservative.”

 

 

Ruffalo’s statement makes it clear how much the left hates diversity; diversity of opinion, that is.  Apparently, anyone to the right of Marx has no place at MSNBC.  While it’s true that the new hires are not as liberal as veteran MSNBC anchors Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, or Lawrence O’Donnell; it is simply not accurate to call them “hard-line extreme conservatives.”  Ruffalo and his fellow liberals should not worry at all that MSNBC is moving to the right.  On Saturday’s edition of “AM Joy”, host Joy Reid decided it was a good idea to bring up the political beliefs of Rep. Steve Scalise just three days after he was almost killed by a left-wing extremist targeting Congressional Republicans.  She attacked Scalise for supporting a Constitutional Amendment that would have defined marriage as between one man and one woman as well as his support for the house healthcare bill and opposition to gun control.  She also brought up the fact that Scalise attended a white nationalist event prior to serving in Congress, as if that somehow justified his shooting.  Imagine the outrage from the left if a conservative pundit had criticized the political positions of a liberal politician three days after he was shot.      

 

Liberals absolutely have the First Amendment right to make dumb statements like the ones I mentioned in this article.  But just because you can say something, does not mean you should.  Conservatives should be glad liberals keep making these kinds of comments; for as long as they do, their influence in national politics will continue to shrink.