Last night, senator Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi went for dinner to a restaurant in Washington. After they got to the restaurant, a crowd "spontaneously" gathered inside the establishment to threaten Cruz and his wife and to chant some rather nasty things and to announce "we believer survivors". Got that? Cruz was being confronted because the crowd "believes" dr. Ford rather than Bret Kavanaugh.
This was a preplanned attack. We know that busloads of Antifa members went to DC yesterday to pave the way to Thursday's hearings by the Senate Judiciary committee. It's not much of a logical jump to assume that the first Antifa outing was this disgusting display of attempted mob rule. Even if it was not Antifa, however, it surely was something that was planned in advance. There was no other way to get that group of protesters to the restaurant so quickly unless they either followed Cruz there or somehow got advanced notice of where he was dining.
I wonder if the protesters understand the impact of what they are doing. I think it is fair to say that most Americans are decent people who recoil from attacking the senator and his wife for any reason. No matter how the Kavanaugh nomination turns out, no reasonable person sees an attack like this as appropriate. In America, political disagreements are supposed to be discussed and then voted upon, not fought out in the streets by thugs. My guess is that particularly in Texas this attack will actually help Cruz and the Republicans. I'm surprised that Cruz' Democrat opponent in the November senate election hasn't condemned the attackers. I guess when part of your base consists of violent crazies you can't condemn them without doing serious damage to your position. As for the rest of America, these thugs have once again confirmed something that has been on display for a while: the Democrats as a group have lost their minds. The Kavanaugh battle is being waged by the Dems more like World War III than a political dispute. All those people who voted for Trump two years ago because they couldn't stand things like Hillary's famous dismissal of them as a "basket of deplorables" are being reminded just why they dislike and distrust the left so much.
UPDATE: I just saw the headline on Yahoo News about this disgusting confrontation in the restaurant. According to Yahoo News, Cruz and his wife were "heckled". That's actually the word Yahoo uses. It just further reinforces the basic truth that the mainstream media is hopelessly biased. Heckling is defined as interrupting a public speaker with derisive comments. It doesn't include threats of physical violence visited by a crowd of thugs upon a couple who are quietly having dinner at a restaurant. That's called an attack. By the standards of Yahoo News, they would call attempted murder by a street gang an "unhappy meeting".
This was a preplanned attack. We know that busloads of Antifa members went to DC yesterday to pave the way to Thursday's hearings by the Senate Judiciary committee. It's not much of a logical jump to assume that the first Antifa outing was this disgusting display of attempted mob rule. Even if it was not Antifa, however, it surely was something that was planned in advance. There was no other way to get that group of protesters to the restaurant so quickly unless they either followed Cruz there or somehow got advanced notice of where he was dining.
I wonder if the protesters understand the impact of what they are doing. I think it is fair to say that most Americans are decent people who recoil from attacking the senator and his wife for any reason. No matter how the Kavanaugh nomination turns out, no reasonable person sees an attack like this as appropriate. In America, political disagreements are supposed to be discussed and then voted upon, not fought out in the streets by thugs. My guess is that particularly in Texas this attack will actually help Cruz and the Republicans. I'm surprised that Cruz' Democrat opponent in the November senate election hasn't condemned the attackers. I guess when part of your base consists of violent crazies you can't condemn them without doing serious damage to your position. As for the rest of America, these thugs have once again confirmed something that has been on display for a while: the Democrats as a group have lost their minds. The Kavanaugh battle is being waged by the Dems more like World War III than a political dispute. All those people who voted for Trump two years ago because they couldn't stand things like Hillary's famous dismissal of them as a "basket of deplorables" are being reminded just why they dislike and distrust the left so much.
UPDATE: I just saw the headline on Yahoo News about this disgusting confrontation in the restaurant. According to Yahoo News, Cruz and his wife were "heckled". That's actually the word Yahoo uses. It just further reinforces the basic truth that the mainstream media is hopelessly biased. Heckling is defined as interrupting a public speaker with derisive comments. It doesn't include threats of physical violence visited by a crowd of thugs upon a couple who are quietly having dinner at a restaurant. That's called an attack. By the standards of Yahoo News, they would call attempted murder by a street gang an "unhappy meeting".
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