Why Do Some Republicans Drift Leftward?
American Thinker,
by
Steve Feinstein
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
10/1/2020 10:01:00 AM
The liberals' worst nightmare has come to pass: Ruth Bader Ginsburg died during the Trump administration. Many supporters had urged her to retire during Obama's tenure so he could appoint her leftist successor. But with arrogant defiance, Ginsburg stayed on the bench, certain, no doubt, that President Hillary Clinton would name her successor. Reality's one tough customer. Now President Trump has nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We'll let all the others recount her unimpeachable credentials. Suffice to say, Mrs. Barrett is at least as qualified for the bench as was Mrs. Ginsburg. Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3 in just 50 days.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 10/1/2020 10:17:58 AM (No. 558396)
Fear! A Donald Trump can afford to thumb his nose at the liberals as long as he wants. An ordinary politician has a family to raise, mortgage to pay, children to be educated. That is why Donald is so valuable to conservatism and patriotism.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/1/2020 10:21:24 AM (No. 558402)
It is always curious that justices never drift right, only left, once they get on the bench.
And, as far as the angst of the Left over this opening, they can thank Sen. Harry Reid, and the Democrats who determined they needed to change Senate rules on the filibuster which they determined would be for their own political gain. They believed they had a multi-generational political dynasty established and weren't interested in allowing the pesky Republican minority to get in the way.
With a Trump win in 2020, and enabling the Senate to remain Republican will ensure more SCOTUS picks over the next 4 years, and a large number of Federal judges too.
Add a Republican House majority (just need to flip 17 seats), and you will truly find out what happened in 2016 with Hillary and the DNC spying on Trump campaign, campaign workers, and how they prevented a peaceful transition of power as those hoping to run out the clock and allow a Biden administration to cover-up the current investigations.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EQKimball 10/1/2020 10:30:53 AM (No. 558414)
All judges are supposed to be unmoored from partisan allegiance, but only conservative judges are. Conservatives have nuanced differences among themselves on such doctrines as separation of powers and federalism that only become apparent in factually dependent settings as distinguished from generalized discussion. That is why they are “unpredictable.” No conservative judge would be flattered at the thought of being politically “reliable,” while liberal judges treat it as a badge of loyalty to their side.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 10/1/2020 10:34:55 AM (No. 558424)
Maybe some people just get too full of themselves? After all, I'm a freaking SENATOR/HOUSE REP. in the US Congress! Instead of becoming more humble in office, the exact opposite occurs. Look at Hillary-does the word humble come to mind?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Pegmo 10/1/2020 10:40:08 AM (No. 558433)
Sin and fear of man. It's the natural tendency unless something or someone outside of themselves anchors them to Truth and reality.
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seamusm 10/1/2020 10:59:54 AM (No. 558471)
Because 'Being Nice' is for these dolts more important than 'standing tall'. Consequently they have to 'Kiss Up' alot when the opposition is following Alinksy's Rules.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 10/1/2020 11:00:10 AM (No. 558472)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/1/2020 11:44:56 AM (No. 558525)
That's where the ''dark money'' and blackmail drag them. It's easy to become filthy rich and indulge your perversions if you drift leftward.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 10/1/2020 11:58:03 AM (No. 558537)
Easy. They want to be liked, go to parties, and get good press.
They do not to be shunned, vilified, and portrayed as monsters.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2020 12:06:43 PM (No. 558552)
They are beating down, year after year, cocktail party after cocktail party, called racists, haters and thugs for decades by "their superiors, who are nice people".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/1/2020 12:31:24 PM (No. 558582)
Because their ox is getting gored and the special interests they bow down to are losing $$$. That means less money going to their PACs and campaigns.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 10/1/2020 1:04:29 PM (No. 558613)
To answer the question of the headline: Money, power, status--the three things that drive people. Of course, you could really boil it down to two--power and status. Then throw in man's natural sinful nature without God , and there you have it. Down, down, down they go--unless--or until they turn to God.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 10/1/2020 1:21:01 PM (No. 558627)
Some?
Nearly all.
Once they find out that their own pockets get nicely filled when they vote for giving taxpayer money to foreign countries and private enterprises.
And with Marxists running the educational system and the media for about three generations now, the average Republican voter just doesn't have the intellectual tools nor the emotional attitude to maintain s conservative value system.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Laotzu 10/1/2020 1:27:20 PM (No. 558635)
Moral corruption for most (Justice Roberts). Mental illness for some (thinking of that investigative reporter who came out of that Friendship Heights mental ward completely converted to the Democrat Party).
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 10/1/2020 3:31:00 PM (No. 558767)
I've thought a lot about what attracts people to the Dem Party, or the Left, especially since i started formal Russian and Soviet studies . I haven't come to final conclusions, I'm still thinking about it. Here's the preliminary:
1) people who don't like to think for themselves are attracted to associations or groups where there's a strong leader who will instruct them on what to do what to say, how to dress, how to tilt one's head, basically, how to live.
They like to hang with triple-A control freaks, this gives them purpose and meaning in life.
They are always looking about to see what the other people are doing in order to do the same or wear the same or do their hair the same... they are conformists. Some people can not bear being alone with their own thoughts and good books.
2) people who don't like to think for themselves don't deviate much from the herd. All you have to do is read about the "true believers" in any cult. Some prisoners in Stalin's gulags were heard to say, "Someone ought to tell Stalin what's happening here!" and, when he died, many wept. This did not happen with thinkers, those inquisitive, wise people with discernment and the ability to reason and the desire to pursue the truth.
Weak people who landed in the Republican Party for one reason or another, maybe Mumsy or Father towered over them and exercised control-freak influence. It happens. We can question their "republican" principles.
In short, if you are weak-minded, you can be drawn away, enticed away by bobbles and other sparkly things and a nice cage outfitted with a soft bed and a soft pillow into which you can nestle and sleep away into the deepness of forgetfulness, no mean people who say mean words, no orange man; you can stick your thumb in your mouth, pout, whine, complain. Thus the Dem motley rabble. That type will meander on over to the Dems from the Republican pen.
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In my humble opinion: any number of reasons. Friendlier press, more liberal cocktail parties, or just their inner Uniparty showing.