Pardon My Perplexity, But Why Should
We Be Gracious?
American Greatness,
by
Paul Gottfried
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
11/11/2020 11:15:19 AM
It is hard for me to understand the advice now emanating from Fox News and much of the rest of Conservatism, Inc.. These folks have gone into high gear instructing Donald Trump’s supporters to “graciously” accept Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Since we are not allowed to utter the word “fraud” to describe what has happened, are we at least permitted to refer to “irregularities”? I’m not sure that even that’s OK.
At high noon on November 7, when Fox News anchor Chris Wallace announced his network was declaring Biden the victor in the presidential contest, he quoted Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who warned the outgoing president against saying anything “inflammatory.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/11/2020 11:16:36 AM (No. 602454)
To Mitt Romney: You lost. You let a lot of us down. We have no interest in listening to you, following you, or even acknowledging that you are still alive.
To the rest: You never were. Easy to ignore you now.
33 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 11/11/2020 11:18:20 AM (No. 602459)
We should NOT be gracious. They are liars, thieves, traitors, criminals. They are stealing the election. We should fight like we mean it.
Romney and the coward -corruptocrat part of the Republican party can just drop dead for all I care. Horrible people.
30 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 11/11/2020 11:27:23 AM (No. 602475)
If the fraud is as widespread as we are being told it's not - there's more than half the voting population here with a brand new NOT MY PRESIDENT attitude. Our problem will be that our elected Pubs will bend at the ankles in supplication to the Swamp. Trump gave it a good shot but didn't hit bottom.
13 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Falconer 11/11/2020 11:28:06 AM (No. 602477)
To apologetically lie down with the dogs? Not in this lifetime. I prefer that we fight like hell.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
janjan 11/11/2020 11:31:09 AM (No. 602482)
I don’t take instruction from cable news talking heads on how to behave.
31 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/11/2020 11:32:37 AM (No. 602486)
This is what should have happened all along; the Democrats are not mere political opponents, they are the domestic enemies our Founders warned about!
From the article—“The best thing for America’s future is for Donald Trump to go to total war over this election.” I particularly like the call for “total war.”
16 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Italiano 11/11/2020 11:40:47 AM (No. 602494)
I'd convert to Islam before I'd unify with those vermin.
I hope he fails.
5 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jed 11/11/2020 11:42:32 AM (No. 602497)
For showing public support for Trump, the Left, damaged or destroyed their property, verbally attacked them, physically attacked and beat them, shot, and even killed them.
To quote James Woods
"And now the half of the country that pummeled America like a battered wife is telling her to put on sunglasses, hide her black eye, be a good girl, and come together as one"......."Go f yourself."
28 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Cindiana 11/11/2020 11:42:44 AM (No. 602498)
This Basket of Turncoats & Frauds need to realize that their main side-hustle (selling their books on Conservatism) dries up as quickly and deeply as FOX News viewship. They are so far in my rearview mirror that they're smaller than dust.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
john56 11/11/2020 11:43:28 AM (No. 602500)
I'm going to be as gracious as our Democrat and media friends have been the past four years.
Maybe if and when the GOP takes over the House, we can start (in public) impeachment proceedings against Crooked Sleepy Uncle Joe Biden. Not sure I want him removed from office, because President Horizontal Harris would be a problem.
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 11/11/2020 11:45:51 AM (No. 602501)
This will eventually end up in the Supreme Court. Where Trump will be declared the victor, after exposing dozens of cases of voter fraud and conspiracy. Thousands of single vote ballots for Biden-with no other selection for any of the races on those ballots-are for real? Poll watchers denied access? Barr has now taken the gloves off, and Richard Pilger, director of the DOJ Criminal Division's Election Crimes Branch, resigns?
THIS IS AN ONGOING COUP. WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT.
14 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 11/11/2020 11:48:14 AM (No. 602506)
'Gracious' is just another word for weak.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 11/11/2020 11:52:28 AM (No. 602513)
Like "graciously accepting" having your home robbed, or your family killed, or any other serious crime.
NO - this is a massive criminal act by many people. We will never accept it at all, let alone graciously.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 11/11/2020 11:58:01 AM (No. 602520)
In light of post election rioting I hereby notify all the well trained battle hardened ANTIFA cute little NINJA battalions that when you come into MY Texas town we will leave around 2 dozen of you alive. To bury the dead ones.
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Moritz55 11/11/2020 12:21:47 PM (No. 602547)
We can be gracious in our conduct without giving a fraction of an inch on our stance or values. President Reagan was a Master at it
7 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rather Read 11/11/2020 12:21:55 PM (No. 602550)
I can be gracious in defeat to those who are honorable and who don't insult me. That does not include any member of the democratic party except perhaps Joe Manchin and Tulsi Gabbard. It does not include any members of the mainstream press. Not one.
7 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
mathman 11/11/2020 12:34:40 PM (No. 602562)
To get along you have to go along. Was that not the motto of American Hero John McCain? Crossing the aisle, and all that.
Just be nice. Lie down, roll over, play dead, good dog.
Just let Schumer have his way. Don't get in the way of progress. Socialism is the wave of the future. All you have heard about the USSR, Venezuela, China, and all those other hell holes is lies. Just let them have their fake votes. There is no fraud. A printer makes just as good a voter as a Citizen, after all. And the dead gladly speak through the Ouija board.
Romney, Bush II, Jeb!, just want posts in the Biden administration. They won't have to do any work. Just sign their names.
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
columba 11/11/2020 12:55:19 PM (No. 602584)
Several years ago a burglar broke into the farm house in which I lived and made off with many of my possessions. I saw him some weeks later in a courtroom, where I was a witness to the ownership of my possessions. The attorney was not gracious. I was not gracious. The judge was not gracious.
Later in life I met a young lady whose father was a judge. She told me that her father often repeated YOU DO THE CRIME YOU DO THE TIME.
Next case, please.
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/11/2020 12:56:45 PM (No. 602586)
We don't owe Biden or any other Democrat anything. My fervent hope is the Election is called for Trump after the dust settles. Maybe I wouldn't take so much pleasure in that if Biden and his "Team" hadn't been so Pushy. They think they are in charge right now! NO! We have one president at a time and He and His Administration still run this country, so in my humble opinion Biden and Team should BACK OFF! And take that Fake "Office of the President-Elect" stick- on you had made with you. It's Cheesy!
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
vwlarry 11/11/2020 1:20:30 PM (No. 602601)
One word for the Democrats: SCROOM.
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Edgelady 11/11/2020 1:53:23 PM (No. 602618)
I was gracious throughout eight years of Obama. I was gracious throughout Hillary’s campaign. I’ve been gracious throughout President Trump’s first four years of office. But I will no longer be gracious to anyone who lies, steals, or calls people racist with not a lick of proof, calls people whatever names they wish and then has the temerity to turn around and say “forget everything I did, forget everything I said.” No - it doesn’t work that way. Indeed, they’ve have simply made us want vengeance for all the years of being so poorly treated. They’ve made a really huge mistake.
4 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/11/2020 2:04:36 PM (No. 602629)
Since when did Hillary Clinton write etiquette books? Gloat early and often.
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I like this essay. Gottfried names some of those who are doing full political Pollyanna - you know all of them - and then questions why, after four + years of anti-Trump, anti-Deplorables, anti-patriot calumny and worse, we’re all supposed to be polite. Gracious. Pffffft.