I think that marriage is history. If Kellyanne doesn’t see Stefanik as a stand-in for Kellyanne on this business, she is not one-quarter as smart as she is in every other context. Kellyanne answered those jejune Wolf Blitzer questions involving George the other day, and very well — but I looked at this fake Stefanik photo and the comments and thought, Okaaay, that’s it.

That McCarthy column was weak. I’ve not been quite the fan of his that others have. After the whole collusion thing that he wrote a book about you would think he would be way more skeptical and outraged at this thing but instead he just shrugs as you say.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/breaking-down-the-fallout-from-marie-yovanovitchs-testimony/

The upshot of it is that McCarthy, who has actually been better than a great many on this stuff, not only criticizes Trump more directly and harshly than anyone else but plainly states this whole impeachment effort is about nothing more than hurting Trump’s re-election chances AND THEN ESSENTIALLY SHRUGS HIS SHOULDERS AT THAT.

Using an impeachment as nothing more than a negative campaign ad is a grosser violation of established U.S. political norms than ANYTHING Donald Trump has ever done, yet McCarthy is completely undisturbed by it.

The connection to the Stefanik stuff is that stopping or correcting bad behavior sometimes requires extreme action that can be as bad or worse than the behavior itself. Sometimes that bully tormenting you will not stop until you physically beat the snot out of him. McCarthy and a good chunk of the conservative intellectual establishment will never do that. No matter how bad the behavior of the Democrats and the media becomes, they will never raise that metaphorical fist and strike back and so that behavior will not only continue but get worse and worse and worse.

Mike

https://youtu.be/1PORzc4wIXk

AG Barr is correct about his comments about the left and the treatment of Trump via the Democrat establishment. Barr is the best AG that the US has had in long time.

…the Nineteen Eighty-Four election, according to Victor Davis Hanson:

Stefanik: “My opponent Taxin’ Tedra can have your sick mysogynist support.”

Rather than apologize for his crude attack on Stefanik, Conway doubled down, countering “Well, now you have [been called ‘trash’].”

He then, without a hint of irony, calls President Trump “psychologically unstable” for . . . wait for it . . . name-calling.

Conway: “Well, now you have. You tell lies to defend a psychologically unstable man who calls people “scum” for telling the truth about him. ”

Stefanik seems to be taking note of the success of Trump’s nicknaming.

A more rational commenter pointed out that an honest person would verify the picture before posting it, not just take it down after the damage was out on the internet forever.

PS How does Kellyann Conway stay married to that creep? She ought to have some misgivings about his trashy ways, even if she is willing to live with his partisanship.