Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth

Progressives’ ghoulish glee over the death of an old man turned into barely constrained panic when, later that day, it was revealed that their heroine Ruth Bader Ginsberg was just treated for pancreatic cancer yet again. Their disgraceful joy at David Koch’s passing was yet another reminder of the harsh truth that leftists want you dead or enslaved. Koch’s sin was that he disagreed with liberals (though, in important ways, also with conservatives). For that, these cretins danced around like idiots celebrating his succumbing. And they’ll celebrate when you die too. Always believe people who tell you they hate you and want you dead.

Oh, and never disarm.

Of course, RBG is eager to disarm you, and she would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling Supreme Court kids who actually read Second Amendment. Her constitutional jurisprudence consists of disregarding what she dislikes that’s in the Bill of Rights and making up stuff that’s not in it but that she feels – not thinks, feels – should be in it. She’s a terrible justice and conservatives would love to see her step down. But our side expressed no delight in her latest suffering comparable to the giddy revelry that greeted Koch’s kicking the bucket. We’re not monsters, though how long that remains true is up in the air. When you establish New Rules they tend to come back and bite you on the Schumer. 

Here’s a pro tip, liberal dummies. If you are going to normalize the hatred of political opponents and express open joy at their demise, the savvy play is to be the political faction that possesses and knows how to use AR-15s and not the one that agonizes over its pronouns.

RBG’s latest successful MMA bout with the Grim Reaper is a reminder that we conservatives need to gird our loins for what’s coming when she finally leaves the Supreme Court for good. But our anticipatory loin girding is merely prudent preparation.

In fact, most of us feel a grudging respect for Ginsburg as a worthy opponent and as one tough cookie. She’s like John McCain with a neck doily; he drove us up the wall too, but as a group we did not wish cancer on him.

Not wanting her to die a horrible death is not to sugarcoat the damage she has done with her utterly upside-down vision of our founding document, but to simply reaffirm a point that never should have been an issue but is an issue because of the shameful behavior of liberals like we saw with Koch. We conservatives don’t want people to die simply because they have different political beliefs.

But she’s very old and she’s very sick and facing that reality is not the same as high-fiving it. There’s a more than significant chance that before the 2020 election she will pass on to her reward despite her being the Energizer Bunny of being wrong wrong wrong about constitutional jurisprudence. She just keeps going and going and going, but someday she’s going to run out of juice and join her pal Antonin Scalia on the bench in the great beyond, and if that happens with Trump in the White House, ho boy.

You can relive the shameful saga of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino’s remarkable Justice on Trial. What will happen next time will pale in comparison. If you thought you saw frothy, mouth-foaming insanity last time — just you wait.

The elite’s message will combine “Trump is illegitimate” with “Cocaine Mitch is breaking precedent” and “They’re going to bring back slavery when they establish The Handmaid’s Tale as the law of the land” with a bit of “This will shred the fabric of the nation we love so much that we support jerks who kneel during the National Anthem.”

The Democrats are already prepping the battlespace with this cheesy narrative. Obama’s brain David Axelrod tweeted: “If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland-it will tear this country apart.” I responded to this tweet by observing – employing terms that were a bit salty and therefore shall not be linked – that the last time Democrats failed to get their way and tore the country apart, we patriots (paraphrasing) handily defeated them. But hey Dems, maybe the second time’s the charm!

It’s not worth the time to dissect the wrong premise about confirming justices during an election year in Axelrod’s wrong tweet. Liberals are disinterested in argument, and the Murder Turtle running the Senate gets this and won’t even play their game. This is about power. On an objective level, perhaps Justice Ginsburg should step down, but she has the power not to and therefore it’s silly to whine about her not doing it. Similarly, we have the power to shove a new conservative Supreme Court justice down the Dems’ throats, so it’s silly to argue with the libs about it (though our objective case for doing it is strong). After a short and dignified interregnum, once the impending RBG vacancy becomes actively vacant, Donald Trump should unashamedly use the power of the office he was elected to and nominate a replacement, and Moscow Mitch should start rushin’ toward confirming him – or her.

The fact is that soon we’re going to have six conservatives on SCOTUS, or actually, five-and-a-half if you count Justice Soft Serve Roberts.

And when this all goes down, the left will freak out in a festival of freaking outness unparalleled in American history. The Dem candidates will go nuts. Big Chief Warren will be on the warpath, Bernie will call for revolution, Harris will say whatever she thinks is useful, Biden will start talking about how JFK visited him in the White House, and Beto will continue to be a furry.

We’ll get lots of the “Orange man bad, orange man not nominate a judge because he bad” babble from the libs and their gimp media. Maddow will cry, Don Lemon will pound an umbrella drink and Tater Stelter will sweat profusely as he reads off the teleprompter about how Trump is literally Hitler. The Fredocons will weigh in with their patented brand of sissy submission to their elite tops. We’ll be informed how taking back the Supreme Court like the geebos of Conservative, Inc., promised for three decades is actually not who we are and how we’re better than that and how oh well I never. Can you imagine Jeb! or Mitt in this situation? They would eagerly, whole-heartedly buy into the compromise unity candidate ploy to stick some moderate muggle on the bench in order to “repair the heart of our country” and “build bridges” of bipartisan love.

Trump builds victories, and he’s going to blow up that bridge.

My money is on him appointing Amy Coney Barrett, who has the unique ability to be a Scalia-like justice and to own the libs by being a woman. And not just any woman but a female woman who has kids and goes to church and is down with originalism like a boss. It’s going to be hard to paint her as the ringleader of a teen rape gang, and while her beer-appreciation status is yet unknown, it is unlikely she will have to explain to the dummies on the Judiciary Committee her high school clique’s unique flatulence euphemisms.

But they will still try to destroy her. That’s their only move, one not unrelated to the giddy cheer that greeted David Koch’s death. All we conservatives did with whoever Merrick Garland was was tell him “No.” But if you are conservative and you oppose them, they will try to wipe you out, if not literally then at least figuratively. But that’s a desperation tactic and it does not work, not if you hold strong and refuse to back down. Clarence Thomas fought back and won. Brett Kavanaugh fought back and won. And Amy Coney Barrett will fight back and she will win.

And that means our Constitution will win.

Loins, commence girding.

Read a vivid account of what happens if the left establishes its dictatorship in the ruins of the blue states in my action-packed yet hilarious novels, People’s Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire. Due to liberals being terrible, the United States splits into red and blue countries and if you think California is bad now, just wait. The Never Trump weenies hate my books, probably because people actually read my books, and these cruise-shilling losers tried to label them “Appalling” for mocking the Ahoy Boyz liberal masters. That’s a potent validation of my novels’ wokeness!

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Fuck Ginsberg, but fuck the Koch’s too. A couple of globalist, fake conservatives.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer

If Trump wins in 2020 we will have a civil war, if the Dems wins in 2020 we will have genocide…….take your pick.

Brewer55
Brewer55

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

The same agenda prevails no matter who gets elected. Jokes on you for believing otherwise.

Brewer55
Brewer55

VH, I’m well aware of the Hegelian Dialectic as it pertains to the charade we call the two party system. They are all on this same payroll and have the same handlers. So, let’s move past this. It appears that you are so hard core on trying to dis everyone that is of not the same mindset that you ignore what the person is trying to convey.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Okay, but the article is a left vs. right article. I was merely commenting on the falsehood of the mindset in the article and trying to wake up (not dis) anyone falling for this cleverly orchestrated statist propaganda. I mean look, the president wants the same type of Soviet style gun control measures that the dems want. The president wants the same immigration policy that the dems want. And here we have people like MH and others that actually believes that electing one or the other will make a difference. It won’t make anymore difference than if Ginsburg is replaced either.

The voting sheep don’t understand “agenda”. Them as a voter do not change the agenda by voting anymore than embracing a left vs. right dialectic will change the agenda. Reality calls!

The true threat amongst us is the state vs. us.

Stucky

In the NY primary AOC got 15,897 votes to Joe Crowley’s 11,761 votes.

State data show there are 214,570 active Democratic voters in that district.

215,000 voters.
A mere 16,000 votes gave AOC the nomination.

Fuck.

“Not voting” — THAT’S why AOC is in congress today.

Brewer55
Brewer55

Just saw this. Some of TBP posts are going in my spam folder. Anyway, I have struggle with the “why bother to vote” issue too. However, as Stucky points out below, there are those situations where it does count. Even if it is so minimal now, I’ll probably continue to vote for the best (out of the worst??) candidate out there. If to do nothing more than to potentially give us more time until the whole bottom falls out.

anonymous

Yeah, don’t vote. Don’t bother to vote, just whine and whinge about the bad candidates ad nauseum and spew bitter bile constantly. So, oh Wise One, what should we do if we don’t vote? Oh, wait….you’re trying to get conservatives and non-liberals to not vote so the democrats can get whatever idiot they’re running into office. Gotcha.

James
James

Mart,will go with option 3,succession if dems win and then probably civil war as they will not allow folks to voluntarily just leave.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Agree with that somewhat as NJ has steel cables attached to their tax laws.
People who book a profit on selling their home with the intention of relocating out-of-state will be hit with a nasty tax bill. NJ Nanny State is running such a deficit they want their income tax paid up front and many are calling this an “exit tax”. For many such a penalty is not only a rude surprise, but financially detrimental toward helping close on a new property elsewhere.
Praying to God my wife decides to transfer out of NJ when her job allows it. I can work anywhere but her retirement prospects are tied with her job.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Won’t they be surprised once they step out of their blue dots into “America.”

Dutchman
Dutchman

That old hag is gonna kick really soon. I’m going to love seeing the Demonrats shit their pants when Trump nominates another pseudo conservative to the court.

Legal Beagle
Legal Beagle

One of the better opinion pieces regarding her replacement:

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/23/the-path-forward-for-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

BB

He should speak for himself. I will be glad when that vile bitch is dead.I hate them right back. It’s time for all of us on the “right” to drop this nice guy bullshit. They hate us and want us dead therefore
we should hate them right back
.We are in a war whether we admit it or not and this is not going to change anytime soon. To many take the words of Christ out of context when he said we should love our enemies.

The U.S. is a Donkey Show
The U.S. is a Donkey Show

I love my enemies to death. 🙂

ragman
ragman

Yup, I’m one of the monsters he spoke about. This thing has been profoundly evil her whole life. A most excruciatingly painful death is too good for her.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer

Bad BB, very bad be the better person. I think Trump should seek her removal for incapacity to serve but let’s not go there on the cancer. Bad karma. Someday you will be ill and close to death yourself, we all will. She will be meeting her maker and being held accountable soon enough, it is not for us to revel in her suffering.

ragman
ragman

This devil was an attorney for planned infanticide before her current stint. She is responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the death of millions of unborn. I’ll be happy to piss on her grave!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

“Vengeance is mine says the Lord.” I do not believe He needs any help from us deciding how to judge her or the rest of us. Just pray none of us get what we may deserve.

grace country pastor

“To many take the words of Christ out of context when he said we should love our enemies.”

What context should His words be placed in then BB?

“I know that’s what He said but that’s not what He meant?” Do we need the Greek; another “version” with a liner note that agrees with our personal sentiments?

Seems to me that Christ said what He meant and means what He says. For those of us who understand rightly dividing the Bible these words do not pose a problem we must “explain away”.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Schlichter shouldn’t assume that McConnell could get a conservative through the confirmation process. Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (CO), Martha McSally (AZ), and even Thom Tillis (NC) are all up for close re-election bids. And Alaska’s Murkowsi is probably a “no” on any decent nominee.

Also, when McCain had cancer, I rooted for the cancer. Same with Ginsburg.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

McCain was a special type of evil. He was intentionally vindictive in his actions and his knowing he was going to die just magnified the miserable nature of his personality. I see the same sort of willfulness in Ginsburg, a willingness to live if only for the power.
If power is removed from that sort of person, he or she will wither away, much to the benefit of those who’ve been damaged.

yahsure
yahsure

The local news today talked about McCain like he was a God or something. I think he was a petty spiteful old SOB. The fact that Trump won while he lost, I think this ate at the man. His vote on healthcare showed his true nature.

Ralphie the Buffalo
Ralphie the Buffalo

Gardner is toast with Hick going up against him, so he will start acting like a real ‘publican, but it will be too little/too late. He might even stop bad-mouthing Trump in order to get a few more votes and may keep his mouth shut, hold his nose, and vote to confirm whoever is nominated to replace the old bag.

TampaRed
TampaRed

i’m a lurker on moveon.org–
you should see the fundraising email they sent out about susan collins–
while most of us here believe that she’s a far leftist turncoat,the left considers her to be a traitor 4 her voting record–

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

She’s been dead for awhile now, AI.

TC
TC

Has anyone actually seen this woman in the last 6 months? Above ground, that is? Shows you what a bunch of useless cuckolds the GOP is that they don’t demand proof that she’s still alive.

Hole in One
Hole in One

That’s Roberts’ job isn’t it? You know, taking roll just as the morning bell finishes ringing.

TampaRed
TampaRed

actually,it should be congress’ job because this isn’t the 1st time this has happened-
she should be removed from office,in addition to there being a mandatory retirement age–

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Their disgraceful joy at David Koch’s passing was yet another reminder of the harsh truth that leftists want you dead or enslaved.

The right wants the left dead or enslaved also. See how much they are alike?

Of course, RBG is eager to disarm you……

So is AmeriKan communist leader Trump and his daughter with their plan for Soviet style gun confiscation (Which BTW is a proven fact in case you didn’t know). See how much they are alike?

Trump builds victories, and he’s going to blow up that bridge.

Victories? Name one.

It’s going to be fun when the civil war begins because of the bogus Left VS. Right statist that are both government worshipers fight over who their favorite messiahs are. The jokes on both of them. The system was designed from the start to give the illusion of choice and to divide and conquer. It’s called “The Great American Shit Show”. I’ll be watching from a distance in a lounge chair with a six pack of beer while they battle it out and kill each other, then when both forces are weakened by the Hegelian forces the government had all along the government comes to the rescue to annihilate both warring factions.

Please continue, this is the best entertainment my tax dollars has paid for yet. And while you’re being conquered by your elected conquerors (whom you falsely believe are working for your best interest), please VOTE HARDER.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer

No, you won’t be sitting in a lawn chair….you will be part of one side or the other, shitting yourself every time a vehicle drives down the street hoping it is not a raid by the opposition or security forces. That’s the difference this conflict will affect everyone, up close and personal.

Brewer55
Brewer55

Agreed. There will be no lawn chair observers. Everyone should be vetting their neighbors and finding out who has the same mindset and who has the best place to hunker down with. I know I can’t stay awake 24/7 protecting my family, can you?

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

There will be no lawn chair observers.

Stupid comment.
You are saying that two dimensional left brain, right brain is all that is possible. A monkey does the same thing. You’re missing any other possibilities that could exist by saying there are only two and can only be two. Can’t be a third possibility?

You are right where your propagandist want you in their narratives. Congratulations, you’ve reached “Peak Obedience” in the Great AmeriKan Shit Show. Your conquerors thank you and encourage you to keep voting thinking something will change if you do.

Brewer55
Brewer55

Feel better now? It’s obvious you have no clue what I was trying to convey. Go troll someone else.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

It probably thinks there are more than two sexes too.

James
James

Brew,not sure why that got a neg(hate the rating system,just comment whether agree or disagree).

As for 24 hour,short term coffee and,ummmm……,home made stay up pills!

Long term better to have clan,but,folks,you already have that,right?!

mark
mark

Relish the back and forth in this thread from all, gives me solace many others have their eyes open and see the threats…many points by all making me sit up straight and re-read.

James…Brew, Vote Harder, Martel, BB, all others’…I’m working hard loosely organizing likeminded neighbors with concrete plans for mutual support no matter when TSHTF…and making progress. That is going to pay more dividends than any other investment – community relationships with the right neighbors. I wish more of those around me had the insights that abound here. I’m just hoping and praying for more time…never dreamed we would have had this much time already.

Disagreement in ‘minor points’ and perception abounds but not THE THREAT realization.

Just continue taking actual practical and tactical prep steps that make sense to protect your families. Even small steps will be critically important one day soon.

Ghost

Keep preaching it brother!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

James, never forget there are folks who cruise around here and elsewhere engaging in agitprop and all that fun stuff. There is a probe under way. Upcoming elections always bring them out of the woodwork.

Brewer55
Brewer55

Just saw your comment…yes, agreed. (I did stock up on caffeine pills!).

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

No, you won’t be sitting in a lawn chair….you will be part of one side or the other,….

Not so MH. Unlike you and the voting sheep, I amongst others have taken the red pill and woke up to the fact that the Right VS. Left paradigm is contrived by the state itself and thus controls both political ideologies. You, a blue pill head, have been brainwashed to believe that the true enemy is not the state which created the left/right warring factions. So in essence you are gullible and have fallen directly into the hands and you’re right where they want you.

This also explains why your rightwing president is embracing leftwing measures. Red pill MH, red pill. I know you have a prescription but it doesn’t do any good if you don’t take them.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

MH, VH is a fraud, likely a plant sent to disrupt. All those telling everyone their vote is a waste of time are the problem. AOC won her primary with less than 5.5% of eligible voters voting for her. The tallest pile of shit impersonating a human being, DeBlasio won the primary with 4% of the eligible voters. IF NO ONE VOTES THE TINY MINORITY OF PROG FILTH CAN WIN! One out of twenty-five got DeBlasio in position to destroy America’s largest city. One out of 19-20 got Occasional Cortex elected to stage a continuous shit show and likely the same for most of the filth California sends to despoil the halls of government. Yeah! Don’t vote. Just hand your wallet and your country over to evil moronic scum suckers because you’re too fucking clever and cool to participate in the farce! Do that my friends and YOU are the farce!

TampaRed
TampaRed

good points,senor harry–
low turnouts occur during off year elections,which is why at the local/state levels tax advocates usually try to have voter approved tax increases on off year ballots,not potus year ballots–

Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly

Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh haven’t got a conservative bone in their bodies. All are get-along-go-along establishmentarian swamp critters. Loathsome, dishonest, and unworthy of the esteem of good people. Expect the next candidate nominated by a non-Democrat President to be cut from the same bolt of cloth.

The Constitutional “process” has been weaponized, and the power is in lib hands, 100%. There is no dealing with these people. If we want to change the vector this place (no longer a nation) is on, and establish a new nation as the old one disintegrates (literally dis-integrates as it re-segregates) it will not be by appealing to the “courts” or the “justice” system. It will be pure power, out of the barrel of a gun. Not today, and not tomorrow, but it will not be a very long time either.

TC
TC

TruNews mentioned that there was a John Roberts listed in Epstein’s flight manifests. The Obamacare vote makes more sense in that light. I suspect every single justice has something in their closet, otherwise they’d never get the job.

mark
mark

TC,

Hmmm…I had not known that maybe he was blackmailed for two reasons?

(see below)

Outwitlibs
Outwitlibs

You are correct about Roberts; he’s a kiss-a$$ liberal wearing a “conservative” hat. But I completely disagree with your analysis of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. These men have upheld the constitution when the real libs have voted against what is written. In American Legion vs American Humanist Assn., Alito was joined by Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas, Beyer and Kagan, with Soromayer and Ginsburg decent. This ruling upheld the establishment of a Cross on public land, a decision that could have been argued it violates the First Amendment. This shows me that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch ARE conservative judges. Kagan, Sotomayor, and RBG are libs to the core.

Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly

Outwit, That Peace Cross decision was a cheap way to throw a bone to the rubes, in my opinion. It did nothing to alter the essential direction of the court toward enforced atheism, the public Cross having been devalued as a religious icon. When someone sues to stop trannies from running elementary schools, or limiting the power to tax and imprison, we shall see again that the USSC is entirely captured by the libs, and without any important exception. I wish it were not so, and I hope it changes for the better, but do not expect it to improve until after a catastrophic collapse.

mark
mark

Outwitlibs,

Roberts was successfully blackmailed by Obama over the way he and his wife adopted their boy and girl from Ireland, he is not a wild card since his tortured Obamacare insane ruling, he is card up the Left’s sleeve.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Roberts likes to win above all else and when ACB replaces RBG, he will side with the conservative side and 6-3 will replace 5-4 for a generation
I would still like to see Thomas retire so Trump can name a younger replacement, but he,like RBG, has said he will stay on for another ride.

mark
mark

I hadn’t thought about a younger Thomas…good point.

miforest
miforest

the dems weren’t the only ones to celebrate the diminishing of the ranks of the globalist,open borders, cheap labor at all cost, trump hating gop establishment by one. the Koch’s are whats wrong with the GOP.

Stucky

She’s like John McCain with a neck doily; he drove us up the wall too, but as a group we did not wish cancer on him.

Ummm ….wrong!

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“We conservatives don’t want people to die simply because they have different political beliefs.”

Ummmmm …… wrong again!!

Mac
Mac

I for one won’t shed a tear when #RBG finally succumbs to her latest malignant tumor, because she has been a malignant tumor on the court, a cancer eating away at the Bill of Rights, especially the #2A, for decades.

Stucky

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Passing Could Be A Disaster for the GOP

It was widely reported U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been receiving radiation treatment for pancreatic cancer, obviously a serious condition deserving of serious media attention. Any decent person would — of course — put aside partisan politics, and wish the eminent jurist a speedy and uncomplicated recovery.

Such sentiments from the left are in short supply. In fact, their lack of basic human decency is horrific.

Witness the appalling statement from “comedian” Bill Maher regarding the death of David Koch from prostate cancer.

“I’m glad he’s dead,” the HBO host said Friday on an episode of his show, Real Time. “I hope the end was painful.”

Yesterday David Koch, who funded climate-science deniers for decades died of prostate cancer. Mourners have been asked that in lieu of flowers to just leave their car engines running. pic.twitter.com/YvBrDf6Pui
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) August 24, 2019

Bill Maher’s remarks were mirrored by equalling appalling sentiments from Marty Kelley — the fittingly childishly nom de plumed, “Doktor Zoom” — in a full article at the scurrilous Wonkette blog entitled, Yr Wonkette Says Only Good Things About The Dead. David Koch Is Dead. Good.

But we are all subject to mortality at any moment and, even more so, respecting an 86-year-old battling a potentially deadly illness.

If, unfortunately, Justice Ginsburg should succumb, the thinking among some Republicans is that this would open up another seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. It would shift the balance of the High Court further to the right, for decades. Rulings would firmly favor conservatism by a 6 to 3 margin.

This is essentially correct. But there could very well be a major political price to pay for it.

There is no doubt whatsoever many Republicans — unhappy with the choice of then-candidate Donald Trump — held their nose and voted for him to secure the U.S. Supreme Court. Such statements were made verbatim by the likes of former House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, to name just a few.

Since every vote counted in a close election decided by swing states, the ideological balance of power on the U.S. Supreme Court clearly was a deciding factor in President Trump’s election.

It could reasonably be argued that the bulk of the people who voted for President Trump with closed noses did so because of the Court. They would not have the incentive to do so again if President Trump places a new conservative justice before the next election.

It is quite possible conservatives who did not vote in 2012 and unexpectedly voted in huge numbers in 2016. will not vote in 2020 if the Court was already secure at 6 to 3.

There is a way out for the GOP and especially President Trump’s re-election chances. Ironically, it’s the “Biden rule.” Should Justice Ginsburg pass before the end of the year or early in 2020, the “Biden rule” becomes the escape route.

In 1992, then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Joe Biden said he would block President George H.W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominee because it was an election year. He argued the “American people should have a voice in the decision.” Senator Mitch McConnell subsequently cited this “Biden rule” to justify disallowing a vote on President Barack Obama’s late-term nominee, Merrick Garland.

If Justice Ginsburg passes before the end of the year, it would behove the Trump Administration to give as many months thought to a replacement as needed to run out the clock before the first of January 2020. Afterward, the double precedent of the Biden rule can be put in place with no wiggle room for Democratic hopefuls to complain.

It’s worth noting David Axelrod has already squealed about the country being “torn apart”. But President Trump will be looking to the voice of the people to assist the appointment process through the ballot box in November of 2020, as Mr. Biden so wished in 1992.

The upside would be that the nose-holders would have to once again hold their noses for perhaps an even more vital U.S> Supreme Court appointment. The prospect of a 6 to 3 majority deciding dearly-held principles would give meaning to President Trump’s message of “vote for me and I will deliver the court.”

It would be a significant get out the vote inventive and campaign message.

Admittedly, there are downsides.

President Trump might lose his bid for re-election and Democrats would appoint the next justice. But even if they win the presidency they might not gain a majority in the U.S. Senate. There is still a decent change Justice Ginsburg’s replacement would be more a moderate member of the liberal minority.

If Justice Ginsberg passes before the election — particularly after January — the Biden rule might once again come to haunt Democrats.

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Passing Could Be A Disaster for the GOP

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I do not see the republicans holding the Senate if they lose the presidency. They have many more toss up seats in play than the Dems and I do not see the dem voters splitting their votes on Pres & Senate.

I say, GO FOR IT and nominate Barrett. I would rather have a sure 5-3-1 than 4-3-1-open. Thomas does not have many more years left and he is solidly on the side of the Constitution.

Annie
Annie

Both “sides” have a fairly large contingent gleeful about deaths on the other “side”. You can argue about which “side” is more bloodthirsty, but what’s the point?

Pat
Pat

Shes been dead for over a year already going back to the “Weekend at Ruth’s” memes. They are gonna use this as fodder to try to bolster the lib vote in 2020. My guess she will pass officially a couple weeks before november 2020. Mark this prediction!!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

The hysteria in the Dem camp is out of control. Trump’s job approval is 49% with Hispanics and 28% with Blacks. Promising to destroy the economy with minority unemployment and wage growth at levels not seen in decades, if ever, will drive minorities to vote for Trump in record numbers. DOW 30,000 will shut up all the suburban gasbags too.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

What’cha wanna bet the nominee will be this woman: Amy Coney Barrettcomment image

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/07/203511/women-supreme-court-trump-nominee-kennedy-retirement

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