Trump doesn’t like Liz Cheney, or her campaigning for Kamala Harris.
A few days before the 2024 election he told an Arizona rally, “She’s a radical war hawk — let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.” The crowd cheered. (See story here.)
The next day, Kamala Harris told a Wisconsin rally, “This must be disqualifying.”
Who is she kidding?
“Disqualifying” is a word that gets batted around a lot. It’s basically a slang expression that means, “This person shouldn’t hold public office.”
But that concept has lost all meaning, thanks to Republican grassroots voters, for whom no behavior is shocking enough to dissuade them from voting for a repulsive candidate. The candidate could steal their dog and eat it, and they’d still vote for him.
So, what is disqualifying? If we’re talking about candidates for president, the following are disqualifying: 1. Under age 35. 2. Not a natural born citizen. 3. Banned from holding office by impeachment or the (apparently unenforceable) insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. Nothing else qualifies.
Thus, if voters want to elect a convicted felon who gropes women, lusts for his own daughter, is corrupt and a serial liar, and is disintegrating physically and mentally, because they like his promise to be a fascist dictator, they can do that. Neither the government, nor a committee of citizens, can dictate who can be elected to our nation’s highest office, any more than they can censor candidate speeches. That’s the beauty of democracy.
If you don’t want deplorable voters electing deplorable candidates, it takes responsible voters able to think straight. I’m not sure we have enough of them. I guess we’ll find out in a few days.
Photo below: This looks like a “WTF???” gesture to me.
