Robin Hayes’ deplorable hyperbole

by | Oct 24, 2016 | Editor's Blog, NC Politics | 10 comments

Robin Hayes’ case for supporting the Republican Party in the election is one big mess. His hyperbole is over the top and his chief rationale for voting for Trump is sham. Hayes calls the election the “republic’s last stand.”

First, if anybody threatens the future of the republic, it’s clearly Donald Trump. He’s the only candidate who has threatened to reject the outcome of the election and the will of the people. The peaceful transfer of power is one of the fundamental principles that has made this country both exceptional and successful. Trump, and apparently Robin Hayes, believe chaos and civil unrest are preferable to Hillary Clinton.

Second, Hayes argues that the Supreme Court is the primary reason to support Donald Trump. He says the impact of the Supreme Court nominee could last for 100 years. That may be true but the GOP has the opportunity, right now, to appoint Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, a man that even Republicans have praised. Instead, the GOP Senate has ignored its constitutional duty and left the Court short-handed for a year. Again, they, not the Democrats, are proving to be the threat to our republic.

Hayes’ assertion that the republic is on the brink of collapse is absurd, inflammatory, and irresponsible. He’s just shy of calling on people to reject the outcome of the election or take extrajudicial measures to resist Democratic wins. Combined with Trump’s claim that the election is rigged, Hayes is subtly encouraging and justifying domestic unrest following the election.

Last month, Hillary Clinton was rebuked for saying that about half of Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket full of deplorables.”  She apologized for the remark. Maybe she overstated it, but Robin Hayes proves that a number of Trump’s supporters are truly deplorable.

10 Comments

  1. Cary Opteris

    “He’s the only candidate who has threatened to reject the outcome of the election and the will of the people.”

    The will of the people was to have Bernie Sanders the nominee, but Donald is right when he says that the nomination was stolen from Bernie Sanders. There is proof of four ways the DNC cheated for Hillary Clinton. So in fact she has threatened the outcome of the election. As far as Trump, like many I do not feel he is trying to win. I have heard he is on the Clinton Foundation payroll, so apparently this whole thing is just advertising for his hotels. What should happen is that HC should be forced to step down and Bernie take his rightful place. Otherwise, most of Bernie’s supporters will vote for Trump or one of the other candidates to keep HC out of office.

    • Ebrun

      That’s got to be the most audacious conspiracy theory of the 2016 campaign. Nothing more ludicrous than the rumination of a disgruntled Bernie follower.

    • larry

      ha ha ha ha ha ha ….poppy cock….ha ha ha

    • Donna

      Bernie was elected Senator of Vermont as an Independent, not as a Democrat. Not until filing his paper-work with the Federal Elections Commission in his run for President did he ever self-identify as a Democrat. It seems to me this was an opportunistic move on his part and it can be no surprise that he did not receive a warm welcome from the Party establishment. Perhaps he should have remained true to his roots and run as an Independent; that would have made for an even more interesting election year.

    • A D Reed

      Snark alert: This is in response to a dingbat who wants to take Ebrun’s title away, but on the far opposite end of the crazy self-deluding spectrum. To wit:

      The will of the people — the will of the voters who participated in the Democratic Party primaries and caucuses between February and May — was to choose Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Democratic nominee. She won by nearly 4 million votes, 16+million to Bernie’s 13 million, in a contest that was fair and square. The nomination was not stolen from anyone, and there is no proof whatsoever of anything you’re babbling about. Let me explain: what you read on Breitbart and its far-left equivalent websites does not constitute “proof.” At least to anyone not wearing a tinfoil hat.

      Nor does the assertion that “I have heard [Trump] is on the Clinton Foundation payroll” constitute anything more than bizarre, morbid, and possibly certifiable fantasy.

      Gee whillikers, I have heard that some dingbat who uses an alias of “Cary Opteris” escaped a few years ago from Broughton Medical Center for the Insane in central North Carolina, and has been drinking a certain sort of Koolaid laced with bananas ever since. And is on the StormTrooper website’s payroll, to boot!

      Wow! What a terrible thing to have “heard” from someone, somewhere, sometime that I don’t quite recall.

      End of snark; real expectation and hope:
      What should happen is that the Democrats defeat enough Republicans between now and Nov. 8 that they take over both the House and Senate, so that President Clinton will be able to enact the policies enumerated in the Democratic Party’s platform, as promised. And that might well happen, since more than 80% of Bernie’s former supporters are supporting Secretary Clinton

      • A D Reed

        You’re right. I’m disgusted, too, but ever optimistic.

  2. Rick high

    Jay,

    Very funny.

  3. Jay Ligon

    Are the Democrats nominating turtles for the Supreme Court? The life space of humans is much less than 150 years, and we tend to nominate men and women in their 50s, 60s or older so we can examine their record of jurisprudence. Sea turtles can live as long as 150 years, and they might be very good at Maritime Law, but their decisions would definitely be all wet.

  4. The Analyst

    Lame Duck Barry should withdraw Garland after Hillary wins, before the Repub senate tries to approve him. Nothing short of a full-throated Huey Long type justice will do now… We need a vociferous champion of populist rights and concerns to push back against the remaining overbearing corporatist taint that the court bears. We also have to be prepared for the day Ruthie retires – hard to believe she’s carried on this long after a Pancreatic Cancer episode. I never saw her as the uber-Liberal that she has been made out to be by her detractors; certainly I’ve always been a fan. Maybe it’s these rose colored glasses and this weird dream I have that We The People will someday get control of this nation.

  5. Neal F. Rattican

    Likely as not, Congressional Republicans will live to regret having not confirmed Garland when they had a chance. Tsk, tsk.

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