"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." Malcolm X
December 14, 2016
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Martin Sheen thinks he's still in the West Wing.
He and a posse of faded "celebrities" put out a "Dump Trump" ad, bless their little hearts. It was addressed to the Republican electors who will cast their final vote for their states on Dec. 19.
Sheen's vigilantes want "brave Republican" electors to "be heroes," and "vote their conscience," in order to "give the House of Representatives the option to select a qualified candidate for the presidency."
We thought the American voters already did that.
"We are not," they say repeatedly throughout the video, "telling the electors to vote for Hillary," but to "vote for someone who has "respect for the Constitution."
Okay.
Lindsey Graham, a presidential hopeful, who didn't make the final cut. Could he be a "someone?"
Or Gov. John Kasich? He refused to relinquish his 120 delegates during the Republican Convention, so I guess he still has them. Or Marco Rubio, who protectively held onto his 112? Or Jeb? He had three.
Of course it would be a rough row to hoe. You need 1,237 to gain the nomination. At the end of roll call, Trump had 1,725. That could be a sticky wicket.
Or the electors could vote based on electoral votes. Trump had 306, Clinton 232. You need 270 to win.
Oh. They already did that.
It's all a little depressing. If you thought winning meant winning, you were wrong. If you thought voting expressed the will of the People, it doesn't.
Martin Sheen said so.
And you can figure out what happened. The Sheen-Team went to see Hamilton, liked the reception Vice President-elect Pence got from the cast, and this spurred their new-found respect for the Constitution.
One they never had during Obama's presidency. One Obama never had, either.
Now they're using the parts of the Constitution they like, to get what they want.
If the electors bow to the death threats and hate mail they've been receiving, which Sheen doesn't mention in his video, these Hollywood types will be happy as clams.
And so will every one of the GOP candidates, especially Kasich and Graham, who dislike Trump as much as the Hollywood crowd does.
But shush! I'll tell you a secret. The Sheen team really do want the electors to vote for Hillary. But keep it under your hat.
How can you blame Sheen and the rest for their naivete? They work in an industry where conservatives need never apply.
They believe their opinions, and just the mere mention of their names, should be enough to persuade voters, like the luminaries in the video: James Cromwell, Steven Pasquale, Dominic Fumusa and Emily Tyra, just to name a few.
Beyoncé and Katy Perry thought so, too. Before the election.
These types believe money and threats and lies and Hollywood glitz are enough to dazzle the average man into voting the way Hollywood wants them to. And it was. When Obama was president.
But he isn't anymore.
Heck, give them credit for "getting out the vote," albeit a little late, while Hillary is at home, roaming the woods, and licking her post-election wounds, in, is it called, "presidential" fashion?
And I understand their motivation. Why would anyone "Hollywood" want a president who stems the flow of drugs into the U.S.? Someone who can say the words "Islamic terrorist?" Someone who thinks protecting U.S. borders and American jobs is part of what a president should do?
They wouldn't.
And the rest of us know something Sheen and Co. don't. The reason Hillary lost is as plain as the nose on your face. She was an unappealing candidate.
The cough, the lies, the lost e-mails, the fix by the FBI and DOJ after a clandestine meeting between Clinton's husband and Attorney General Lynch.
The people who voted noticed.
And the reason they voted for Trump? They liked his message and they liked him.
They still do. "He makes me happy," one voter said. "I'm not that much of a happy person, but now I'm happy."
I know what she means.
It's the cut of his jib, the way he wears his hat, the way he sips his tea...But mostly it's just being able to feel good again, after eight years of being summarily lectured to and dressed down.
To hear, "This is a great country!" "We love the cops and the military!" and "America's going to win, win, win!"
Sounds good to me.
But the Democrats aren't buying it. Neither is the media. So they keep it going, a'moaning and a'cryin'.
They want to ignore the fact that, by her gross negligence, Hillary was her own worst enemy, that she lost the election simply by being herself.
It made her a most unattractive candidate.
When will all this end? It won't. "We've only just begun," isn't just a line from an old Carpenter tune, but the new mantra for the Democratic Party.
But the fact is Donald J. won the presidency, by the will of the people. And it's legitimate. It's right there in the Constitution.
Merry Christmas!
Hold the line, America.