DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF WILE E. COYOTE – SUPER GENIUS. At Townhall, Mike LaChance writes:
How did the coyote think this was going to help him catch the road runner?
And that’s where the Democrats are now.
They are so obsessed with their pursuit of Trump that their methods no longer look rational.
Their overconfidence is another near-perfect metaphor for Wile E. Coyote.
In an equally famous Warner Brothers show titled “Operation: Rabbit,” the coyote is paired against Bugs Bunny, who outwits him at every turn.
The coyote tells Bugs that it is pointless for him to resist his desire to catch and eat him because he is a genius. He suggests that he is smarter, faster, and stronger. His victory is so assured that there is no point in even objecting.
Does that sound familiar?
Democrats and their many allies in media pushed a conspiracy on the American public for three years, claiming that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. When that was revealed as untrue, they moved on to another ridiculous claim, not unlike Wile E. Coyote buying a large rubber band from ACME that he could strap around a large cactus, only to launch himself face-first into the ground.
These are not serious people, and they should not be taken seriously.
Well, yes. But on the other hand, at Spectator USA, Charles Lipson explores “What Pelosi really wants from impeachment:”
This drama is building to a nasty climax: a dirty campaign from now until November 2020. Trump and his allies will run on a strong economy and against a ‘do nothing’ Congress controlled by ‘radical socialists’. Democrats will run against a ‘corrupt, erratic, self-dealing Trump and his spineless supporters.’
Unless the Democrats can find a clean, competent, center-left candidate to lead them, they face a difficult task. They will need to sell the public on unpopular, brutally expensive new Washington programs. That agenda doesn’t just split the country, it splits the Democrats. What unifies them is hating Trump and everything he stands for.
Pelosi’s impeachment strategy is not separate from this electoral calculation. It’s central to it.
Don’t get cocky, to coin an Insta-phrase.