In an age of rage, Roger Stone could be the avatar of the times. The self-proclaimed provocateur, Stone is known to wear a t-shirt reading “Trump 2020: F**k Your Feelings.” That credo was on display this week with an attack not on Ron DeSantis but on his wife, Casey. The reason? Casey often refers to her children, a common point of reference for possible first ladies. However, the highlighting of the DeSantis children sent Stone into a signature tirade, including allegedly using a coded word for c**t to refer to Casey. Stone is a diehard supporter of Donald Trump. Nothing says unhinged, recreational rage like attacking a mother for referencing her children.
Mike Crispi posted a statement objecting to the following: “Casey Desantis campaigning: ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘Did you know I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old?’”
Stone then reportedly responded “SeeUNextTuesday,”using the common slang for the vulgar word (it is meant as a type of acronym beginning C-U). Stone has denied that he used the slur.
Of course, if those words were inserted into the posting by othres, then Stone would be expected to immediately sue for defamation.
Potential first ladies tend to talk about their families and the personal life of a candidate. Casey DeSantis has a compelling story to tell as a cancer surviver who has raised two daughters and a son. These are young children who might call the White House their home. Many people are interested in that personal or family side of candidates.
Slamming the DeSantis couple and family references is coming from both sides. The media has largely maintained unrelenting criticism of DeSantis that has at times extended to his wife, who was described on the Daily Beast dismissively as a “Walmart Melania.” On far-left sites like the DailyKos, she is constantly attacked, including criticizing her wearing of high heels in some pictures. Of course, many of these authors post anonymously so that their rage does not cause any backlash to themselves. At least Stone posts under his own name.
These types of personal attacks have become the norm in our politics, but it will only continue if good people remain silent. Many enjoy the rage. While professing great injury or cause, they like it because it gives them license to say and do things ordinarily avoided by decent people. We enable such rage by remaining silent or shrugging it off as the new normal.
I understand that campaigning spouses like Casey DeSantis must expect public scrutiny and criticism for their political claims and positions. Casey DeSantis has enraged the left over her advocacy of traditional family values and her criticism of certain transgender policies in sports and other areas. Likewise, adult children who engage in criminal acts, influence peddling or corruption are obviously legitimate subjects for public debate.
However, personal attacks for just discussing one’s family should be beyond the pale. The minute we shrug off these attacks as the new normal, it will become the new normal. We should demand more from politicians and pundits alike.
Well, Stone was persecuted through prosecution for 8 years. Had his home violently raided, sent to prison – because he supports Donald Trump. So, a bit less nitpicking from the peanut gallery who’ve endured far less than Roger Stone at the hands of the Regime. Many Trump supporters view DeSantis as a traitor, unworthy of respect, obviously Roger Stone is one of us.
I lean toward DeSantis, and will probably vote for him, unless something dramatically changes. The state of politics is sad to see these days, but has mostly always been the case. What I cannot wrap my head around, however, is that there are people out there that demean traditional family values. It is my personal opinion that the destruction of the family is the root cause of much of society’s problems. Family is everything. Anyway, I admire the DeSantis family and hope they continue to push forward as a strong family unit, to the White House.
Prof. Turley always has interesting and objective points to make. To the Left, that makes him dangerous. So they have assigned many trolls to sabotage discussion. It would be best if comments were signed with real names so that those of us who would like to discuss and read comments about the topic could do so. As it is, I’ll continue to read the Professor’s postings, but not the comments. Sad, but this is what the left has wrought.
A liberal demoncrat Mediate attack.
Hey, at least Roger Stone doesn’t cut part of the kids cock off when they are born. I guess he’s way behind in attacking children.
Or all of it, in the latest demontard fad.
Wow, let’s have a fit about Roger Stone under medaite direction when the demoncrats do worse on the daily on near every nation tv news station.
“Hey, at least Roger Stone doesn’t cut part of the kids cock off when they are born. I guess he’s way behind in attacking children.”
Wow! Like Trump’s Jewish daughter and son in law will do with their kids’ cocks when they’re born?
Will they do it with the blessing of Demented Donnie and the Trumptards? How about Roger Stone who has only been able to make a living being a shit disturber? Will anti-Semitic Trumptards approve of that in Demented Donnie’s family? Or take their vote as well as their support all the way to supporting genocidal Hamas terrorists?
Let’s have a Trumptard level fit just like Demented Donnie, The Cryin’ Queen (speaking in Trumptard so the Trumptards can understand) because somebody pointed out you don’t have to act like a cull to promote Trump if he’s your choice?
Even if he’s only your choice because any generic Republican alternative to the Soviet Democrat who appears on the ticket is always a far better choice?
I can vote for Trump even if he’s only my second choice without feeling any obligation to attack anyone who says Roger Stone is a waste of skin and rations who doesn’t make Republicans look better to independent voters and doesn’t make it easier to win elections.
But then; I am neither a Trumptard nor an anti-Semitic hate monger whose other love in life is Hamas and anybody else promising to fulfill The Final Solution for Jews including those in Trump’s family.
Wow girlie you had a fit.
Stone is the uncle in the attic. The only problem is that he doesn’t know it. He’s so wrapped up in himself, for himself, that his support is like a bridge paved with landmines.
Stone was a biog factor in Trump getting elected in 2016.
With friends like that you need more friends, Mr Bates.
What does surviving a bout with breast cancer have to do with anything ?
The victim hardship escape clause just shows how pathetic actual assessment of individuals has become.
Nothing is off the table after more than half of demoncrats made it their life mission to punch a nazi in the face and destroy the 2016 Presidency with any and every lie they could ever tell and hurl any and every insult they could possibly think of.
Desantis’ wife stuck her face out there and babbled on, so any abuse given is fair game, as we have absolutely learned since 2016 with the attacks on Trump, which are still occurring and are never called out enough, so Roger Stone who was illegally attacked by the government demoncrat crime syndicate CAN STEP IT UP 20 NOTCHES AND HE HAS MY FULL SUPPORT, which will still fall short of all the general demoncrat mouths and public attitudes.
Herr Anonymous has shrieked.
And, correctly assessed the landscape, as the ad hominem fully indicates.
It isn’t too uncommon for posts to be unrelated to the topic. Scrolling through today’s topic it appears nearly every post is unrelated.
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in [Methico] anymore.”
– Dorothy, Wizard of Oz, 1939
Stone has lost the plot.
And helped win the election again, for Trump, as you grind your teeth and wail at the sky tearing the rainbows from your inadequate frame.
or maybe you have…
To be sure, the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) committed a ridiculous, wholly unnecessary, and boorish predawn raid on Roger Stone’s house with his wife inside with absolutely no compelling rationale; their motive was petty political retribution and vengeance.
“RFK Jr. OBLITERATES Competition in New Polling”
CAN YOU SAY, SICKO, IT RUNS IN THE BLOOD?
Let’s review. Joe Kennedy was a criminal, mobster, and bootlegger who parlayed his dirty money into successful unethical equities trading while everyone else was suffering during the Great Depression before joining with the mob to buy the U.S. presidency in 1960. John Kennedy was a completely egomaniacal international playboy and buffoon who nearly plunged America and the world into nuclear war before being suckered and giving Kruschev everything he had been angling for. Bobby was terminally egomaniacal, becoming an enemy of and taking on the mob. John Junior was another fool who miscalculated, being infected with the familial form of egomania, get-there-itis, believing that he, a mortal, could prevail over God, nature, and weather simply because he was a Kennedy, taking two innocent women to their watery graves with him.
And then there is the dirty little family secret the very successfully kept deeply hidden:
“JFK, Monster”
By Timothy Noah
“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that. But before I read in the newspaper that Mimi Alford’s just-released memoir, Once Upon A Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy And Its Aftermath, described giving Dave Powers a blow job at JFK’s request and in his presence, I didn’t know that Kennedy had an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation.”
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Come on in, you damn fool Kennedy.
The water’s fine.