Tea at Trianon: Kamala Needs More Biden Voters

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Kamala Needs More Biden Voters

From The Transom:

“She has had as good of a first five weeks or last five weeks that I have seen since Barack Obama won [South Carolina‘s 2008 primary] and went on a roll and locked up the nomination,” said Jim Messina, Obama’s 2012 campaign manager who has served as an informal adviser to Harris. “But in every single battleground state, we’re still within the margin of error.”
Polls do show all the swing states within the margin of error. But the momentum, for now, appears to be with Harris. The clearest evidence of that was a Gallup poll last week that showed Democrats with a 14-point edge on which party’s voters were more enthusiastic about voting — a major shift from the organization’s March survey showing Republicans with a 4-point advantage in what was then a contest between two unpopular candidates in Biden and Trump. (Read more.)

Gold Star families are outraged. From The Daily Wire:

Gold Star families who lost their sons and daughters during the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 released a joint statement and individual statements over the weekend slamming Vice President Kamala Harris over a political attack that she made against former President Donald Trump that was filled with false statements.
Harris attacked Trump on Saturday for visiting Arlington National Cemetery to pay his respects to the 13 U.S. service members who died during the withdrawal, which was approved by Harris.
The families released a joint statement saying that they personally invited Trump to attend the event at ANC and that they were “appalled” by her attacks on social media, saying that she “disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy.”
“Vice President Harris bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons and daughters,” they said. “Despite our multiple requests for a meeting to discuss the loss of our loved ones, Vice President Harris has repeatedly ignored us, showing a complete lack of empathy and accountability. This refusal to face the consequences of her administration’s decisions is a deep betrayal to us as Gold Star families.”
“President Trump, on the other hand, has been the only Commander-in-Chief to consistently recognize the heroism of our children,” they continued. “His attendance at Arlington was not for political gain but to stand with us, to grieve with us, and to honor the legacy of those who gave everything for this nation. His leadership during his time in office was strong, and we have no doubt that if he were still Commander-in-Chief, our children would be alive today.” (Read more.)