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Act 1 — Intentional blindness?
How else to explain the GOP’s reaction last week after a Daily Beast report that Herschel Walker, running for the Senate as an abortion opponent, paid for a woman to have an abortion?
Even as the former football star denied it, Walker’s son called him a liar. “He has four kids, four different women. Wasn’t in the house raising one of them,” tweeted Walker’s son, Christian. “[H]ow dare you lie and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’”
The GOP response to this embarrassing elephant in their room was intentional blindness.
“Republicans stand with him,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. So much for opposition to abortion if it means losing a Senate seat.
Act 2 — More Intentional blindness?
How else to explain the silence among Senate Republicans when former President Trump said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a “death wish,” before throwing a racist barb at McConnell’s wife?
Not one of McConnell’s Senate colleagues opened their mouths to stand by him and condemn Trump. None opened their eyes to Trump’s threat and racism.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was a lonely voice among Republicans in Congress, noting that Trump’s words could lead to “violence against the Republican leader of the Senate.” She labeled his attack on McConnell’s wife “absolutely despicable.”
Cheney also noted her party’s intentional blindness. How it could be that “nobody in my party will say that’s unacceptable,” she asked.
The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page noticed the chilling GOP silence.
