DID ANDY BESHEAR COMMIT AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION?
When Is The First Amendment Not Applicable?
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Less than two weeks ago I published: ANDY BESHEAR <---> TIM WALZ. The purpose of that article was to make the case that the once prospective Vice Presidential candidate for Kamala Harris, Andy Beshear, is no different than Tim Walz the governor of Minnesota who shepherded a repeal of law that required that abortions that resulted in a live birth be reported and that supportive/life saving care be provided to that infant. As a result of the Walz effort, in Minnesota last year FIVE babies who survived abortion attempts were left to die alone on a table with no supportive care and most certainly without the warm embrace of their mothers whom they would never know.
In that article I cautioned that Andy Beshear was no less toxic than Tim Walz. Yesterday Beshear proved me right when he railed at JD Vance’s alleged comment about children resulting from rape or incest. In an interview with Mika Brzezinski during yesterday’s (8/20/2024) session of the Democrat National Convention Beshear was asked about Vance’s position on abortion. You can watch that interview here. The short story is that Beshear falsely accused Vance of calling rape “inconvenient”, a lie that was first disclosed as such by Politico in 2022.
According to Politico reporter, Amy Sherman, this is what JD Vance really said:
In a September 2021 interview, J.D. Vance was asked whether anti-abortion laws should include an exception for rape and incest victims. He replied: “Two wrongs don't make a right. At the end of day we are talking about an unborn baby. What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded?”
When asked again about rape and incest exceptions for abortion, Vance said: “The question portrays a certain presumption that is wrong. It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society.”
No where did JD Vance suggest that rape or incest were simply inconvenient yet here is what Andy Beshear said to Brzezinski last night:
While discussing reproductive rights to MSNBC from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Tuesday, Beshear pushed back on previous remarks from Vance in which he described pregnancy by rape as “inconvenient.”
“I mean, think about what some people had had to go through because of these laws,” Beshear said to host Mika Brzezinski. “I mean, JD Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape ‘inconvenient.’ Inconvenience is traffic. I mean, make him go through this.”
I expect more, much, much more from my governor than to repeat a lie that had been debunked two years ago. But even worse is the suggestion that IF JD Vance would only be made to share in the experience of a family member being raped and impregnated he might change his story.
In politics there is rhetoric and then there is vicious and malicious rhetoric. The suggestion that JD Vance should experience the horror of a family member’s rape clearly put Beshear’s commentary in the latter category.
JD Vance is due a public apology from Governor Andy Beshear and so are the people of Kentucky and the rest of the Nation. But instead of offering that apology and moving on Andy Beshear did what all democrats have been doing lately when caught in the horror of their own words - he doubled down
“But it’s sad that he lacks the empathy to be able to put himself in a different position and to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom, is so important in the first place. Obviously I’d never wish harm on anyone. It just … again, deflection, trying to make himself and Donald Trump the victims.”
Again, just like his first statement Beshear’s attempt to walk back his dangerous rhetoric only compounded it by accusing Vance of lacking “empathy” and for “deflecting” from the real issue while making himself and Donald Trump the real “victims”. Victims of what is not at all clear but it sounded good to Beshear. However, to Beshear the real issue, has nothing at all to do with JD Vance’s clearly stated position reported by Politico two years ago.
It would have been so much easier; so much more healing if Beshear had simply said: ‘I want to apologize to JD and his family, to the people of Kentucky whom I have let down, and to all the people of America who took my ill chosen words as a call to do harm to a member of JD’s family.’ But he didn’t.
Andy Beshear, “wished” harm on another person for purely political reasons. In Beshear’s mind it may have been made in the abstract. But to the mind of someone who perceives Vance as a potential impediment to their cause there is nothing abstract about it. In fact, Democrats have argued that Donald Trump’s rhetoric incited the January 6, 2020 riot at the U.S Capitol — even though they have been unable to produce the precise language used by Trump to cause that incitement. Andy Beshear’s language is different; his call to harm another is clear.
Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump just one month ago Joe Biden asked that we “turn down the temperature” of our political rhetoric. It is was a request that has fallen on deaf ears. Andy Beshear represents the worst of a Democrat party that chose a vice presidential candidate who allowed five babies to die alone on a table after having survived an abortion. At a minimum Beshear should be sanctioned by the Kentucky legislature and a hearing should be held to determine whether Beshear has committed an impeachable offense by calling for harm to another individual for political purposes.
The Governor and all civil officers shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanors in office; but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this Commonwealth; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be subject and liable to indictment, trial and punishment by law. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Sections 66-68 governing)
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Commandment IX
“Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations.” Psalm 27:12
Union, Kentucky
21 August 2024