Erick Erickson is really giving the far-right a big target with this post:
I have heard all the excuses for focusing on Hunter Biden. He shows his dad is a bad dad or crooked or on the take. The leaks from his phone show Hunter is using his dad. Conservatives are obsessed with dragging Hunter and using Hunter to take his dad with him.
But Hunter Biden is the quintessential shiny object. He’s something Republicans can fixate on to distract the base from failing to do substantive things and, more importantly, no one outside the rabid base of the GOP gives a crap.
Here he tries to balance on the top rail of the RINO corral:
The base of the GOP will clap like seals and ignore there is no impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas or Attorney General Garland. There are no appropriation bills forged to fight back against the growth of government. There is no budget, just a continuing resolution that perpetually funds the government.
Sure, talk about impeachments for, what? Imaginary scandals, maybe. I dunno. It seems to be a statement of appeasement to the far-right, after riling up the base by calling favorite hate-target Hunter Biden nothing more than a distraction.
But it is a sad statement on the Republicans these days. Erickson is stuck with a Party leader who looks more and more like an unindicted criminal with every televised hearing, an ideological movement that has a self-destroying culture in the form of the RINO maneuver and the allegiance to vote straight ticket, a membership which, with the exit of the top Republicans from the Party, is devolving into a collection of self-righteous and arrogant fourth-raters, and a religious aspect which, regardless of sect name, believes it has the right to impose its theological cant on all the citizens of the United States, and they have the additional misfortune to have a majority on the SCOTUS.
He’s been trying to beat the drum and blow the bagpipe for the conservatives over the last couple of weeks, and no doubt the far-left’s own arrogance has helped a bit, but quite honestly it’s not convincing. A couple of days ago, he posted this bit of what is, frankly, gibberish.
He may find himself labeled a RINO soon, now. What then?
