With all the polls projecting that the Republicans will win big in November, some of us have been waiting for the Right to bollocks up the situation. Vladimir Putin, with his unprovoked attack on and invasion of Ukraine, has given the clueless Right the opportunity to go for broke on the bollocksing. I wish those on the Right would remember an old but useful phrase:

Check thyself before thee wrecks thyself, you idiot.”

I love my brothers and sisters on the Right, but Holy Secretariat, they can screw up a one horse race. I will give you three prime examples:

1. President George H.W. Bush, in 1988, pledged “Read my lips, no new taxes”, that line was written by Peggy Noonan. Shortly thereafter, the Democrats goaded Bush 41 into raising taxes and he lost to Bill Clinton.

2. President Clinton got caught with his hand in the humidor. He was playing reindeer games with intern Monica Lewinsky. Republicans could not claim the moral high ground. Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an affair with a House staffer who would become his third wife Calista Bisek (now Gingrich).

3. Donald Trump was duly elected President and many, many Republicans behaved as though he was a “smelly Walmart shopper”. Afraid they wouldn’t be invited to the elite parties in D.C., the Republicans didn’t push Trump’s agenda and lost the House in 2018.

I could name a dozen more examples, but those three will do. Check any search engine and you will find all of them you wish.

Then came Putin and Ukraine. And, up speaks Senator Lindsey Graham. Remember that Graham is not only a Senator, but is also an Air Force Lawyer. Graham is advocating on television for an insider to take Putin out:

🇺🇸#BREAKING: US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) calls for someone in Russia needs to step up to the plate and "take out" Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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— Ukraine News 🇺🇦 (@UkraineNews0) March 4, 2022

Putin needs to get gone, but I don’t think we need a sitting U.S. Senator calling it out. Don’t forget that Graham also called for the January 6 protesters to be shot in the Capitol. Double check yourself, Graham.

Douglas Murray, the British political commentator, is a favorite of mine. He wrote the books “The Madness of Crowds” and “The Strange Death of Europe” reviewed by Victory Girls’ Darleen. You can read her review here. Murray wrote a column for The Spectator on the apparently Putin loving Right, “What the right gets wrong about Putin”. He lists examples of egregiously stupid comments and behavior by our brothers and sisters:

While the West has deranged itself with assaults on its own history, on biology and much more, an assortment of conservatives have come to see Putin as some kind of counterweight. A bulwark – even an admirable corrective – to the madness of our own societies.

As a guest on Steve Bannon’s talk show recently said: ‘The Russian people still know which bathroom to use.’ Of course knowing which bathroom to use isn’t everything. Certainly it is no basis for a foreign policy. But such shorthand has become commonplace.

There are those, for instance, who admire Putin for his embrace of the Orthodox Church. Why do our own political leaders not stand up for the Christian faith in such a sincere and totally uncynical way, they wonder.

Putin is not a counterbalance to anything. He is a deranged psychopath. It has long been rumored that he had apartment buildings in Moscow blown up in 1999 to blame upon Chechens. He doesn’t think twice about having dissidents poisoned. There is no benefit to anyone on any side in supporting Putin.

Speaking of supporting Putin, Murray writes:

At the furthest extreme is America’s tiny white nationalist fringe, such as those at the America First Political Action Conference at which Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at the end of last month. That conference was made up of wannabe fascists who follow an especially repugnant little anti-Semite called Nick Fuentes. The crowd actually chanted ‘Putin, Putin, Putin’ before the ignoramus congresswoman took to the stage. She pretends to have heard none of this.

Marjorie, check yourself. If you didn’t hear the crowd chanting for Putin, double check yourself.

Those on the Right denigrating our military also need to double check themselves:

This too has become a theme on part of the American and European right. We are weak, Putin is strong. We are dumb, he is smart. We obsess over stupid minutiae, Putin gets the big picture. As Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers said very recently: ‘Putin’s military gets Ukraine. Our military gets trannies and face masks.’ Of course we shall see if Putin gets Ukraine, let alone holds it. And we are already seeing how much genius there is in his unprovoked invasion. My suspicion is that most people will slink away from this position. But it is one they never had to assume in the first place.

Say whatever you want about those at the Pentagon and some Commanding Generals, like Chris Donahue of the 82nd Airborne Division, but do NOT ever denigrate the Joes. The average member of our military knows his/her stuff. DO NOT.

Yes, our elites are cray-cray in a big way. The military and the average American still knows the score. Finally, from Murray:

Perhaps it was inevitable that the right would get fed up with this. What was not inevitable was the conclusion that a portion of them decided to adopt.

Perhaps they will recognise their error now, and accept that it is possible to admit your own society has gone a bit crazy but that the man in the Kremlin has gone crazier still. Conservatives used to pride themselves on being able to do two things at once. So it is now. We should be able to walk and chew Putin at the same time.

In other words, Check thyself before thee wrecks thyself, you idiot.” Your country needs you.

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