‘Lock her up’ is the chant of a banana republic - By Jennifer Rubin

[DonViejo]

Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective.


July 20 at 1:30 PM

It’s become a running theme at the Republican convention. From the podium and the delegates comes the refrain, “Lock her up!” The suggestion is that Hillary Clinton was not just wrong, negligent or dishonest but should be imprisoned. In lieu of policy disagreements we now criminalize the opposing party’s nominee.

Some Republicans will argue that she should have been prosecuted for her handling of emails. But you know, she wasn’t. She’s been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. The verdict now will be a political one, decided at the ballot box. The zeal to not only beat but imprison one’s opponents has never been the basis for a national party’s presidential campaign. Until now.

When leftwing anti-war activists demanded that President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney be prosecuted for war crimes the right screamed foul. How dare they take political differences and convert them into legal inquests! Now the right has apparently decided if you cannot beat the netroots you might as well join them.

The Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal wrote in September, 2008: “For those who do not inhabit the fever swamps, it should be obvious that prosecuting on the basis of policy difference – circumventing the impeachment mechanism put into the Constitution for just this purpose – would cripple the operation of government. And not just Iraq or other things one party or the other may dislike, but everything–guns, butter, and all.”

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[Her Sister]

1. Chris Christie's Kangaroo Trial...

[Freddie]

2. Jennifer Rubin was swooningly in love with Romney 4 years ago

An actual voice of reason from the other side. Maybe she'll see the light and join us. Then again she'd probably lose her job at WaPo if she did.

[C_U_L8R]

3. There are so many layers to their hate cake

From woman hate... to liberal hate ... racial, economic, religious,
you name it republicans are seething with hate. They're have
defined themselves by their hate. Just hateful people.
And when they say Lock Her Up, they are betraying the very
Constitution they claim to love so much. Lock Her Up applies to
any and all of us. Republicans hate us. They want to destroy us.
And I'm not kidding. we should take their words very seriously.

[LiberalLoner]

5. +1

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Oh so now even this psycho wants to pretend this is all someone else's doing. It's

your fucking piece of shit party and you sure didn't help when it would've counted.

[L. Coyote]

6. Mob mentality is nothing new. It certainly is dangerous and a symptom of mass ignorance.

I'm just hoping this kind of absolute crap results in a solid blue Congress in 2017.

Meanwhile, Hillary tweeted "Vote your conscience"