The Star-Ledger‘s opinion page is about as relevant in 2017 as bathroom stall graffiti, Save Jerseyans, but if you subjected yourself to torture last weekend notwithstanding the risk to your mental health, you might’ve noticed the commentary of Brigid Callahan Harrison, a professor of political science and law at Montclair State University.
She’s one of these dime-a-dozen professional “commentators” who is really an unofficial Democrat shill for all intents and purposes, leveraging her social media account and appearances on poorly watched N.J. political programs to push the Leftist agenda and promote Democrat candidates.
That’s her right! Doesn’t make her an evil or awful person. But let’s call a spade a spade.
Her latest attempt at providing cover for the Dems nevertheless proved particularly blatant (and nonsensical). It was also revealing for anyone still laboring under the delusion that liberal, feminist womyn care a fig about promoting other women.
Down to the task at hand. In the aforementioned Sunday opinion piece, Harrison dumped all over Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, the 2017 N.J. Republican gubernatorial nominee and an accomplished female attorney and politician, declaring that “Guadagno’s performance as lieutenant governor and in her primary campaign should give voters pause.”
Her preference?
The evil white patriarchal gazillionaire, Phil Murphy (D-Goldman Sachs):
…?
It’s a familiar strand of hypocrisy. Lefties of Harrison’s stripe routinely demand “more” women in elected office and accuse Hillary Clinton’s detractors of sexism until, without shame, they callously slam the door on a fellow professional-and-qualified Republican woman when a hard-left Democratic male is on the electoral menu.
I wrote about this hypocrisy recently when Miss USA – a nuclear scientist! – was trashed by liberals as somehow unworthy of her honor for expressing conservative views on issues including the interplay between gender and wages. The example are everywhere in modern society. Swing a cat and you’ll touch a million of’em. See also the treatment of Georgia 6th’s Karen Handel.
Women who aren’t liberals (e.g. “vote their anatomy”) are castigated as traitors to their gender.
Could there be anything more sexist?
Nope. The irony is, as ever, lost on the Left.
But what’s equally goofy about Harrison’s transparently-partisan analysis is her glowing review of Phil Murphy’s incredibly reckless fiscal agenda. Murphy is advocating the following:
- At least $5 billion in new spending, including….
- $2.2 billion to “fully fund” the broken N.J. school funding formula;
- $2.5 billion to “fully fund” pension payments;
- And hundreds of millions of dollars for universal pre-K and other free goodies, all
- Paid for by… shaking down “millionaires,” closing unspecified loopholes, and taxing ghosts!
The inconvenient truth is that . Again… .
Murphy CANNOT pay for what he’s proposing.
He hasn’t tried to explain how he’d pay for it.
And yet Harrison and his other apologists expect us to believe that it’s Kim Guadagno who’s the stupid, naive, not-to-be-take-seriously a**hole in this race for declaring it’s time to stop governing by mortgaging the future with endless taxation and borrowing?
Give me a break.
Kim Guadagno won’t get a pass from feminists this cycle because she refuses to embrace their narrative.
New Jersey voters who’d still like a future in this state — and who don’t want to move to some Southern locale where “pizza” equates to ketchup on a cracker — can’t give Murphy and Harrison a pass on their nonsense. We can’t afford to anymore.
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