{"id":4446,"date":"2018-07-05T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/dershowitz-versus-the-dems\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T15:06:14","slug":"dershowitz-versus-the-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/dershowitz-versus-the-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz versus the Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;Chris Cathcart writes,<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">When it&#39;s Alan Dershowitz saying this stuff, you&#39;d better believe the Democratic Party is going off the deep end. But it&#39;s probably too late to expect much sanity.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-\">\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">\u201cI won\u2019t let the Democrats steal my party from me. I want to regain the center,\u201d <a href=\"When%20it&#39;s Dersh saying this stuff, you better believe the Democratic Party is going off the deep end.  But it&#39;s probably too late to expect much sanity.  \u201cI won\u2019t let the Democrats steal my party from me. I want to regain the center,\u201d Dershowitz told WABC Radio\u2019s \u201cCurtis and Cosby\u201d show, noting that he will remain a Democrat as \u201cas long as there\u2019s some chance the Democratic Party can return to normalcy.\u201d  \u201cI want to make sure that the radical Left, the woman who got elected in the Bronx and Queens to Congress on the Democratic ticket, that they and Sanders and others don\u2019t represent the Democratic Party,\u201d he continued, referring to socialist Ocasio-Cortez who pulled off a shock victory last week against incumbent Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley.  \u201cI want a fight within the Democratic Party to restore it to the days when it was a great centrist party, when it united people rather than divided people,\u201d he added.\">Dershowitz told<\/a> WABC Radio\u2019s \u201cCurtis and Cosby\u201d show, noting that he will remain a Democrat as \u201cas long as there\u2019s some chance the Democratic Party can return to normalcy.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-\">\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-\">\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">\u201cI want to make sure that the radical Left, the woman who got elected in the Bronx and Queens to Congress on the Democratic ticket, that they and Sanders and others don\u2019t represent the Democratic Party,\u201d he continued, referring to socialist Ocasio-Cortez who pulled off a shock victory last week against incumbent Democratic Rep. Joseph Crowley.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">\u201cI want a fight within the Democratic Party to restore it to the days when it was a great centrist party, when it united people rather than divided people,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It shows how deranged and self-destructive the Dems have become when they turn on Alan Dershowitz, one of the finest legal minds in the country, a man invariably worth listening to, a Democrat and civil libertarian who voted for Hillary.&#0160; He is as intelligent as Nancy Pelosi is stupid, and as decent as Maxine Waters is vile.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">When Dershowitz speaks I grab a notebook. Just the other night on Fox he brought up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/stare_decisis\">stare decisis<\/a> and I took note. He discussed in an even-handed way its pros and cons. To listen to Dershowitz is to learn something about the law, while to listen to Pelosi is to learn something about her addled mental state.&#0160; &#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_gmail-_1mf aolmail_gmail-_1mj\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Will the Democrat Party return to normalcy? I don&#39;t think so. It will be interesting to see how long Professor Dershowitz remains a Dem.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;Chris Cathcart writes, When it&#39;s Alan Dershowitz saying this stuff, you&#39;d better believe the Democratic Party is going off the deep end. But it&#39;s probably too late to expect much sanity. \u201cI won\u2019t let the Democrats steal my party from me. I want to regain the center,\u201d Dershowitz told WABC Radio\u2019s \u201cCurtis and Cosby\u201d show, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/dershowitz-versus-the-dems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dershowitz versus the Dems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}