Here it comes. The headline in the Washington Post said it all, in more ways than one.
Knives are out for Vance in the GOP. His allies say it’s a coordinated ‘op.’
The vice president has faced a barrage of attacks recently that are unusual for their intensity and how early in the political calendar they are taking place.
In theory this was just one more boring headline in another day at the political beach.
In fact, it was a totally expected early swipe at the man the liberals who run the Washington Post see as, at this still early stage, one of two potential GOP 2028 presidential nominees.
Vice President J.D. Vance is one. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the other. There will be others, but these two are the expected heavyweights.
Safe to say, there will be more headlines like this coming from the various outlets of the liberal media. Without doubt various reporters, acting in their real roles as liberal activists, are daily scanning their own outlets -- not to mention others -- for even the hint of a story out there that can make these candidates look bad. Like Vance scheduling a helicopter for his son's golf lesson.
For those coming relatively late to the game, a look back in history can help.
Way back there in the late 1940’s there was a very bright, somewhat awkward young California Congressman named Richard Nixon. Nixon, a seriously earnest young politician stumbled on the fact that there were serious communists in the U.S. government as run by Democrats Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. One that particularly attracted his attention was a young State Department official named Alger Hiss. Based on tips and serious investigative work, Nixon went after Hiss, accusing him of being a spy for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Nixon was in fact later proved to be completely accurate about Hiss. And, in fact, Hiss was eventually convicted and did prison time.
All you-know-what broke loose before Hiss’s conviction, with the Democrat Establishment of the day rushing to Hiss’s defense. The whole episode thrust young Congressman Nixon into the headlines, which eventually thrust him into a race for U.S. Senator from California.
Nixon won. But not before the Democrats of the day had come up with a nickname for Nixon: “Tricky Dick.” In the early days of television media, not to mention the anti-GOP newspapers of the day, the nickname stuck. It followed Nixon for the rest of his life, sometimes more boisterously than others.
Moving ahead to today’s political scene, it is a reminder that when a rising political star strikes a nerve, the liberal media of the day will zero in with all manner of negative stories.
Thus the headlines now of attacks on Vice President Vance can be read with a grain of salt. And it takes no imagination to understand that if some hot story surfaces casting a negative light on Secretary Rubio, his opponents in the liberal media will jump on that story. And so too will his opponents in the GOP.
In truth, it is very safe to say that there are liberal activists in the media as this is written who are spending their time looking to get a headline in The Washington Post or elsewhere in the media that targets both Rubio and Vance. And if, in fact, another serious candidate rises from the GOP one can be sure that this person too will quickly be targeted by the liberal media.
But why, you ask?
The reason is obvious and simple. Liberal media outlets have as one of their ongoing objectives to prevent a Republican from ever getting into the White House. And when a Republican candidate does in fact overcome the liberal media opposition and wins the presidency -- a Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Trump et cetera -- one can be sure that this new President will in fact be targeted daily by this or that lefty media outlet. In fact, in this high-tech day and age that targeting would be hourly.
So when a headline like the one above appears, understand well that the real game afoot is the liberal media targeting a potential GOP president. In this case, that would be Vice President Vance.
But make no mistake, the “journalists” who are really liberal activists are doing their research, ready to roll with attacks on Secretary Rubio or anyone else on the GOP side of the line who is seen as a seriously possible potential GOP president.
Which is to say, the media targeting of the GOP 2028 candidate has begun.
