Let Him Eat Cake, Or At Least In Peace
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Phil Murphy
I’ve been working on political campaigns and with candidates and causes for a long time, longer than I care to admit, since before email. I remember when email was becoming acceptable and calling reporters and assignment desks and asking if they preferred press releases being sent by fax or email and most answering fax.
I also remember there were certain rules. Among those rules were you never went to a candidate’s home and you always left family out of it. Of course, there were (and are) exceptions to every rule. For example, if a family member injected themselves into a campaign then they got what they asked for.
This leads me to last night when a woman decided it was a good idea to curse out Governor Phil Murphy as he was eating dinner with his family at a restaurant.
Now, before you start with the hate emails, private messages and stupid comments I do not have an issue with the woman’s opinion of Murphy. In fact, I agree with her assessment, he is “such a dick.” One of his staffers once told a public relations client of mine that the client should not deal with me because I say bad things about the Governor on the radio. Whatever! Glad to know the guv (or at least his people) listens, Murphy should call-in some time.
While do I have at least one reason to dislike our governor, I do have an issue with harassing the man at a restaurant when he was with his family.
I had an issue with leftists when they harassed former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen or former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders at restaurants.
Most of the people who read this blog had a problem with the harassment of Trump administration officials being at restaurants.
The problem is I now see people I know for a fact had issues with Trump administration officials being harassed at restaurants on social media praising the woman for harassing Murphy. There is at least one radio personality who was angry at the harassment of Trump administration officials praising the move.
You cannot have it both ways! If you thought it was wrong for Republicans to be harassed then it is wrong the other way.
But I have to admit I saw this coming. Last evening I was talking with a north Jersey Democrat friend of mine – on Messenger, because he is a millennial and that’s how they talk – basically we were both agreeing that politics is all screwed up because what used to be off limits no longer is off limits, we agreed it was happening before President Trump and that it just gets worse with each administration. The conversation ended with me telling him to “Wait till we see how the right pays the left back for all the #notmypresident and impeach shit.”
If last night is any indication of things to come it looks like the payback for the #notmypresident and impeach garbage is on its way and it isn’t going to be pretty.
I’m not so sure a harassment strategy is going to work and I’m doing my best to remember that two wrongs don’t make a right. I’m mostly hopeful that my fellow Republicans who said it was wrong when the left was harassing people we support means they understand it would be wrong for us to do it.
In other words don’t be a hypocrite! We can beat the Democrats, even Murphy, on the issues! Republicans didn’t order COVID patients to be placed in nursing homes, Murphy did. Republicans didn’t let criminals out of jail because of COVID, Murphy did. Republicans didn’t shut down New Jersey’s economy, Murphy and the Democrat-controlled legislature did.
I’m not saying don’t fight hard. I’m not saying don’t fight dirty. Get down in the gutter with the Democrats and beat them. Just don’t be hypocrites. Let them eat in peace.
And because I agree with the woman who in the video said Murphy is “such a dick,” here is the video for those who have not seen it:
