Boycotting Girl Scout Cookies? Really?
The View from the Middle
On October 27th, Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by the Senate with a 52 to 48 vote to become an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Amy graduated #1 in her class at Notre Dame law school and had her academic work published in Columbia, Cornell, University of Virginia, Texas and of course Notre Dame’s Law Reviews. She would teach at George Washington University, the University of Virginia and finally at Notre Dame.
Ms. Barrett clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia for two years after graduation. Then, after teaching for about 15 years, primarily at Notre Dame, she was nominated by President Trump to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017. She is an extremely competent and well qualified jurist who would have received overwhelming support in the Senate if they were actually performing their role of “advise and consent” to the President. Scalia, for example, received 98 votes in the Senate in ’86 and Ginsburg received 96 votes in ’93 despite their extremely different personal ideologies, because they were, quite simply, well qualified for the court. In today’s environment, where the minority party believes their role in the confirmation process has changed to “search and destroy”, her 52-48 vote reflects her absolutely superb qualifications.
So, as you might imagine, The Girl Scouts of America sent out a tweet congratulating her on this incredible accomplishment while also recognizing the other four women who have achieved the same position; Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. For an organization whose purpose is to, “Prepare young girls for a lifetime of Leadership, Success and Adventure” Amy Coney Barrett is a shining example of what a woman can do! Anything!!
But the vicious, crazy, out-of-touch, Marxist left had to say “how dare you”. They attacked The Girl Scouts so viciously that they had to take down their tweet and apologize for sending it. The attacks came from Ayanna Pressley, a sitting Congresswoman and celebrities like Actress Amber Tamblyn and Actor Zach Braff and even included threats to boycott Girl Scout cookies. Really? Now the left wants to punish and destroy little girls for having the audacity to congratulate a woman for being confirmed to The Supreme Court? What’s next, fire-bombing a pro-life lemonade stand for having a different opinion?
Can we all agree that this attack on The Girl Scouts is crazy and even dangerous? For these lefties, freedom of thought is now unacceptable. They now believe that other opinions have to be crushed. People must be made to feel afraid to have a thought that conflicts with their ideology. Even though their congratulatory tweet included Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, Obama appointees, it was deemed objectionable because it included the brilliant but originalist Justice, Amy Coney Barrett. The message is clear, you aren’t a woman unless you are a progressive. So much for women’s rights.
And one of the claims being made by the left, through their candidate for President, is that they will to “Unite” the country? Bologna! For them, unity only comes if all Americans totally submit to their wildly left, Marxist, platform. For them, unity comes from eliminating freedom of thought and bludgeoning everyone, even little girls, into compliance. As a country built on liberty and freedom, we must denounce this kind of totalitarian thought control. If Ronald Reagan were still alive, he would tell The Girl Scouts to, “Put that tweet back up” and tell the hate-mongers that we will not be shaken by their depraved tactics.
Her sorority in college, Kappa Delta, had to kneel before the same leftist mob and remove their congratulatory tweet as well. Because, you know, you can only support liberal women or else it doesn’t count as women’s rights. Sad!
ReplyDeletegood article, what happened here is really disgusting
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