RON HART: The Democratic Party’s Great White Hope Flames Out |
RON HART: The Democratic Party’s Great White Hope Flames Out
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Eric Swalwell was forced out of the California governor’s race, then his Congressional seat, when one of the worst kept secrets in politics, his alleged sexual assaults, came to light. Whoever takes his Congressional seat best Lysol it first.
Swalwell was the rare white male face of the Democrat Party. He spent more time on CNN and MSNBC than some of their anchors. He was the Democrat attack dog, and his mentor, Nancy Pelosi, held the leash. She kept him on the Intel committee, even after he was found to be allegedly cavorting with a Chinese spy (Fang Fang), and he was on Impeachments and J6 shams as well.
Pelosi lost the Speaker’s gavel in 2023 and was offered the post of Minority Whip. She said “no” — that sounded more like something her husband would like.
As big a thorn in the Dems’ side as Swalwell was, the GOP did not push the well-known info of Swalwell’s alleged peccadillos out on him; it took fellow dirty Democrats to do it. When Swalwell was leading the Democrats in the gubernatorial polls, other Democrats did what they do best. They torpedoed him, realizing that he allegedly had a well-known “zipper........