Michael Smerconish: Representative George Santos Gets Hit Hard With House Ethics Report

Source:Michael Smerconish- talking about soon to be former U.S. Representative George Santos (Republican, New York)

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From Michael Smerconish 

“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”

― George Carlin" 

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George Carlin really makes my whole point about Representative George Santos and I could rest my case here, but I'll explain anyway how the Carlin point about politicians, makes my point about George Santos.

We get the government that we deserve, we get the politicians that we deserve, democracy has consequences, etc. But what does that mean? What we're now learning about George Santos in 2023, was available more than a year ago. His own people were resigning from his campaign and trying to get him to drop out of his U.S. House race because they saw him as a fraud. 

George Santos makes the whole case about the importance not just of opposition research, but political self-examination, doing an intelligence report about yourself and seeing how the other side and media are going to try to hit you. Then seeing if there is anything in your background that can hurt you. As well as is there too much that can hurt you and is it even worth running for office at all. 

The opposition research is your own campaign doing an intelligence report on your opponent and seeing if there are any real ethical problems with your opponent and not just the partisan attacks that campaigns throw back at each other, but real ethical problems with your opponent that could make that person really unfit for elected office.

Robert Zimmernan who was George Santos opponent in that 2022 New York House race, was on CNN last night pretty much blaming everyone else for why we didn't know about George Santos before he was elected to the House last year. He said it was the job if the Democratic Campaign Committee and the media to get and report all the information about Santos that he was a fraud, and conman, crook, and even criminal. 

Robert Zimmernan also said that his campaign did do some opposition research on Santos and got a lot of it right. Well, if that's the case, how come the Zimmerman Campaign didn't bother to report any of that information? Maybe they actually didn't want to win, or something, I don't know. Just because someone runs for office, doesn't prove that they actually want to win. 

Everything that we know about George Santos today, was available 13 months ago. But the media and and the Zimmernan Campaign didn't bother to report it. Or, the voters in that House district simply didn't care. Maybe their attitude was, George Santos can't be any more crooked than the average politician. Maybe they decided they don't like Robert Zimmerman. Maybe their attitude was: "George Santos is a lying sleazebag and conman. But at least he's not Robert Zimmerman." 

Or, to go by the George Carlin rule, they decided that they get the politicians that they deserve and decided that they deserve a man who lives off the backs of others, including people who work hard for a living and struggle just to get by, even in an era of high inflation and interest rates. Why not vote for someone who lives off of them not just for the luxuries in life, but to pay for their own rent, food, the basic necessities in life.

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