C-J weighs in on Carroll's speech, CORRECTLY finds "stunning hypocrisy" and political motivation.
No matter how anyone may feel about the C-J or the UNFORTUNATE feud between Gov. Fletcher and his "wingman" Steve Pence, one has to have found Senator Julian Carroll's speech on the Senate floor chastising Pence and urging his resignation to be proportionally BIZZARE. And for that, and other reasons, including my earlier post questioning the political motivation of a Democrat who is anxious to seize control of the Governor's mansion for his fellow Democrats, is why this C-J editorial should hit home HARD.
Labels: Democratism, Kentucky politics, Public Service, Republicanism
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 10:51 AM
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Who was BRUTUS?
Follow this link: http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editorial/16824562.htm
Wrong roles
Poor Gov. Ernie Fletcher; he can't even get his historical analogies right.
When Lt. Gov. Steve Pence endorsed Republican candidate Anne Northup, a Fletcher campaign spokesman called Pence a "Brutus."
This was a reference to Marcus Junius Brutus, the Roman senator who plotted against and helped kill Julius Caesar. It is often considered an act of treachery because Caesar was Brutus' protector and political mentor.
What Fletcher seems to have forgotten was that Caesar was killed because he had ended the Roman Republic and had become a tyrant.
Brutus' method, stabbing his political opponent, was bad, and the result, a bloody civil war, was worse. But the fact was that Caesar had destroyed Rome's democracy, and Brutus was trying to save it.
While Brutus is often a symbol of betrayal, he is more commonly considered a hero for ending Caesar's reign. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Mark Antony calls Brutus "the noblest Roman of them all."
This is just another unfortunate example of how Fletcher and his administration speak and act without thinking or doing any research.
Fletcher certainly isn't a tyrant, but he is a fool.
Well, check out Wikipedia's take on Brutus.
The phrase -- Sic semper tyrannis ("Thus always to tyrants") -- is attributed to Brutus at the assassination of Julius Caesar (and to Wilkes Booth at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln).
Here's a link to Mark Hebert's video interview with Steve Pence.
Daggers unsheathed.
Northup sets tone.
Read Frankfort Follies.
Interesting information!
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