There are seven highly accomplished, common sense, pro-life, women leaders vying for the U.S. Senate as GOP nominees. Three of them are leading their races, and another three are within single digits one month out from Election Day.
How is it possible we could be this far into this election cycle and not have heard? This fact does not fit the liberal cultural narrative. And the Democratic Party, abortion lobby, and the mainstream media are afraid of how these conservative, thoughtful women would shake up their planned stranglehold on President Trump’s judicial and executive branch nominees for the next two years or more.
Just consider how different the past month might have been with a Sen. Marsha Blackburn or Martha McSally or Leah Vukmir sitting on the Judiciary Committee, respecting the accuser, the accused, the Rule of Law, and the Constitution.
Imagine how different it could have been with just one of these leaders holding Sen. Dianne Feinstein publicly accountable for exposing the accuser against her expressed desire for confidentiality, while simultaneously sabotaging the committee’s procedure and rules of the Senate.
What an opportunity to have one or more of these women explain to Sen. Mazie Hirono why her assertion that the bedrock American legal principle of “innocent until proven guilty” should not apply in sexual assault cases is incredibly reckless and dangerous to women and men alike and indeed threatens to undermine the very fabric of our society and civic virtue.
Not surprisingly, as part of their campaigns, all seven of these leaders have been leaning into the important national discussions swirling around the Kavanaugh nomination, the merits and potential pitfalls of the #MeToo movement, as well as the role of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Senate in preserving and advancing freedom.
More importantly, however, we have also seen Karin Housley and others go on the offensive in calling out the blatant hypocrisy of the Democratic Party when it comes to sexual harassment and abuse allegations against Democrat leaders such as Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, to name a few. While no corroborating evidence was ever found in support of any allegation against Justice Kavanaugh, Ellison, Carper, and Brown have all either admitted physical abuse or had affidavits, restraining orders, or doctor’s records created contemporaneously by their accusers, detailing physical abuse when they were all adults.
As a dad who counted it a blessing during the earliest days of the #MeToo movement to have additional conversations with my teenage daughters and son about sexual harassment, respect, honor, trust, love, and good judgement, I think what some Democrats have done to try and co-opt this important and legitimate conversation in our society as a political weapon shows they care more about their power than they do about women or the vulnerable.
I’m greatly encouraged that at this critical moment we have seven women – Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Martha McSally, Leah Vukmir, Karin Housley, Susan Hutchison, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Sen. Deb Fischer – who could very well be in the U.S. Senate come January championing life, caring for the vulnerable, and fearlessly pushing back on the political hypocrisy and shameless attacks threatening families and indeed our republic.
Nathan Estruth is a husband of 26 years, father of four including a son with profound cerebral palsy, and was a Vice-President and executive at the Procter & Gamble Co. for 26 years.
