Americans would do well to remember what our parents taught us: You can’t judge a book by its cover. So, when you look at pretty boy Adam Kinzinger—look again, look harder, look deeper.
On Wednesday night, Kinzinger, who like Liz Cheney has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show to pummel President Trump and the entire GOP:
[M]y party has just gone off the rails, and they no longer defend democracy.
Is that so?
Which party wants to get rid of the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court?
Which party manufactured the Russia/Trump collusion hoax and wasted millions of dollars to prosecute what they knew was a hoax in order to throw the election to Biden?
Which party coerced social media to censor the Hunter laptop story—a story Democrats knew was true because the government had had his laptop in their possession for a year before the story broke—and did this in order to throw the election to Biden?
Which party—including Kamala Harris—lied for four years about Biden’s cognitive disability, then kicked him off the ticket to install Harris by undemocratic means?
When Kimmel asked Kinzinger if he were surprised at the “vitriol” directed at him from Republicans after his traitorous betrayal of the Republican Party, Kinzinger replied,
No, because … [Trump’s] built a cult. He’s really built a cult of personality, and when you go after the leader of a cult, it’s almost like going after somebody’s religion.
Perhaps Kinzinger spends too much time with quislings and Democrats and too little time with Republicans. Many Republicans see Trump’s flaws as clearly as they see Biden’s, Harris’, and Walz’s. Those Republicans don’t worship Trump. Those Republicans understand that Republican policies on the economy, environment, immigration, and foreign policy will make Americans safer and more prosperous.
After revealing on national television personal communication from his former co-pilot and friend and from family members—again exposing his traitorous, self-aggrandizing nature—Kinzinger blamed their criticism of his actions on Trump:
This is what’s happening to families all around this country. They’re being torn apart for a man that is more flawed than anybody that’s ever sat in the Oval Office.
More flawed than Biden who is a senile influence-peddler and serial tall-taleteller?
More flawed than John F. Kennedy who had at least seven affairs in his ten-year marriage to Jackie Kennedy?
More flawed than Bill Clinton who had an intern perform oral sex on him in the Oval Office and allegedly raped and groped other women?
What about Jimmy Carter, his gas shortage, and the Iran hostage crisis?
And surely Kinzinger can’t have forgotten Barack Obama, the divider-in-chief, who fomented hatred of the police, lit a racial conflagration in the streets of America, weaponized both the IRS and the DOJ against political opponents, alienated allies by strengthening Iran, and spent money like he hoped there was no tomorrow.
In contrast, Trump presided over a booming economy, appointed Supreme Court Justices who are committed to constitutional principles, and brokered historic Middle East peace treaties.
As I mentioned at the outset, Kinzinger’s traitorous comments extend beyond Trump to the entire GOP:
I’m not courageous … I’m surrounded by cowards.
On that we can agree; He’s not courageous. So, what is he? Is he a forthright man of integrity, wisdom, and maturity? Mmmm, not so much.
While Kimmel read aloud this Kinzinger tweet, Kinzinger giggled like a middle school mean girl:
I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor. It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can.
But that wasn’t juvenile enough for Frick and Frack—er, I mean Kinzinger and Kimmel. The guttersnipes plunged deeper into the muck with Kimmel asking, “What did it smell like, specifically?” Kinzinger replied,
So, if you take, like, armpits, ketchup, makeup, and a little butt. It’s probably like that all mixed up and yeah, a bit of a pungent odor. … you definitely wouldn’t want to bottle it up and wear Trump cologne, that’s for sure.
Mean girls everywhere must be inspired that a middle-aged former Congressman would talk just like they do.
Then, in a remarkable moment, Kinzinger revealed his superpower:
If you get into [Trump’s] head for one moment you just have to say this is a guy that literally cannot fathom, cannot fathom what it means to do something bigger than yourself.
Kinzinger has the ability to get inside the heads of other people. Not only that, but once he’s crept into their heads, he also has the ability to know what those people can “literally” fathom. My advice is stay far away from Superhero Kinzinger and his stealth mind-creeping.
I wonder what Kinzinger has seen inside Kamala’s head or elsewhere that suggests to him that she fathoms what it means to do something bigger than herself.
Was it sleeping with then-speaker of the California State Assembly, Willie Brown, when she was twenty-nine and Brown was old enough to be her father?
Was Harris fathoming something greater than herself when she accepted an expensive BMW and more from her politically connected lover in 1994:
Aside from handing her an expensive BMW, Brown appointed her to two patronage positions in state government that paid handsomely—more than $400,000 over five years. In 1994, she took a six-month leave of absence from her Alameda County job to join the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Brown then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission, where she served until 1998, attending two meetings a month for a $99,000 annual salary.
Or was it when she was climbing her way up the San Francisco political ladder and said this about Wille Brown that inspires Kinzinger:
“His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing.” … Brown is an “albatross hanging around my neck.”
Maybe Kinzinger sees Harris’ four years of lying to the American people about Biden’s mental unfitness as signs of her noble, selfless goals, or maybe it was Harris’ complicity in the coup led by Pelosi and Obama against her brilliant but at the same time mentally enfeebled boss.
Is never visiting the Gold Star families whose loved ones’ deaths in Afghanistan she and Biden caused a sign of Harris’ commitment to something bigger than herself?
Is her vigorous support for the legal “right” to slaughter babies in their mothers’ wombs up until the day they would magically become human babies with the concomitant right not to be murdered a sign of Harris’ commitment to something outside her naked political ambition?
Or is it her very recent adoption of Republican policy positions that suggests to Kinzinger that Harris is filled to the brim with altruism, as opposed to, say, opportunism?
Unfortunately for America, we probably haven’t seen the last of Adam Kinzinger. In an interview last November, Kinzinger called Ted Cruz a “complete con artist” and said, “I would love to run against Ted Cruz, because … to be able to run against his face in public would be amazing.”
I have long had a test to determine if I’m on the right or wrong political path: If my views align with most teens and most celebrities, I’m on the wrong political path. I’ll add Adam Kinzinger to that list.
