Democrats Booed the Boy Scouts at National Convention in 2000

You know the best way to illustrate the reaction here? Trump goes to the Boy Scout National Jamboree yesterday. There’s 30,000 or 40,000 scouts there. They all have parents that send them there, and you know, for the longest time the left hated the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts were rooted in Christian morality, good deeds, manners. The left decided, “We can’t have this! That’s an obstacle in the direction we want to go.” So they started pressuring the Boy Scouts to begin to accept gays and the Girl Scouts to accept lesbians.

Now they’re demanding that transgenders be admitted to the Scouts. The left has never loved the Scouts, and they still don’t. But let Trump go speak to them and let 30,000 Boy Scouts go nuts seeing Trump and start shouting, “We love Trump! USA! USA!” and they’re now having another one of these out-of-control, irresponsible, unhinged reactions precisely because of what it means. So what we’re getting now is, “This was unseemly. This was over the top. Trump is not supposed to do what he did. The Boy Scouts are not supposed to be politicized.”

They’ve gone out and they gotten a bunch of former Eagle Scouts and a bunch of media people to tweet, “I’m quaking in my boots at what I’ve seen here! Trump is making a political speech to the Boy Scouts. I’m fearful for the future of the organization. (Gasp!) I don’t know how it can survive.” These are the same people who have been trying to tear it down from the first moment they began to consider it a threat. So Trump goes out and he starts talking about fake news, and the Boy Scouts start cheering! He talks about what’s going on in Washington, and they loved it, for the most part.

Not everybody loved everything, but I mean the overwhelming reaction you could see was upbeat and positive. And the left is having its typical cow over this — and the reason why? They’re not offended that Trump violated some tradition of sacrosanct status. They don’t have any massive respect for the Boy Scouts. They tried to undermine ’em and put ’em out of business not long ago. They are upset that Trump is his own guy and flaunts their way of doing things — openly and in their face — and gets cheered for it. That just will not do. I did a Google search. Three straight pages of links to stories!

Imagine the left telling somebody you’re not supposed to politicize something! That’s all they do, and the reason the left doesn’t like the Boy Scouts is precisely because of message and clean and reverent and respectful virtue and morality. That’s what they hated about the Boy Scouts to begin with! That flies in the face of their objectives of turning our culture upside down and getting rid of those characteristics as defining aspects of our culture.

So this idea that they have some great respect for the Boy Scouts and that President Trump went in there and somehow besmirched it? It’s a joke, it’s a laugh, because the people mounting this criticism are the very people that have been trying to undermine the Boy Scouts for what is it, at least 15 years now, and maybe more than that.

The Algore Democrat convention of 2000, the Boy Scouts of America were booed. And now these people come up and claim to be holier-than-thou supporters of the Boy Scouts. It’s all a big lie.

in Newsweek. “Trump Boy Scout Speech is Nazi Hitler Youth Rally.” And they even have pictures of Hitler speaking to his brown shirted youths in the story. Meanwhile, who was it that organized little school kids singing songs of devotion to “Barack Hussein Obama, yay, yay, yay, Barack Hussein Obama, we love him.” It was all over the place in 2009. Kids out there being forced to sing these Obama anthems. Hitler youth, my sizable rear end.

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