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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Club, think about what you're saying. Are you filling in for zRush while he's on vacation in the "sanitarium"? You can't seriously be suggesting that the Democrats are opposing minoity candidates based on race. Instead, consider those candidates, their views and their qualifications. With the possible exception of Estrada, every single controversial minority candidate nominated by Bush has been hard, hard right.
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I'm glad my posts continually draw your response. I am suggesting that they are opposing them on race, though not for the reasons you suggest. The simple fact is that the DEMS will oppose whomever Bush puts up as his first SCt nominee to make a point/use it for political purposes. And they are opposing the minorities for the appeals court in preparation for the big fight ahead. If they approve her or another conservative minority it makes it awfully hard to oppose her for the SCt (and Bush will surely make try to make that appointment). In addition, they don't want to be put in a position of having to oppose a minority on national TV.
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
(While the particular lady you're discussing now is in my view a baying-at the-moon lunatic -- and has never received any kind of solid support from her peers in the legal community for judicial nomination at any level.)
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You are just wrong on this. Not sure where you live, but I'm pretty certain it's not CA. Check her supporters on both sides of the aisle (here in CA).
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man The Democrats aren't prejudiced against women, blacks, or Hispanics -- they're prejudiced against the hard right -- aka "strict constructionists" et al. Nothing BULLSHIT about that.
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They are prejudiced against minorities who don't toe the line. Any conservative minority is automaticallly branded an uncle Tom. See Clarence Thomas. See also Ward Connerly, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. I could go on. The point being is that the left does not combat these folks based on ideas (as losing proposition for the left), but rather on racial issues.
The left also refuses to approve school choice/vouchers which would most benefit poor people (a large percentage of which are minorities), even though those minorities overwhelmingly are in favor of vouchers. Why? Because the teachers' union opposes them. So you tell me who's prejudiced
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man Now, as a side note, props to Bush for searching out and finding minorities whose views he can live with, and putting them forward in significant numbers. This could be a big step for the Republicans, who never bothered to do that before except for Justice Thomas (who got the nomination ONLY because it was for Marshall's old seat).
S_A_M
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I think you also forgot Ronald Reagan, who appointed the first woman to the SCt. and the first woman to the United Nations.
