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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tbancroft who wrote (57169)	8/7/2009 12:29:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

I present this respectfully. When you say "they maintained their integrity and stood on principle." those are not the right words. They voted their philosophy. The whole reason Obama nominated Sotomayor was that she was so moderate, and if the right wing opposed her they would be insulting the Hispanic community. They did and they did. In the eyes of the Hispanics, all most of them see is the sort of racism they have suffered their whole lives. They will not even think about the right wing philosophy. It will be more "us and them". The Republicans just did 50 years of serious damage to their party and it was a trap Obama set and he will keep setting. Here is how you can know it was a trap. The formula for putting a supreme court justice on the court is to pick a young healthy person of its political ideology so they will be there a long time. Sotomayor has had diabtes since she was 8 and she is now 56, so her odds of even living a full life are slim. But her judicial rulings were so vanilla no one could really challenege them. The american bar associstion gave her a higher rating than Clarence Thomas. Big big mistake. I was in politics for 30 years and know the game. >> It was stupid for Republcians to vote against Sotomayor. They gained nothing and lost everything. Actually, the Republicans who voted against her maintained their integrity, and can defend looking at actual qualifications of a jurist as the basis for an appointment to the Supreme Court. Going forward, their success will be based on whether or not people will be willing to trust them. Since the One is proving to be so obviously duplicitous, and that stain will spread to the Democratic controlled Congress which has mostly supported him, I think that anytime someone actually stands on principle to guide their votes, they will do better in the long run.<<