Posted on 10/15/2005 9:02:18 AM PDT by gobucks
After thinking it over for a bit, the Miers outrage among 'conservatives' seems to have one major feature: she is a Southern, White, Protestant.
And that type of individual has not been on the SCOTUS for a long long time. I don't think this is an 'accident' of history.
Can anyone answer for me this question: who was the last SCOTUS Justice that was a white, protestant, Southerner?
Not sure where you're going with this. Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants?
I can't and I don't care. So now you want a quota for Southern white protestants.
So when was the last Asian, hispanic, or american indian on SCOTUS. Well the answer to that is never.
Before you bite the apple of quotas, you should first consider where the apple came from.
"Not sure where you're going with this. Are you suggesting that conservatives don't like southern white protestants?"
Bottom line, the wing of 'conservatives' expressing outrage over her are all from the Northeast for the most part. Southern outrage to Miers? Strangely missing...
Inside the beltway ivy league pointed headed intellectual conservatives don't. Many of the pundits most vocal in their criticism of Harriet Miers have also been quick to dismiss or ridicule religious conservatives, wherever they are from.
They, too, like to be invited to Washington parties and, as they accuse Supreme Court justices of being seduced by that type of blandishment, they appear to have been swayed themselves. Dismissing Christianns as less intelligent, less well educated, they get their entre to the "right society," while still maintaining that they are doctrinaire conservatives.
Bigotry may be part of their brand of conservatism, but it has never been part of mine. I, for one, was thrilled when Patrick Von Buchannan chose to leave the Republican party for loony Ross Perot's clique. They deserve each other.
"Can anyone answer for me this question: who was the last SCOTUS Justice that was a white, protestant, Southerner?"
still waiting....
You better duck for the incoming.
GO COLTS!!!
I saw on another thread, its the father of Ramsey Clark.
"Hopefully this is a trivia question but it may not play well in this overcharged environment."
It is a trivia question; but the obviousness of what the fight is becoming about is more and more and more clear: the 'conservatives' and the liberals share one thing in common: they despise conservative social protestants, ESPECIALLY the southern variety. Bottom line, their attitude seems to be the SCOTUS will be off-limits to White Southern Protestants .... so, all I wanted to know was this: who was the last one?
Oh and Fortas.
I'm pretty sure Tom Clark wasn't a traditional southern protestant. I have looked everywhere for his religious affilitian. Bottom line, he was a total liberal.
Well you didnt say anything about political leanings, but he was a white southern protestant.
Off the top of my head I can think of Virginian Lewis Powell and Alabaman Hugo Black, both socially liberal activists. I'm not sure if either was or both were Protestant, but I believe both were.
Hugo Black was a good one, don't know if he was the last one though.
That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the objections to Miers.
The fact that she is WHOLLY UNQUALIFIED, knows NOTHING about Constitutional Law, has ZERO track record to know her true "judicial philosophy" (assuming she even has one, and isn't the political opportunist that she appears to be) and is a CRONY of W has much, MUCH more to do with the opposition.
"That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the objections to Miers. "
Funny, you couldn't, or wouldn't, answer the question. Noted.
Sort of like Jimmy Carter? And, that's far from the only similarities between Miers and Carter.
Strawman fallacy
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