Posted on 10/30/2011 4:35:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
It is, to be sure, completely understandable that the Democrats wanted to keep Bork off the court. Lewis Powell, the great moderate, was stepping down, which would be leaving the court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals. There was tremendous fear that if Bork were confirmed, he would swing the court to the conservatives and important liberal victories would be overturned — starting with Roe v. Wade.
But liberals couldn’t just come out and say that. “If this were carried out as an internal Senate debate,” Ann Lewis, the Democratic activist, would later acknowledge, “we would have deep and thoughtful discussions about the Constitution, and then we would lose.” So, instead, the Democrats sought to portray Bork as “a right-wing loony,” to use a phrase in a memo written by the Advocacy Institute, a liberal lobby group.
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Hey! The NY Times wins the stopped clock award today.
Republicans don’t fight, they instead compromise quietly, while loudly proclaiming that the fight isn’t fair, and that they need bigger majorities. The Republican heart has stopped, in its place beats nothing but an artificial heart that always always always says compromise, and “can’t we do this without all the arguing”?
It's interesting that, in every attack on conservative candidates by liberals, when you peel away all the superfluous arguments, it always comes down to abortion.
the next year will be a hot one
I always thought it interesting that the Democrats never attacked him for his vote against the Civil Rights Act. All they cared about was whether he had ever cheated on his wife.
His drinking was a fairly big issue as well. But you’re right on the Civil Rights Act vote.
The confirmation hearings for Bork had Chappaquidick Ted, Plagiarist Joe and graft & pork Howard all sitting in judgement.
That was the first time I realized that the struggle involved good versus evil rather than just a clash of opinions.
Bork clearly stood for integrity, reverence for the constitution and truth. Seeing those three slimes arrayed against such a man of obvious character using sophistry and trying to trap Bork showed me for the first time that the bad guys were for real.
Bork was a towering intellect compared to them, he was beyond qualified to represent the constitution. They had to lie to defeat him.
“Mostly, though, the point remains this: The next time a liberal asks why Republicans are so intransigent, you might suggest that the answer lies in the mirror.”
Great close.
John Tower died in a plane crash.
To overthrow a lower court procedure, SCOTUS decisions should be unanimous.
While it might have some unpleasant side effecs, that would de-activate the activist court and de-politicize it.
And of course, they ‘forgot’ that Bull Connor was a staunch Democret. My family knew him.
Exactly.
Glad we got Dick Cheney instead.
An excellent point.
Alternate history and its consequences is a hobby of mine.
imagine...wasn't Nixon accused also of obtaining TWO FBI files?...I mean CLintoon had 700!!!!
and they looked high and low for those White Water files and no one could ever find them and then walaaa....they turn up on the White House dinner table and nobody knows how....
its breaktaking the hypocrisy...its obscene...
You must always remember, they are, above all, *true believers* in "The Gospel of Marx", that 'the end always justifies the means'. Once you have totally come to grips with that salient, and sobering fact, you will then know that absolutely *nothing* is 'beyond the pale' for such as they...
the infowarrior
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