Posted on 02/25/2016 7:10:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
My 1st thought when I heard this name yesterday
His strategy: Nominate a woman or minority, then scream racist when the GOP doesn’t confirm. Pure election year politics.
let the senate vote down every nominee until obama is out of office...
no need to say they won’t consider... just vote against... everyone.
Trojan Horse indeed.
I think he would be used by Obama just to get the Senate to back-down on their “absolutely no hearings” stance.
Then, just like Clinton’s first two AG picks, some fatal flaw would be leaked....failure to pay SS taxes on a nanny or somesuch.
Sandoval would be forced to withdraw. Enter Loretta Lynch. They’ve already tipped their hand on that as she is now busy going after Sanctuary Cities.
How did Nevada Republicans get this guy in office for a second term? I hope the GOP legislature will stop him in his tracks but he would only need a few of them with his democrat buddies voting his way.
It’s just a White House head fake. There’s no way Obama would nominate as one of his last acts in office, a Republican to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Even if the guy was a weak, RINO Republican.
Yesterday, Michael Medved said on his radio show that if Obama nominates Sandoval, the Senate should confirm him because he’s conservative enough for Medved. Keep in mind that a few weeks ago, Medved said that his ideal “conservative” role model is Dwight Eisenhower.
If the Republican Morons fall for that slight of hand they truly deserve to be swept into the dustbin of history as they will be by a liberal SCOTUS!
I understand why Sandoval did what he did in Nevada. You have a very small resident population and your main source of income is gambling and federal government. So you have to take extreme measures. And many elderly from California have moved to Nevada for cheaper living and a better retirement. He’s not betraying anyone, he’s trying to survive
OK, let him stay in Nevada and continue to run for office.
We are trying to replace a giant like Scalia here and I prefer someone who is like or who will strive to be like him as Justice.
Medved obviously doesn't realize that Ike did something about the illegals and also warned us about government money corrupting the Universities.
I don’t know much about this Brian Sandoval but if Obozo is even considering him he must be a RINO.
He’s only marginally less leftist than Trump’s partial-birth-abortion-loving sister.
I am automatically suspicious of ANYONE that Obama would nominate. He knows a LOT more about these people than we ever will.
REJECT every Obama nominee. Period.
The answer is no. Someone may as well call Sandoval aside and tell him to think about Nevada. Period. Full stop. End of story.
Didn’t they hear, no hearings until 2017.
Another example that the Democrats play chess while we play checkers. If the Senate is seen to reject a Hispanic Republican for the Supreme Court, Romney’s performance with that segment will seem like a high water mark. Plus they get us at the roulette table. Do we bet red or put our chips on a number. Unless we consider November a slam dunk, which it will not be, that is our position. From a pure strategy point of view, it is genius. Plus you notice, the other side never massacres the field in their own primaries, like we do. Our guy always limps into the general bloodied and damaged. You might call it tested, but that is self delusion, another thing we are good at.
I never understand why Republicans always take their strong cards off the table when facing a Democrat bluff.
Why would Medved accept a "conservative enough" bone from Obama when he can wait a few more months to get a fully Republican influenced pick?
I think this is in response to "The Biden Rule." As I posted elsewhere, I think they are trying to trick McConnell into casting aside the Biden Rule for a favorable pick.
Once McConnell opens that door a crack by suggesting he's open to Republican nominee, he loses the high ground on blocking Obama's pick. Obama then retracts, renegs, or just switches nominees and then angrily condemns Republicans for hypocrisy - he turns the hypocrisy argument away from himself, Schumer, and Biden's past comments, and onto McConnell's on-again-off-again "obstruction."
Then McConnell caves.
Some people think this is like when Obama nominated Chuck Hagel for defense, but they're wrong. This is like when Obama nominated Judd Gregg for Commerce. Obama had weakened Commerce by moving the census directly to the White House, which made it apparent that nominating Gregg was a ploy to weaken the Republican cloture vote and filibuster, which was already razor thin.
Nominating Sandoval is also a ploy to back Republicans into a corner when Obama's true nominee is switched in later.
-PJ
Great. Is he’s the real deal, he’ll understand and offer to wait a few months.
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