Stop Whining – Right Choices and the Courts (GOP forms circular firing squad – shoots feet)

RealClearPolitics ^ | October 7, 2005 | Ronald A. Cass

[quidnunc]

Honorable Ronald A. Cass, President of Cass & Associates, PC, a legal consultancy in Great Falls, VA, is Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law and Co-Chairman of the Committee for Justice. He was Vice-Chairman of the US International Trade Commission, and author of “The Rule of Law in America” (Johns Hopkins Press).

[k2blader]

Here's an idea: stop whining about whining.

[right right]

Why defile the dog with Ann Richards?

[Betaille]

It was Bush who shot us in the foot by nominating an unqualified nominee. Demanding a well-qualified conservative is not "whining".

[maryz]

Having someone who knows more about business and understands better the practical impact of legal decisions on businesses is valuable to have represented on the Court and currently is in short supply.

Good point.

[Last Dakotan]

That bad smell in the air that you can't put your finger on but reflexively don't like is the smell of affirmative action.

[griswold3]

The constitution gives us the definition of qualifications..

[rightinthemiddle]

Up...the MSM and the Dims are loving this mess. I guess we want to be the minority.

I'm as conservative as anyone on this board. I'm not happy with everything W has done, especially on illegal immigrations and spending. But we have three more years affect change. It takes time for people in the middle who have actually started to think of themselves as Republicans to adopt more conservative positions. Like most of us, I didn't do it all at once.

Just like the Dims, we can run these people off. The MSM and the Libs know it (the Libs are really good at it themselves). The Media is using our words to defeat us.

So, for those of you who keep whining about RINOs, whining about Bush, saying you aren't going to vote for the Republicans, I look at it this way:

You've already done more damage than your vote will make up for anyway. You've disengaging from the process.

So who cares what you think?

[samtheman]

Great article. Best anti-whine article yet. I'd love to force-feed it to Krauthammer, just to name one of the particularly shrill whine-babies I've read today.

We need someone practical. We need someone pro-business. We need someone who's head is not in the intellectual clouds of judicial elitism.

Thank you, Mr. President.

[BadAndy]

By "stop whining" he means just bend over and grab your ankles. Don't worry, he sent his assistant to the limo for some vaseline.

[rightinthemiddle]

Which is better: An "unqualified conservative or a well-qualified liberal?

Because President Clinton is going to pick a bunch of those if we don't get our act together.

[trisham]

Why defile the dog with Ann Richards?

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LOL! Good question.

[kevao]

Which is better: An "unqualified conservative or a well-qualified liberal?

I'd go with "qualified conservative," but for some reason you didn't offer that as an option.

[adgirl]

"We need someone practical. We need someone pro-business. We need someone who's head is not in the intellectual clouds of judicial elitism."

I agree. I also like the fact that she's not Ivy league. Here is someone who's actually been affected by some of these goofy decisions these judges make. She's practiced law. Someone called her "Clarence Thomas in a skirt." I can't tell you how much hope that gave me that she would be all right.

[rightinthemiddle]

Which is better: An "unqualified conservative or a well-qualified liberal?

I'd go with "qualified conservative," but for some reason you didn't offer that as an option.

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Oh, that's right...it's my job to provide you with options. I should have consulted you first. However, I didn't see you provide me with a list of qualifications for a SCJ? You just say Miers is "unqualified."

Why?

[samtheman]

I also like the fact that she's not Ivy league. Here is someone who's actually been affected by some of these goofy decisions these judges make.

Yup. We don't need no ivy leaguers. We don't need no thought control.

[rightinthemiddle]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498504/posts

[ElPatriota]

Dear friends, you have a right to say what you want (within the rules of the forum), and I support your passion. But I am also getting tired of the word "whining." What may sound to whining to some, it may be the most important statement your or anyone can make... a very important thing it must be said, in my opinion. Right? I'll say LET'S WHINE ALL WE WANT... in other words let's talk - Withou insulting each other.

I am not saint, but what you say, it's important, whether I agree with it or not.

I love you all!... bartender... fill it up please :))

[kevao]

Oh, that's right...it's my job to provide you with options.

I didn't say it was your job. YOU are the one who took it upon YOURSELF to ask the entire FR community its opinion of the following:

Which is better: An "unqualified conservative or a well-qualified liberal?

Well, I offered you my opinion, saying that I would prefer a qualified conservative, and pointing that, for whatever reason, you did not offer that as an option to choose from. Next time, if you don't want my opinion, don't ask.

Jeez, everyone is sooooo sensitive around here lately!!!

[Clintonfatigued]

That is the best point yet made in the confirmation debate.