As I said before, I watched her hearing and I think she was well spoken and defended herself on many fronts but she had trouble explaining her public statements. Her public statements are that of an ultra and not a compassionate conservative. She can feel what she likes but she is going to be living in a city where there are a lot of black people that are going to be that she does not understand that old expression "There but for the grace of God, go I!"
As I said before, her judicial record is defensible and could be considered the record of a compassionate conservative but the public statements about the role and effect of government take her a little too far to the right... I agree with many of her points but I know she is going to be seen by too many as having forgotten where she came from...
I know attorneys and judges in LA and several other places that are just as well spoken and conservative but they do not have the problem she has of public statements that appear to not appreciate anything that government has done and criticizes all of it's failures....
This makes some question whether she did one of two things. Did she make such conservative statements so that she would be supported and elevated by the Republican Leadership or does she feel that she has to be like Clarence Thomas and go so far to the right (Unlike Colin Powell) so that she could be shown as a staunch conservative. The one thing that no one can question is her commitment to conservative ideals and worry that she will turn out like Justice Stephens....
Your contribution and view are interesting.
”Her public statements are that of an ultra and not a compassionate conservative.”
Whenever I hear generalities like this I always want to hear the specifics. What are her “ultra” statements? And who defines the mainstream? If you – as a self identified black – assume that the beliefs of the black community define the mainstream, you may wish to re-examine your assumptions.
You then question Justice Brown’s honesty; implying that she really does not believe what she is saying, she’s just taking her positions to get favors from Republicans. In a State that is overwhelmingly Liberal and from a race that is even more overwhelmingly tied to the Democrats, that kind of reasoning seems to be on a par with the overwhelming black belief in the myth of the church burnings during the Clinton administration.
I hope I’m wrong, but I detect a whiff of paranoia.