Posted on 10/14/2004 6:59:19 PM PDT by The Doctor
Paraphrase: Here's a scenario that keeps me up at night. Suppose Kerry is elected; there are potentially two Supreme Court Justice appointments and Hillary Clinton is looking at eight more years before running for president. Kerry could appoint her as Supreme Court Justice and she could literally rewrite the Constitution.
Remember Robert Bork, one of the best qualified Supreme Court nominees in the 20th century? We can start the same PR campaign that trashed his chances. Remember Clarence Thomas, a moderately qualified nominee who happened to be black enough to fill the Marshall chair? He almost went down for Coke can jokes and video selection. Her NewYorkness can go down for much more substantial biases and errors in judgement.
Are you kidding? Hatch, Specter and the New England RINOs would be falling all over themselves to get her on the bench. They've been sucking up to her for four years.
She's a politician who can run a powerful media campaign and force them to give her a vote.
They'd no sooner filibuster her than they'd convict her husband.
Kerry better not be elected.
Imagine Hillary AND Bill both sittin there on the Supreme Court bench? That'll give you nightmares and depression.
The Senate didn't have the backbone to stand up to her husband. Do you really think they would would stand in her way? Never forget...1000 FBI files!!!! I would hope the American people would not stand for this, but then again, I didn't think Bill would be elected to a second term either.
Certainly not. But I think conservatives, in particular, are better informed now than then. More of us are connected to the internet for one thing. I hadn't even joined FR seven years ago.
Could Hillary possibly be confirmed as a USSC justice? Yes, in some weird nightmare. But she's never been a judge. She's a highly polarizing figure.
Had you ever heard of Clarence Thomas before he was nominated?
Hillary would be far more controversial than Thomas. I can't imagine a a nominee more doomed to rejection by the Senate than Hillary. Far better for them to nominate a stealth commie.
(I pray for the day when "the Klintoon" and his satanic minion "wife" shall be consigned to the "ash heap of history" once and for all.)
Stardate x+1 = First shots fired in America's 2nd Civil War.
That's my belief, too--if any senator depends on re-electon from a sizable conservative constituency, they wouldn't be able to survive a primary, let alone a general. That support would crumble.
This is why the Clintons are not sabatoging Kerry's campaign. There was a deal cut for her to be appointed the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court should he win.
I wouldn't bet on that. Senate collegiality and all that.
Never happen. She'd lose the up or down vote.
Forget Sominex. On that thought, I need Ipecac.
And I would have never thought that this idiotic country would have RE-elected Clinton either. NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING will ever surprise me anymore. And I think Dobson was right on the money in his concerns.
This comment about Hillary being appointed by Kerry to the Supreme Court was in the context of ASSUMING that Kerry is President for 8 years, which would preclude Hillary ever running. At least, that was my take on the comment.
That's something to put one's hopes on.
But it's the partisan Senators who oppposed the bipartisan Senators supporting her who would get the "Thomas treatment" from the media.
It's a done deal Dog. Kerry will be paying her off if he wins.
"The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
Reference your post # 12.
To: dawn53
As long as the Republicans hold onto the House and Senate she'd never be confirmed
When the radical leftist and feminist activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993, do you know how many of your Republicans voted against her?
Three.
AND she was not a Senator.
You are dreaming if you think she would not be confirmed.
12 posted on 10/14/2004 7:06:02 PM PDT by Jim Noble (FR Iraq policy debate begins 11/3/04. Pass the word.)
I think hallucinating would be a better term.
When have the Republicans ever stood up to the democrats since Newt was the Majority Leader?
I cannot recall any.
I don't doubt which side they're on, and I don't dispute that they sway votes their way.
But we win despite them, and there's no way Hillary gets a nomination, much less confirmed if Kerry wins.
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