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MUST-HAVE reference to thwart Democrat confirmation obstructionism and hypocrisy of Roberts for SCOTUS! Quotes are from the original post and post 19, with my comments in (parentheses).

"...Schumer wasted no time letting everyone know that he was going to be the one to carry the water for the moonbats this go-round. What was particularly stunning to me was the audacity Schumer displayed in the tactic he is apparently going to use during the upcoming character assass... I mean, confirmation hearings. It appears that Schumer will attempt to beat Roberts around the head for refusing to answer questions....

(We need to expose DNC hypocrisy in their confirming) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose confirmation hearings were the gold-standard for question refusal in confirmation hearings....

...While Senator Biden had said that a nominee should decline to answer questions about how she would decide a specific case, which suggests that only prospective cases are off-limits, Justice Ginsburg declined to answer questions about her views on both prospective and many historical Supreme Court cases. She also declined to answer questions (or gave non-responsive answers to questions) involving a number of controversial issues, hypothetical facts, or areas in which she is not an expert...."

(Ginsberg was the Evil Queen of stealth anti-American SCOTUS judges, check out her devilish weasel sidestepping of every important question!)

(According to posts downthread, Schumer was not yet in the Senate during the hearings and vote for Ginsberg but the major point is still valid.)

"What Roberts needs to do is study every answer that Ruth Ginsburg gave as she avoided giving answers on controversial subjects, and do exactly the same thing when it comes his turn. He should use her words as exactly as possible without actually parroting her, and then the Pubs, when the Dems attack him for not answering, should pull out the Ginsburg responses and say, hey, these answers were fine when you voted Ginsburg through, and Roberts is answering no differently than Ginsburg did, so you have no room to argue in this instance." -- post 19 by FlagLady47

"What was particularly stunning to me was the audacity Schumer displayed in the tactic he is apparently going to use during the upcoming character assass... I mean, confirmation hearings."

If Schumer falls for GWB's trap, so much the better.

CONSIDER: Roberts clerked for Rehnquist ON THE SUPREME COURT. Roberts has *personally* worked with several of the current Supreme Court Justices. They know him *personally*.

IF, big if, IF the Dems assassinate Roberts' character; the strange inside-baseball politics of the 9 Supreme Court Justices themselves will come into play. In short, the entire SCOTUS will turn against any Dems engaging in false character attacks.

It's not as though those Justices can just be lied to about Roberts, you see. They *know* him personally. Character assasinations from others *DON'T WORK* against people you know personally. You know better.

When people lie to you about someone whom you *know*, you turn against those liars, not against the person you know. That's human nature.

So let Schumer and his ilk go to war against Roberts. It's their grave that they would be digging if they did that.

At this point, the Dems' have three options:
#1, go to war against Roberts (see above)
#2, Go along to get along (i.e. play to the Moderates for the next election cycle)
#3, reverse psychology (e.g. pretend to love the guy in order to cause the far Right to get jumpy)