To: SirLinksalot
This is in no way meant to reflect negatively on Viet Dinh, who may be an excellent candidate. What does bother me is that we seem to be playing into the diversity game here. I don't see that this is called for and it ticks me off.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was white. Chief Justice Renquist was also white. And we're picking a minority because????
If someone wants to make the case for appointing a woman, I can understand that.
15 posted on
09/10/2005 12:37:39 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: DoughtyOne
I have great respect for you DO, but I have to ask - it's OK to play gender politics but not OK to play ethnic politics?
To: DoughtyOne
If someone wants to make the case for appointing a woman, I can understand that. Why? I'm sure you're not suggesting that the women who have been appointed so far have been great choices!
22 posted on
09/10/2005 12:55:15 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("The young folks call it country ... the Yankees call it dumb ..." ~Johnny Cash)
To: DoughtyOne
Race doesn't mean a lot to me. If anything about his background other than qualifications interests me it is that he is from South Vietnam and I'd love to shove that up the noses of the commie loving Dems.
That and his age. I'll admit I'm biased toward youth for the courts. :-D
27 posted on
09/10/2005 1:27:32 PM PDT by
Soul Seeker
(Barbour/Honore in '08)
To: DoughtyOne
What does bother me is that we seem to be playing into the diversity game here. Already picked a white man in Roberts. No one is playing the diversity game. This guy may be as good or better than roberts.
45 posted on
09/10/2005 11:18:22 PM PDT by
staytrue
To: DoughtyOne
Sandra Day O'Connor was picked because Reagan thought she would be a true rightie because she was the Chairperson of the AZ GOP and because she was the first women to SCOTUS the dems who controlled congress had to approve her.
I personally think those on the SCOTUS get more liberal as they get older so maybe a young conservative might be good ?
To: DoughtyOne
This is in no way meant to reflect negatively on Viet Dinh, who may be an excellent candidate. What does bother me is that we seem to be playing into the diversity game here. I don't see that this is called for and it ticks me off. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was white. Chief Justice Renquist was also white. And we're picking a minority because???? Because he clerked for Sandra Day O'Connor?
57 posted on
09/12/2005 9:57:35 AM PDT by
syriacus
(Ebbert, NOLA DHS, said at 1st - the water is rising slowly + the levee will be fixed in hours.)
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