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How about something like this instead of continuing to beat up on each other. Just a thought!

Democrats Showing They are Party of Extremists
Posted by Bobby Eberle
November 1, 2005 at 8:43 am

Leave it to the Democrats to talk one way, yet act another. Following the withdrawal of Harriet Miers from consideration to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Democrats went on the offensive, saying that the nomination was brought down by “right wing extremists.” It seems they forget that there were plenty of Democratic senators who expressed doubt about the ability of Miers to handle the job. Now, the nominee is Judge Samuel Alito, and it is the Democrats who are resorting to the politics of extremism.

In comments following the announcement of Judge Alito as President Bush’s pick for the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the nomination requires “an especially long, hard look by the Senate because of what happened last week to Harriet Miers.”

Conservative activists forced Miers to withdraw from consideration for this same Supreme Court seat because she was not radical enough for them. Now the Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people.”

Make no mistake, the Miers nomination was not brought down because of some kind of conservative revolt. Rather the vocal opposition to Miers, based on the issues of qualifications and experience, simply started the ball rolling. What ultimately doomed the nomination were the reservations by both Republicans and Democrats following private meetings Miss Miers had with members of the Senate and the submission of her Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

For Harry Reid to now claim that Miers was not “radical enough” shows that Democrats are the ones gearing for a fight, when a fight is not even necessary. Samuel Alito as confirmed by the Senate to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by a unanimous vote. He has been through the process and was not deemed “too radical” before.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Alito will likely “divide America.”

This controversial nominee, who would make the court less diverse and far more conservative, will get very careful scrutiny from the Senate and from the American people.

It is the far left who is mobilizing for the “big fight,” and they will undoubtedly throw every scare tactic in their arsenal out for public consumption. Just look what Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL-Pro Choice America had to say about the Alito nomination:

Now the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down. It was humiliating, it was degrading and it’s a profound and distributing view of Judge Alito that he would uphold spousal notification as he did in the Pennsylvania case, and it raises concerns about his views of women.

Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, hit on all the buzz words likely to be seen in media reports on Miers and in commentary by the left:

Replacing a mainstream conservative like Justice O’Connor with a far-right activist like Samuel Alito would threaten Americans’ rights and legal protections for decades,” said Neas. “Justice O’Connor had a pivotal role at the center of the Court, often providing a crucial vote to protect privacy, civil rights, and so much more. All that would be at risk if she were replaced with Judge Alito, who has a record of ideological activism against privacy rights, civil rights, workers’ rights, and more.

Judge Alito will make a stellar Supreme Court justice for the simple fact that he is NOT an ideological activist. It is up to the true “main stream” of America to reject this type of “rhetoric of extremism” and force the Democrats to put the American people ahead of partisan politics.