Posted on 01/26/2006 5:38:47 AM PST by conservativecorner
The reason Democrats and liberals did not get more popular traction in their opposition to the appointment of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court is that their worldview of what constitutes a good nominee is sharply at variance with that of the American public at large.
To the likes of Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) et al., the Supreme Court is a kind of super-Congress — nine special Senate seats — and the criterion for confirmation is agreement with the nominee on the key issues likely to come before the court. But to the American voters, the Supreme Court is above politics and ideology and confirmation should be awarded based on personal attributes such as integrity, intelligence, judgment, compassion, wisdom, maturity, fairness and temperament.
Realizing this difference in perspective between the Democratic base and the public at large, President Bush has done very well with both the John Roberts and the Alito appointments. When his people forgot about the dichotomy — and nominated Harriet Miers who was seen as a poorly qualified if conservative candidate — they got their heads handed to them.
Of course, ideology is as important (if not more so) to conservatives as it is to liberals. But with the White House comes the ability to get men or women who share your ideology approved as long as they are objectively well-qualified. Bill Clinton learned that lesson when the Senate easily approved his nominations of moderate liberal Stephen Breyer and ultraliberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Republicans then, as with Democrats now, could not rally public opposition to a judge simply based on his or her ideology.
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The Democrats want an atheist who would support their socialist agenda, including abortion on demand, same-sex marriage and invasion of private property. They are anti-Christian and anti-Catholic in particular, so Alito is their enemy.
Why Dems can't sink Alito?
Cuz they lost the elections? Just a guess, ya know.
Dickie's still grinding the old "partisan Republican bastards" ax.
The public is tired of shrill dim partisanship ... not stuff the MSM tried to pin on the GOP last century.
I know a couple of liberal women who tell me that abortion and homosexual rights are necessary. They see it as a good thing. Basically you can't talk to liberals.
Yes. It's part of the Communist Manifesto.
They can't sink him because they don't have the votes.
The republicans did not even try.
You must understand that the cultural Left is organized around the ideal of having no rules about sex of any kind. That's really all there is to it. No legal rules, no moral rules. That's all their agenda amounts to; it is the meaning of abortion, for example; if you can kill the baby you can have sex without consequences.
"Modernism is simply rationalized promiscuity."
And, yes, they really do believe in that version of paradise, just like other people believe in THEIR religions.
The real difference is that liberals have a view of the world that nothing a person feels is wrong. Liberals believe that all people are inherently good and if you just let people do what they want everyone will live in peace and love. Conservatives have a view that there is a right and a wrong and feelings don't change that. Conservatives believe that it is human nature to sin, and sin leads to the destruction of society. Something is not right just because you feel like doing it.
Morris writes a lot that appears to be pro Bush and even conservative sometimnes, but if you watch his choice of adjectives you can see that he really wishes the Crats could get their act together sufficiently to take over with whatever that might entail. If the Democrats are in power and pushing leftist everything including surrendering the ME to OBL he will be satisfied and happy.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
If you don't have the votes you can't stop anything! GET OUT AND VOTE-
Refresh my memory, Dick, who led that huge Republican attempt to "rally public opposition" to Breyer and Ginsburg. What's that??? Oh, there wasn't one? I didn't think so.
I have a moderate Republican friend who is in favor of abortion. Her idea is that the children who are aborted would probably be mistreated if they were allowed to be born, because they are unwanted. The idea that I adopted 3 of those unwanted babies prior to 1972 doesn't faze her.
bimp
The Liberals always had and continue to have the wholesale affirmation and blind loyalty of the MSM in the US. While the MSM has been taking the pounding that it has from the internet and other conservative forums, the Liberals have failed to realize that the support and reinforcement they enjoyed from the MSM is no longer in place. In fact, to the extent that MSM influence continues, it only does so as a detriment to Liberal leaders and their policies. The MSM is by now recognized uniformly as the official mouthpiece for Liberals in the US (warts and all). The MSM is really something the Liberals ought to work to disassociate themselves from. Having their failings, lack of vision and unalloyed anti-Americanism perpetually broadcast nationwide and world wide is an fatal impediment to Liberals on every level. The last Presidential election is the perfect illustration of this.
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