Posted on 05/28/2009 11:15:12 AM PDT by steve-b
Almost everybody cheers for the underdog -- maybe not those born to upper-class standing with great advantages, but those of us who weren't always want the little guy to be victorious.
We want hard work and extra effort to be rewarded. Standing at the front of the East Room of the White House Tuesday morning were two Americans who clearly had started life as underdogs.
One is now our president, son of a Kenyan. The other is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who is about to sit on the highest court in the land. Both were born without privilege. Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love. Both were raised by strong, devoted mothers who worked hard to support them....
Let me state that I am sure Sotomayor and I don't agree on very much. And I am sure some of her liberal rulings will drive me nuts. But President Obama won, is a liberal and gets to put liberals on the court. That's the way it works. Ideology aside, is she qualified?
There can be no debate over her qualifications. Her lifetime achievements in the academic world, in the legal world and the judicial world are unchallengeable. If that was the only measure, she would be confirmed unanimously....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
The editor forgot to note that Rollins is a complete tool.
Do liberals ever write pieces like this?
Or only suicidal so-called conservatives?
STFU, Ed!
There can be little doubt that Sotomayor is one of the least-qualified jurists to be nominated to the Supreme Court since FDR was stacking the bench with his stooges.
Gee, a CNN GOP “stategerist” backing down from this battle...
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BS.....another RINO Trainer speaks.....
Sotomayor thinks race matters and obviously doesn’t support a colorblind Constitution . That’s enough reason to oppose her.
Another bs
Those who have not been able to lay a glove on President Obama, with his 60 percent-plus approval ratings, now think they can define him by smearing Sotomayor.
For a political party that lost an election just six months ago by 9½ million votes, the second largest vote margin of defeat ever for a Republican presidential candidate, you would think we would shut our mouths and figure out how to get more votes in the future."
What an ass. "Shut up conservatives! Just shut up!" Forget Obama won because the Republican party nominated a moderate RINO and conservatives stayed home. Forget that studies of the last election showed no real increase of democrat turnout but instead a decrease of Republican turnout.
When the RNC calls for money, tell them to just SHUT UP!
If the GOP does not stand up and oppose, then they have already become an extinct species in the country
This appears to be true in Sotomayor's case, but from what I have read, this would be false in Ø's case.
If the Republican party does not fight this nomination with every tooth and nail, then it is done as a party.
Finished.
It will have stood for nothing.
Didn't Obama and Sotomayor BOTH go to private schools?
I don’t particularly care about her biography, except to know if she is a person of good character. What I care about beyond that is if she will rule based on her political opinions or does she have a history of rulings that respect the text of the law.
If she is a judge who legislates from the bench, then we need to say so, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say so and oppose her on that basis. The Dems aren’t shy about going after judicial nominees they don’t like and we should not be shy about it either.
That should be the only subject on the table. Is she of good character, which presumably she is, and does she rule based on the text of the law or does she reinterpret the law as she sees fit.
Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love.
No cash? That’s because Obama’s Mama practiced free love, with just about any man who paid her any attention for five minutes. And Obama’s Mama didn’t really raise the O, it was his grandparents.
Go to war, throw cement bags from over passes, dress in code-colored shirts (white??) and storm congressional meetings...
Why the he11 is the left acting like they can orchestrate even the people that oppose them???
Fight, fight, fight, fight. Speak loudly and with passion and don’t forget to laugh at the juveniles that pull this nonsense.
Don’t go to war??!!
Don’t make waves???!!
Ohhhhh, don’t spoil the liberal love-in party, man. Geezz.
No. Judges who rule based on non-legal concerns are not qualified to be judges.
“Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love.”
BS.....another RINO Trainer speaks.....”
Yeah right along with a fat Government Check!
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