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Commentary: Don't Go To War Over Sotomayor
CNN ^ | 5/28/09 | Ed Rollins

Posted on 05/28/2009 11:15:12 AM PDT by steve-b

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Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is Senior Presidential Fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He was White House political director for President Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
1 posted on 05/28/2009 11:15:12 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b

The editor forgot to note that Rollins is a complete tool.


2 posted on 05/28/2009 11:16:57 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: steve-b

Do liberals ever write pieces like this?

Or only suicidal so-called conservatives?


3 posted on 05/28/2009 11:17:15 AM PDT by rom (Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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To: steve-b

STFU, Ed!


4 posted on 05/28/2009 11:19:01 AM PDT by Dahoser (The missus and I joined the NRA. Who says Obama can't inspire conservatives?)
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To: steve-b

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.


5 posted on 05/28/2009 11:19:10 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: steve-b

Gee, a CNN GOP “stategerist” backing down from this battle...


6 posted on 05/28/2009 11:19:28 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: ED ROLLINS

You’re a self loathing, poor excuse for a white man.

7 posted on 05/28/2009 11:20:42 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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"Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love."

BS.....another RINO Trainer speaks.....

8 posted on 05/28/2009 11:20:55 AM PDT by goodnesswins (WE have a REPUBLIC.....IF we can KEEP IT!!!)
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Sotomayor thinks race matters and obviously doesn’t support a colorblind Constitution . That’s enough reason to oppose her.


9 posted on 05/28/2009 11:22:34 AM PDT by NinoFan
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To: steve-b

Another bs


10 posted on 05/28/2009 11:23:33 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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"The challenge has been laid down by conservative commentators that "if not now, when!" The terms " radical liberal" and "reverse racist" are being bantered about, with more to come.

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!

11 posted on 05/28/2009 11:23:44 AM PDT by icwhatudo
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If the GOP does not stand up and oppose, then they have already become an extinct species in the country


12 posted on 05/28/2009 11:24:15 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now, NOW)
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"Both were raised by strong, devoted mothers who worked hard to support them.... "

This appears to be true in Sotomayor's case, but from what I have read, this would be false in Ø's case.

13 posted on 05/28/2009 11:24:33 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: steve-b

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.


14 posted on 05/28/2009 11:24:53 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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Standing at the front of the East Room of the White House Tuesday morning were two Americans who clearly had started life as underdogs

Didn't Obama and Sotomayor BOTH go to private schools?

15 posted on 05/28/2009 11:26:13 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Putin warned Obama not to pursue Marxism. Obama has ignored him.)
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To: steve-b

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.


16 posted on 05/28/2009 11:26:21 AM PDT by marron
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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.


17 posted on 05/28/2009 11:27:23 AM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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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.


18 posted on 05/28/2009 11:27:30 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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Ideology aside, is she qualified?

No. Judges who rule based on non-legal concerns are not qualified to be judges.

19 posted on 05/28/2009 11:28:41 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: goodnesswins

“Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love.”
BS.....another RINO Trainer speaks.....”

Yeah right along with a fat Government Check!


20 posted on 05/28/2009 11:29:09 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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