Commentary: Don't Go To War Over Sotomayor

CNN ^ | 5/28/09 | Ed Rollins

[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....

[Right Wing Assault]

but those of us who weren't always want the little guy to be victorious.

BS! This assumes that the underdog is always better than others. That's minority groupthink. All black pimps are preferred to all white cops, attorneys, businessmen. Unfortunately, a lot of white folks got this disease in the last election.

[postoak]

Doesn’t matter whether she is on the Left or the Right. But, she’s a judicial activist, and that ALONE makes here unqualified for the job.

[Nathan Zachary]

"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."

Amazing how no cash Obama had all his Muzzie madrasa private school in Malaysia and collage in America paid for, isn't it?

He was spoiled rotten by his wealthy grandparents, the only reason he had no cash is because he spent it all on blow and stupid "I'm a pimp wanna be" hats and stupid pimp clothing.

[BienHoa69-70 RVN]

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[MBB1984]

Rollins needs to be sent back to the RINO nursing home.

[McGruff]

Ed Rollins is one creepy dude. I'd never trust what he says.

[Tzimisce]

Yeah - don’t fight Sotomayer.

In fact, why don’t you just roll over and die?

[McGruff]

Ed Rollins Gives Obama An "A" For Keeping Country Safe.

[McGruff]

But Ed Rollins, a CNN contributor and GOP strategist, says Cheney’s attacks are not helping the Republican image.

“While he certainly has a right to defend what they did over the last eight years, since he was the architect of much of it ... at the end of the day, we need to be looking forward, not backwards,” Rollins said Monday. “[Powell] is a man of great stature and a man obviously either party would like to have supporting them.”

[reagan_fanatic]

The republican party is already dead. It committed suicide on November 4th, 2008.

[FreepShop1]

Ed Rollins has been drinking Democrat Kool Aid for 10 years now, apparently trying to succeed David Gergen as the RATs’ favorite GOP tool. Do any conservatives still listen to him?

[FreepShop1]

Both were born without privilege. Both were raised in households with little cash, but much love.

Not true. Obama's (white) grandparents were well off, and even sent him to private schools.

[mo]

OF COURSE no WASHINGTONIAN wants any argument over this nominee. She is the key to lowering the bar for subsequent nominees. She is the key to setting aside ALL Constitutional barriers to Washington’s power grab. Wake up America..this NOT about Repub/Dem politics any longer. Has’nt been since the Senate declined to impeach WJC. It is about Washington v. America.

[Finny]

You must remember these comments are posted by CNN. They will not post negative comments that go against their radical leftist views; this is evidenced by the following caution that CNN issues ...

All the more reason to have contempt for Rollins for being willing to be the representative "Republican/conservative" under such a flawed setup. One of the things I like best about Free Republic is that Jim Robinson allows voices to be heard from all sides, whether they reflect FR views or not. Indeed, I believe that it is what makes Free Republic as successful as it is.

[tumblindice]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/26/ed-rollins-gives-obama-an_n_191492.html

This is how sycophantic RINOs seek work, like fading
Hollywood celebrities attacking Bush/conservatives.

[DennisR]

Great idea. In fact, let us never go to war over anything again. That way no one will be unhappy with conservatives. /sarc.

[vpintheak]

BS! And BS some more! She is an incopentent boob, that shuoldn’t be a judge in the first place. If there ever was a judge nominated solely because of here race and sex, she is it.