An early victim of the left’s Politics of Pesonal Destruction.
>>An early victim of the left’s Politics of Pesonal Destruction.<<
True dat. Libs are like weeds. They just coming back until they take over the garden.
RIP
He was the poster child for the left’s encroaching totalitarianism and unwillingness to hear other opinions. Wish people had noticed back then that something wasn’t right. Could have nipped it in the bud. They tried the same crap with Clarence Thomas which was to tear him down.
I was a Nixon hater and a Watergate junkie. I would watch every minute I could of the hearings. After the Saturday Night Massacre, I was fit to be tied and wanted Bork’s head.
However, after he was nominated to the SCOTUS, I watched those hearings too. And although I “hated” him, it was obvious he was imminently qualified and would make decisions based on the Constitution and not ideology.
Since elections have consequences, Reagan had the rock solid right to nominate his candidate and have him approved. The Senate is simply a last bulwark against an obvious inept political appointee.
After hearing his testimony, I felt “why even bother with a roll call vote?” This guy is so qualified a simple voice vote of 100% is warranted.
That was when I discovered that Democrats didn’t give a rat’s patootie about the Constitution.
The next SCOTUS hearings (Clarence Thomas) sealed the deal when it was revealed that the Democrats hadn’t jettisoned their racist past. They had just politicized it.
I haven’t (and will never) vote for a Democrat again.
Yes. A good man in a corrupt culture.