Posted on 10/15/2020 8:04:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
The second day of the confirmation meetings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to become a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court had a moment to remember. Senator Cornyn (R-Texas) observed that he and his Senate colleagues had voluminous binders, meticulously prepared by staffers, to use while questioning Judge Barrett. Cornyn asked her what she had on the note pad in front of her. With a smile, she held up an empty pad with only the letterhead of the U.S. Senate on it.
It was obvious to anyone watching that Judge Barrett was more than a match for all of the senators on the Judiciary Committee and their staff. Using just her own wits, she has been able to respond with class and dignity to every question. Which made one of the lines of attack used by Democrats on the committee all the more puzzling.
Even on day three of the hearings, they continued to question her as if she were a clone of her mentor Justice Scalia. Although she several times pointed out that she is an independent person and will arrive at her own conclusions, Democrats continued to make it seem like she was incapable of her own thoughts.
Democrats seem to believe that anyone who admires and respects their mentor will never diverge from them. In that case what are we to make of President Bill Clinton, who so admired his mentor Senator William Fulbright (D-AR), who was a Dixiecrat and favored segregation, that he gave the eulogy at Fulbright’s funeral? Fulbright was one of only nineteen U.S. Senators who signed the Southern Manifesto, a document of Constitutional principles meant to oppose the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that mandated desegregation of public schools. By Democrats logic this would make Bill Clinton in favor of segregation.
An intelligent, well-educated woman who disagrees with Democrat ideology, in their world, must have an explanation. Which may be why we see an attempt by Democrats to cast Judge Barrett as the unwitting padawan of the evil conservative Justice Scalia, who somehow turned her to the Dark Side. But this is not a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
This is reality here and now. Once again, Democrats’ patronizing attitude towards women and minorities that do not agree with them is exposed. It appears that in Democrats’ minds, women and minorities are incapable of independent thought, should that thought disagree with left-wing orthodoxy. Remember Joe Biden’s “You ain’t Black” remark? The condescension is striking, especially when directed towards a legal scholar whose empty note pad shows she is impressively qualified.
The submission lives loudly within Democrats—submission to an ideology that precludes independent thought. An ideology that is at the root of Cancel Culture and uses fear to enforce it. Judge Barrett is respectful but not afraid of these Senators. She is intelligent but not condescending to those who disagree with her. Most of all, she is a representation of all that is great about our nation, both at its founding and today. That should be an inspiration to us all.
You can’t win wars with a weak army. And trust me, we are in a war for our national survival. I don’t know about you but I prefer to have fighters on my side.
That’s not giving up. Its called winning.
Push back and or dismissal
I dismiss the political and cultural opinions by my relatives and long time friends whom I wish did not choose liberalism as their life philosophy. They tend to back off. When they’re all together talking freely about insane life choices and terrible movies and shows I just tune it out.
Works for me. If they ask inquisitively, as opposed to Diane Feinstein-like, I simply say, I have no problem with Trump being president, or so. Plant a seed or throw it in the wind, and move on
And who are these winners in your third party you are winning wth?
I’ve observed that strength and resolve deters them. Amy Barrett is a perfect case in point.
We conservatives are way too tolerant of their vicious tactics and destructive ideas IMO. Its time to play hardball with them. They don’t respect anything else.
I’ve said it before,”She could give up 50 IQ points and still be the smartest person in the room”!
And who are these winners in your third party you are winning wth?
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The many people who don’t fall for the GOP’s false promises, lies and deception. Its a fake party. I want a real one. You can have the old one.
And I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see Trump start one. With the exception of a precious few in the GOP, the party as a whole hasn’t done squat to defend him over the past four years. The party is infested with duplicitous people.
Again, Trump has alluded to the endemic weakness of the GOP on several occasions and I don’t think it was idle musing. He more than anyone else knows how feckless and weak the GOP is. He knows full well just what their resistance has cost him and the country.
If Trump should start a new party people would leave the GOP in droves. The only reason anyone votes for them is that the alternative is worse.
It always amuses me to see people still defending the GOP after decades of giving lip services to conservative values, interests and objectives instead of fighting for them.
Sadly that's not true. Trump is an AMERICAN! There seems to be a growing difference.
Absolutely true. I do not view Donald Trump as a republican.
He is everything they are not.
Well. put!
The pontificating and preening of those democrats is too sickening to watch for long. They all want to impress - WHO I HAVE NO IDEA - someone - that they TOO went to law school and they are just as smart as Barrett...they were prosecutors by golly and of the highest integrity. Such high integrity - they became politicians!! Scratch a politician and find what? Yeah - an attorney! Boy - som of them are even too ugly to look at - take Blumenthal for instance - PLEASE - TAKE BLUMENTHAL. What’s wrong with VT voters anyway? Better yet - what’s wrong with New England voters?
Not one bit of those three hearings with Barrett in attendance was necessary. She can’t answer questions about theoretical cases and they know it. They’re playing to the cameras as everyone knows... I love Ted Cruz coming in after Whitehouse’s allegations/lies and calling him on them. I don’t see Whitehouse rebutting anything Cruz has said about his allegations. Cruz doesn’t need graphs or notes either...it’s like Barrett - off the top of his head!
WHOOPS - BLUMENTHAL - CT - not that there’s much difference between VT and CT. He is one UGLY dude, no doubt about it.
Excuse my typo - some (som) are even too ugly to look at..well, that’s what happens when I think of CT/VT/MA voters..I was thinking of Leahy - 45 YEARS IN THE SENATE - who I just call “mushmouth” - even without the mask, you can’t understand a word he mumbles. I don’t know how anyone can grow up and go through life not being aware of what fools they are - no shame whatsoever...
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