[moneyrunner]

Bob,

God bless your for your racial neutrality, but you are incorrect. For the Democrats the Estrada nomination is PRIMARILY about race. You may not have noticed, but they confirmed several white judges prior to opposing the Estrada nomination. Do you have a reason to suppose that these judges were less conservative than Estrada? If so, why?

The Democrat reason for opposing Estrada is because he is both conservative and a minority. That is a combination they will not allow. That’s why they tried to destroy Thomas, who was both conservative and Black. Their hatred of this combination is like the hatred of slave owners for escaped slaves. It threatens their way of life.

The fear that the Left has with Estrada is that he will be impossible to oppose for the Supreme Court (because of his ethnicity) if he is confirmed for the Circuit Court.

If he were a white candidate, there would not be a filibuster.

[FITZ]

That is a combination they will not allow. That’s why they tried to destroy Thomas, who was both conservative and Black.

I don't think it was for Thomas being Black because they tried to do to him what they did to Bork who wasn't Black but White. It's about abortion ---not race, if Thomas was pro-abortion, they'd have been much more fond of him.

[Political Junkie Too]

To echo further, it isn't just that Estrada is a minority. It's because the Democrats feel that appointing minorities is exclusively their domain.

They resent that Bush and Republicans have beaten them to appointing minorities to positions of real power in the government. Estrada is just the latest in the string of "firsts" that Republicans can claim.

The Democrats are blocking Estrada partly so that they can later appoint an Hispanic and then claim to be the first.

-PJ

[uncbob]

God bless your for your racial neutrality, but you are incorrect. For the Democrats the Estrada nomination is PRIMARILY about race

Was BORK about race and how about the other Judge that they wouldn't allow a vote on when they had the majority . No race there

It is his conservatism