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Posted by Jay on January 13, 2006 4:27 pm

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  1. Mike Minton on January 13th, 2006 4:53 pm

    “Statesman-One who exercises political leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship.” From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

    If I were a Democrat, this would be the time when I would have to denounce the party’s leadership and SERIOUSLY consider leaving the party.

    If John Kerry calling the honorable men and women of the United States armed forces terrorists and Howard Dean saying we cannot possibly win the war in Iraq didn’t do it, the actions of Democrats during yesterdays round of confirmation hearings for Judge Alito would.

    In true modern-day Democrat fashion, the jackasses on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a page right out of the Clinton playbook–”Nuts and Sluts.” In other words, if you can’t find factual reasons to oppose your “adversary,” go to character assassination.

    This was particularly true of Teddy ‘pour me another’ Kennedy, who, by the way, had the smack down put on him by Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA). But alas, that is for another article.

    Kennedy, along with fellow Democrat senators on the committee, could not find anything substantive to pin on Alito, so they spent their time yesterday trying to fabricate ‘evidence’ that Judge Alito was/is a racist and a sexist.

    Alluding to a student-alumni association which Alito joined some THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, and in which it has been proved that the judge had no leadership role, Kennedy and other Democrats attacked Alito’s integrity by trying to hold him accountable for something that was written by another member of the Princeton organization.

    If that type of fallacious reasoning were legitimate, I would have to start thinking of my Grandmother as a traitor and communist sympathizer. After all, she is a member of AARP, and we have all seen the recent remarks of AARP spokesman and man of the year Harry Belafonte in Venezuela, in which he called President Bush “the world’s greatest terrorist.” All while singing the praises of Venezuela’s dictator.

    Naturally, such reasoning is illogical and asinine. I have 82 years of her life upon which I can look to see the true character of my Grandmother. The Democrats in the Senate have that very same benefit with Judge Alito.

    Samuel Alito has been an Appellate Judge for 15 years. He has made decisions in over 4,000 appellate cases, and, if I remember correctly, has written the opinion in some 500 of those. There is certainly plenty of track record that is actually RELEVANT which Democrats can use to form their opinions of this man. Unfortunately for their cause, there is nothing in those 15 years of Alito’s tenure on the federal court on which Kennedy and his fellow character assassins can base their objections.

    The most emotional part of this whole process came late yesterday when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) apologized for the juvenile behavior of his Democrat counterparts. As Sen. Graham was citing the glowing endorsements of those who know Mr. Alito, including black and female judges, the nominee’s wife began crying and had to leave the proceedings.

    This is a sad commentary on the tactics the Democrats have chosen to employ to try and keep this good man off the Supreme Court.

    As Sen. Graham said, if these types of tactics continue to be used against nominees, good men and women will choose not to go into public service. Something has got to be done.

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