Explain your definition of credible? Andrew McCabe worked for many of the same organizations and would you consider him credible?
Why does the left always resort to character assassination?
- Judge Bork- denied for smoking dope- The left wanted to legalize pot at the time but for some reason, if you smoked pot you could not be be a SC justice
- Judge Thomas- Since he was a black judge, they had to find a black women to try and take him down. He fought back and was appointed anyway
- President HW Bush- Out of touch with society, (he was) and Iran Contra, oh yea, he puked on a japanese PM which makes him to frail to hold office.
- President Bush- Affair with a secretary. Stayed and finished reading to a classroom full of kids while the twin towers were going down. Blamed for high gas prices.
- Judge Alieto- Racist
- Sen. McCain- Manchurain candidate. Too old to hold office.
- Gov. Romney- Was Morman and hated women.
- President Trump-first golden showers and then Russian collusion. Now sleeping with porn stars.
- Judge Kav.- Tried to slow it down hoping that they could make it to the midterms where they hoped to take over congress and then be able to force a delay until 2020 or until they can throw Trump and Pence out so that the speaker can take over. They trotted out a soft claim of rape, followed it up with another claim on indecent exposure and now they go full force with gang rape.
The right trying the same tactics:
- Kennedy- Nothing. Only to find he did sleep with spys and do drugs while in office
- Carter- Really did not have to do anything, he did it to himself
- Clinton- Took existing claims while he was gov. and magnified them by ten. Kept looking until he was putting out cigars in an intern in the oval office and thought no-one would ever tell.
- Obama- He is not an American citizen. Tried to say he hung with far left people. After office, pictures come out with him hanging with far left leaders while in office but was kept secret until he left office.
- Judge Kegan-Had never been a judge before (1st in the history of the US)
- Judge Sotomeyer- In one of her briefs, she stated that a Latino women would have better judgement than a white man.
You have some factual errors.
Left vs Right:
The nominee after Bork, Ginsburg, admitted to smoking pot in college and removed himself from the process. No one was trying to legalize pot back then. Bork was voted down due to some claims of prejudice. Take that however you choose.
Judge Thomas was investigated for sexual harassment in an age when sexual harassment wasn't seen as a huge issue like it is today. The Dem controlled Senate (and committee) decided to not take testimony from other women with similar accusations.
GHWB lost an election in a three-way race with Ross Perot taking votes primarily from his supporters. He was also locked in a race against a much better politician, Clinton, when the economy was down, and he had raised taxes despite his promise not to.
The biggest complaint I heard about GWB was that he was riding his father's coat tails. He had success because of his name, not his accomplishments. He was slighted for several things once he was President, but what President isn't.
Justice Alito had aligned himself previously with an organization at Princeton that sought to keep women out and disregard Affirmative Action with respect to candidates for faculty positions and students. He disavowed the stance of the organization.
McCain was damaged mostly by being of the same party as the current office holder while the economy was in turmoil. A lot of folks applauded his character, mainly because he refused to bow to the folks who tried to paint Obama as a Muslim Kenyan.
Romney was damaged by his business practices, rightly or wrongly. He was successfully painted as a rich guy who didn't understand regular people. The 47% comment he made on tape gave credence to those thoughts.
President Trump made 100 statements that would have derailed any other candidate in the course of the election. People on the left held his feet to the fire regarding that more than anything else. The Russia stuff followed the election.
I'll leave the Kav stuff alone because I think we, the public, don't have enough reliable info to decide either way right now.
On the other side:
Kennedy was part of a powerful, rich public family. He did some terrible things, but he won elections and passed legislation. That's not a defense of his actions, only that he had to answer to his voters on the charges against him.
Carter has shown himself to be a person of character, especially after leaving office. That didn't make him a good president.
Clinton was a very good politician. He ran against 2 very good men, GHWB and Dole, and he beat both fairly easily. People used to call Reagan the Teflon President. That was really Clinton. No matter what you got on him, nothing would stick.
Obama had a picture taken with Louis Farakhan when Obama was a senator. that didn't come out until recently. The birth certificate stuff was a bunch of conspiracy stuff.
Justice Kagan is not the first person appointed without any prior experience on the bench. Justice Rehnquist was appointed by Nixon in the early 70's, and he had never sat on the bench before. He later became Chief Justice (GHWB appointment I believe). Also, before Justice Sotomayor was nominated for an open seat by President Obama, Justice Scalia spoke highly of the possibility of Kagan being nominated. He thought highly of her credentials.
Most of the concern over Sotomayor was about that statement, although I think that's from a speech, not a legal brief.