The American Spectator

Ryan| 5.11.09 @ 8:09AM

This could get interesting. She's held as fairly left by Georgians, but if she is nominated and turns into a Kennedy on the court, I suppose there could be far worse...

Trotter| 5.11.09 @ 9:35AM

Sears has virtually no chance to be nominated by Barry O. Although she is definitely left-leaning, she is not left enough to appease the racists on the left. As we all know by now, only raving leftists count as true blacks in the eyes of the race-baiters.

JP| 5.11.09 @ 3:21PM

The only thing that would pacify the Dems would be a Afro-Hispanic transgendered lesbian who spent its youth as a neo-marxist pagan activist living in a vegan commune and subsisting on peyote laced herbal tea.

L. Ross| 5.11.09 @ 3:34PM

JP,

That's a classic. Well Done.

Ray| 5.11.09 @ 3:43PM

What happend to truth is it that the dems are afraid they will find out that God is real and they will be judged at the end

Ray| 5.11.09 @ 3:45PM

When will we stand up for good and not accept the lies of the untruth.

Mary| 5.11.09 @ 6:46PM

National Council for a New America

Really?

Cantor may be a good guy, I don't know a whole lot about him. But the name of the organization is just awful.

When will a statesman emerge? I mean a real, honest-to-goodness, statesman.

I think Senator Thompson would qualify, but why would anyone want to wrestle with those who are in Congress right now? There may be more out there whose names I just can't call to mind, but pickings seem very slim.

You know, you think back on Watergate and there was Howard Baker. Clinton was impeached, but there was no Baker to be found.

People think you can have a confessing immoral culture, and that your Nation can rise above that, but it really can't. It's not that one epoch is ever substantially more moral than another, it's that one epoch possesses shame and the other does not.

Tom Paine| 5.11.09 @ 8:00PM

Oh yes!

Let's pull up a seat and listen as people on the fringes of the right wing lecture us about bigotry and lynchings!

What fun!

Michael Tomlinson| 5.11.09 @ 8:41PM

As always Tom Paine shows his lack of historical knowledge. The party that gave us Jim Crow, segregation and lynching was the racist Democrat party. The party of FDR who refused to bomb Nazi death camps, JFK sex toy of a Nazi spy, vitriolic anti-Semite Jimmy Carter and neo-Facsist Barak Obama (America's Michel Aflaq). That's the mainstream of the hate filled Democrat party who is now presiding over the worst economy since Jimmy Carter.

Tom Paine| 5.11.09 @ 9:59PM

Yes, Michael Tomlinson. The whole world knows it, to be sure.

Democrats are the racists; Republicans are the force of good fighting against racism.

And who could doubt it? Why would anyone question the obvious truth of what you say?

(Did Michael Tomlinson ever hear of the "southern strategy"?)

Tom Paine| 5.11.09 @ 10:04PM

The historical facts are these:

The Democratic party was once severely split over race issues.

Southern Democrats, often in cooperation with Republicans, were the party of segregation throughout the 20th century.

Northern Democrats, often in cooperation with some Republicans, were generally for desegregation.

In the 60s, the Democrats had a fight within their party, and basically the pro-civil rights people won. Nixon carried off the Democrats who couldn't live with our civil rights platform, and they became REPUBLICANS. During the same period, most socially liberal Republicans -- those who were more in favor of civil rights legislation -- became Democrats.

As often happens -- in history, the parties radically switched identities.

So don't give me your bullshit about the Democrats being all about Jim Crow.

And don't lecture me on history. Just because you watched a show on the history channel doesn't mean you understand American history. It requires a little more study than you've clearly done.

Curtis Rasmussen| 5.11.09 @ 10:16PM

http://members.tripod.com/~GOPcapitalist/democratrecord.html

The democrat party has a history steeped in racism, including shameless modern ambulance chasing race baiter demagogues Jessy Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Tom Paine crying racist about others? Please. This guy has also pulled the race card on TAS to forward his delusional agenda.

BD57| 5.11.09 @ 11:02PM

JP:

On behalf of whatever lefty interest group you left out .... I AM OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Paine| 5.11.09 @ 11:12PM

Curtis --

I just explained the history to you. There's no need for you to be ignorant anymore. And stop getting your facts from absurd and unreliable websites. They won't help you.

Curtis Rasmussen| 5.11.09 @ 11:45PM

Gee, thanks for the enlightenment. Reading and taking your posts as gospel is so much better.

Tranny Logic| 5.12.09 @ 1:32AM

X-rated GOP tour? Will there be Teabaggers?

Youre so fucking dumb| 5.12.09 @ 1:33AM

Sears, though, says the DOJ source, clearly would be unacceptable to the far left and liberal judicial communities. "They want a reliable liberal, just as conservatives what a reliable strict constructionist. Sears is viewed with suspicion. My guess is that she would be an underwhelming selection, and people here wanted it known and expressed that she would not be viewed with the adulation other nominations might be."

MY god, how can it be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Danjimar| 5.12.09 @ 6:55AM

Justice Sears is obviously an Obama head feint, intended to suggest that he will consider people from different judicial spectrums. It's nonsense. He will never appoint any Justice who might side with the Court's constructionalists on anything but 9 - 0 decisions.
The Democrats were the Party of slavery. Their policy of racial oppression, and all of the ugliness and brutality that came with it, continued for another 100 years, after the Civil War ended slavery. Democrats didn't find their "racial religion", until various court decisions demonstrated that their "plantation" would finally be ended from the bench. Only then did they nobly discover "civil rights", while cynically assembling their black voting bloc. Ensuing policies have done little but to destroy the black family, while moving their "plantations" to America's cities.

Tim| 5.12.09 @ 8:20AM

Once again the hypocrisy of the left is on full display. During the election for President, the media routinely dismissed any attempts to explore associations between Barry and various radicals (re: Ayers, Wright, etc...). We were told that these associations were meaningless and that attempting to expose these links were petty, low brow or out and out racist.

Barry's radical ties, to the warped liberal mind, is meaningless. However, Justice Sears' friendship w/ a respected but CONSERVATIVE Justice is grounds for dismissing her nomination before it has even been proposed.

Insane.

lessthantolerant| 5.12.09 @ 8:23AM

Good to see the crazy leftists are on every blog everywhere spewing their hatred and bigotry.

She was only nominated to appease the "black folk" so they could see he loves them.

Get a grip people he will nominate someone who supports La Raza

Michael| 5.12.09 @ 3:11PM

xOh, wow, so now even the American Spectator hires right wing extremists to write articles? Who knew! The "former collegaue of Cantor" who can't even identify himself (although it's either Chris Shays of Connecticut, Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, Jon Porter of Nevada, or Randy Kuhl of New York), has the nerve to talk about Cantor who is actually trying to listen to constituents!!! God FORBID!!! So the author thinks talking to someone who lost his seat (no ulterior motive there), is credible. It's no wonder the GOP is going the way of the Whigs.

Jacob| 5.12.09 @ 3:12PM

xOh, wow, so now even the American Spectator hires right wing extremists to write articles? Who knew! The "former collegaue of Cantor" who can't even identify himself (although it's either Chris Shays of Connecticut, Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, Jon Porter of Nevada, or Randy Kuhl of New York), has the nerve to talk about Cantor who is actually trying to listen to constituents!!! God FORBID!!! So the author thinks talking to someone who lost his seat (no ulterior motive there), is credible. It's no wonder the GOP is going the way of the Whigs.

Andy| 5.13.09 @ 5:01PM

We don't want Supreme Court Justices who are compassionate. We want them to be Republicans!

Oldefarte| 5.14.09 @ 3:05PM

Amazing, this moron, Payne, gives us lectures on the South, Republicans and racism ["Democrats are the racists; Republicans are the force of good fighting against racism.....Southern Democrats, often in cooperation with Republicans, were the party of segregation throughout the 20th century"]. Apparently this idiot is not old enough[and has probably never lived in the South] to be aware that Nelson Rockefeller or Everett Dirkson and other liberals dominated the RP until the 1980's; that Barry Goldwater's [RP] nomination of the 1960's was highly unusual and he was soundly defeated by a Southern Democrat by the name of Lyndon Johnson; that Richard Nixon was from California and was not a Southerner; that Bob Dole was from Kansas and not a Southerner; that John McCain is from Arizona and not a Southerner; and that SOUTHERNERS are not all evil, racist monsters as Payne describes. Is this fool saying that blacks are not [and have never been] discriminated against in his beloved North? Of course they are [and forever have been], but idiot liberals conveniently ignore this fact, while using racism, discrimination, disenfranchisement, gentrification, etc as spears against the South for partisan/DP political purposes [since the South now totally supports the RP]. Payne conveniently has a lapse of memory about the existance of Northern segregation, just as Pilosi has forgotten about all of those CIA briefings on EIT's [or maybe she just signed up for same while sneeking outof the meetings for a FACEJOB and a BUTTLIFT]. As to subject of Sears being a SC candidate, that's an impossibility after the political lynching that the liberal Democrats provided for his friend Thomas during his confirmation process, again due to his conservative philosophy [while ignoring his RACE]. As to Cantor's Council, conservatives would do well to become prepared for 2010 and beyond, and in doing so, strongly consider Haley Barbour as a possible candidate for President, if they want to stand a chance of saving the US from the extremist throes of Obama, Pilosi, Reid, etc that are currently ruining our country!!!!!!!!!

cimarron| 5.15.09 @ 5:09PM

let's take a wee history test, shall we?

Q) slavery, which existed before reading and writing, was finally ended, for the most part, by which two gangs of imperialistic white folks?

A) brits and yanks

Q) and what group of radicals first set out to upset that long established applecart, just because they saw it as "wrong?"

A) evangelical christians

Q) and what nation, against its own commercial interests, spent "enough to support a small kingdom," patrolling the coast of africa, to blockade slavers from plying their trade.

A) the brits

Q) why did the slave owning democrats decide to secede from the u.s?

A) because a republican had been elected president, and they feared he would end or restrict slavery.

Q) abraham lincoln was known as a softy on capital punishment, with one notable exception. what group of people did he cheerfully order to be hung from the neck until dead?

A) slave ship captains captured by his navy officers. at the height of the civil war, with the nation's fate in the balance, he still had us navy ships assigned to the blockade of the slave ports of africa. when they captured those slave ships, they sailed them back to africa, released their captives (under marine escort) to freedom, then returned to the states with the captured slavers for their trials and punishments.

Q) where does the word "slave" come from?

A) the slavs, who were enslaved by everyone from the greeks, to genghis, to the russkis. like the word aspirin, a brand name as invented by bayer, became generic for the drug.

bonus question:

liberal elitists are invariably against war for any reason, i.e. "i'm already against the NEXT war," a popular bumper sticker. and when you check the record, a correlation emerges, that there has not been an acceptable war, since tv emerged as the tube of the boobs.

the civil war was the bloodiest in our nations history. bodies stacked up like cordwood, limbs and shreds littering the landscape, a freaking carnage one would never hope to see again.

but one wonders. modern history teachers will downgrade you for saying that war was to end slavery, but the perceptions in the minds of those who fought in it, was that it was a big hunka hunka of the enchilada.

suppose, the civil war had been fought in front of tv cameras, in front of today's audiences of boobaholics, twitterers, treehuggers, vegans, new wave crystal gazer animal rights types. i mean, a lot of horses and trees got blown to shreds, as well as troops.

how many would have thought ending slavery would have been worth it? many editorials of the time, posed the question in much more strident terms. labeling lincoln as a butchering madman in their lead editorial was one of the more polite responses to his policies.

so, bonus question. what's the over/under on how many days after the first battle of bull run, where the rebs rallied, and actually shot at and chased the socialite gadflies who had accompanied the army of the potomoc to quell the rebellion, before todays audience would be demanding a simple surrender to the rebellion?

heck, if they can defend beheading journalists, as just a different way of communicating one's needs, certainly they could have wrapped enough spin around the pitch of giving in to slavery to bedazzle even ty cobb.

cimarron| 5.15.09 @ 5:26PM

"So don't give me your bullshit about the Democrats being all about Jim Crow. "

do the names "orval faubus" or "lester maddox" ring any bells?

just asking.

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