Preparing for the Supreme Court fight, pro-lifers were told by White House surrogates to stay out of the light and out of the newspapers, to be quiet so as not to scare the horses. Even before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement this summer, while liberal reporters worked to connect conservative concern over the Supreme Court with the abortion issue, pro-lifers were measuring their words, beating each other up, and trying not to appear too demanding of the president that, in the small margins that matter, they had elected.
Well, maybe. But maybe he was elected by those people in the middle who sometimes vote Democrat, and I suspect many of those people are pro-choice. After all, what choice does the far right and the strongly pro-life voter have? Those people are NEVER going to go for the Democrat. I believe Bush's reelection had far more to do with people agreeing with his handling on the war on terror, and not much do with people supporting the right's "official" stance on Roe v. Wade.
Ever so smoothly, pro-lifers were corralled and managed, so that if the president appointed yet another Republican disappointment to the Supreme Court, it would be too late after the fact to do anything about it.
If that happened, why would it need to happen unless the majority of Americans are pro-choice?
I resent that Miranda is to be calling for a SCOTUS nominee with a right-wing idealogical agenda, which is no more acceptable to me than a judge with a left-wing idealogical agenda. I want a judge who will fairly and impartially determine the law, regardless of personal opinion, which is what we're getting with Judge Roberts, I believe. Miranda and Senator Kennedy are two sides of the same flawed coin - trying to influence the courts with their personal beliefs.
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It's also quite odd that he quotes Krauthammer. (Pro-choice)
Personally, I'm thankful that the pro-lifer's were quiet. The jabber of nonsense was just that much less.
Now if we could just get the rest to STFU.
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