Ann Coulter does a nice job of detailing (with great sarcasm) the difference in the recent treatment of Supreme Court nominees offered up by differing Republican and Democrat Presidents. I'm sometimes amazed at my capacity to still be surprised by the disparity between the parties in their modus operandi. Democrats, the supposed champions of minorities, are the most racist people around, desperately covetting the votes of the minorities in such a way that they will go to extremes to destroy any minority who has a Republican label (Sarah Palin, anyone?). Meanwhile, the Republicans are too civil to do anything in the end but praise the candidate and move on, no matter how flawed (I wouldn't let Sonia Sotomayor speak on the role of appeals courts to my high school, or for that matter Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). I don't appeal to the Republicans to adopt the tactics of Demcrats by any means, but I do think you have to be willing to stick your neck out to stop an obviously flawed candidate from becominng a lifetime appointment. In the end, after all, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Republican, according to his niece and the National Black Republican Association. I highly recommend you link to the "A Covenant With Life" Adobe file and read some of the history of racism by Democrats as opposed to the treatment by supposedly racist Republicans. All of us are old enough to remember that the South used to be the bastion of the yellow dog Democrats who would rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican because of Lincoln (though Reconstruction didn't help that much.)
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