January 27, 2006
MEMORANDUM
TO: JCN State Leaders, Coalition Partners, and Interested Parties
FROM: Gary Marx and Wendy E. Long, Judicial Confirmation Network
DATE: January 27, 2006
RE: Kerry Plays Race Card, Attempts Filibuster, Appeases Far Left
Incredibly, even though a bipartisan majority of U.S. Senators have announced they will vote to confirm Judge Sam Alito as the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Angry Liberal Mob is making one last, desperate attempt to stop his nomination or at least to sling as much mud as they can at the newest Supreme Court Justice and at the President on the eve of the State of the Union address.
Yesterday, with the help of fellow Massachusetts liberal Ted Kennedy, John Kerry launched the first "international" filibuster from the slopes of the Alps in Davos, Switzerland. Today, the liberal extremist duo has flipped Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid from saying he would not back a filibuster, to saying he would vote for one.
What's going on here? In short, the Democrats are trying to see who can "out-liberal" each other. At least, those who are trying to win the Democratic nomination for President and those who are desperate for money from extremist Left deep pockets.
John Kerry refuses to be "out-smeared." He gave a speech just now on the Senate floor that rivals Ted Kennedy's 1987 smear of Judge Bork, in which Kennedy claimed that in "Judge Bork's America," blacks would "sit at segregated lunch counters." Kerry's Race Card goes like this: In Judge Alito's America, "it's okay to shoot . . . a fleeing, unarmed . . . 15 year-old African American . . . in the back of the head." In Judge Alito's America, "we know what's going to happen in this country to the rights to the challenges of minorities to vote . . . We still see minorities denied opportunities to register, opportunities to have equal numbers of voting machines in their district."
Kerry, the political loser, is acting like George Wallace after his 1958 defeat in his first race for Governor. Wallace vowed that he would never again be "out-segged" and vowed to be the loudest voice for racial segregation in future political campaigns. Kerry has apparently decided that he will not be "out-smeared" and is reaching for the high-water mark for smearing judicial candidates previously held by Ted Kennedy.
Take heart. Justice Alito will be seated on the Supreme Court. The distortions and division being sown by John Kerry and Ted Kennedy will come back to haunt them, and the Democratic Party. Mainstream America in the long run will always stand for highly qualified, impartial judges and for a fair process, and for Senators who do their jobs and vote not who unfairly smear good men like Judge Alito.
|
