Supreme Court | 05/19/2009 8:30 am

Possible Female Justices Targeted in Right-Wing Internet Ads (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

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Elana Kagan, Diane Wood and Sonia Sotomayor are receiving the right-wing treatment this week as conservative groups attempt to derail the women’s potential paths to the Supreme Court. A series of internet videos depict the women as partisan and ill-equipped for the High Court.

Wood is taken to task for her opinion that Christian groups that prohibit gay members should not be able to use a university’s facilities, while Kagan is criticized for prohibiting military recruiters from entering law school campuses, because the military does not allow gay people to serve.

For her part, Sotomayor receives jeers for rejecting a discrimination suit filed by white firefighters who say their promotion tests were tossed because no people of color passed.

All three, for example, are described as "hard-left activists who would decide cases based on their feelings and their personal political agendas."

Here are the videos from Obama’s Frontrunners, via MSNBC:

Elana Kagan:

Diane Wood:

Sonia Sotomayor:

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Amazing how the immaturity of these people just continues to regress. He hasn’t even picked anyone and they are whining already. Nopupilican,noideas,noanswers. Everyone will just say no to them in 2010 and 2012.

By S G on 05/19/2009 8:34 am

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What is amazing to me, SG, is that these groups overuse the expression, "activist judge" and convince people that "activist judges" only come from the "liberals". There are several activist right leaning judges already on the Court; indeed the Republicans and Bush Administration sought to pack the court with them…

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobin

By Diana T on 05/19/2009 8:51 am

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Absolutely correct Di—Take the Chief Justice for example.

By f p on 05/19/2009 9:11 am

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Di have you seen the latest Gallup Poll on the losses the GOP is taking in nearly every demographic?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118528/GOP-Losses-Span-Nearly-Demographic-Groups.aspx

By f p on 05/19/2009 9:40 am

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Frank, I read this somewhere in the news this morning. This is the first I have seen the actual results.

I find it very interesting. I have said for some time that the GOP has lost touch with the direction of the demographics. They don’t understand the reality that most of us have moved on from social issues and demagoguery, probably by necessity. Most people want to see their issues addressed and not this constant talk about "smaller government" at the same time the party is telling us what to do with our bodies and who we can sleep with. The GOP is simply not the same party that it was when I was gravitating in their direction. As I have said many times, I felt them pushing people like me out of the party as far back as the 80’s, and I think it’s taken this long for the cycle to start swinging back to the middle.

Have you had a talk with a young person lately? A graduate student? They aren’t worrying about these issues at all. Their ideals are trying to figure out new and inventive ways to improve our environment, innovate new modes of transportation, renew the economy. It’s actually quite exciting to my way of thinking. Change excites me. I think we are going through a huge transition mentally as well as physically in this country, and for many people, change is something to fear and/or be angry about. People like Rust etal. know this and can play these people like a fiddle. Unfortunately, they don’t know what they are missing….

By Diana T on 05/19/2009 10:45 am

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Yep I agree, Di. Even Reagan called Cheney and his ilk "the crazies in the basement"! That is a direct quote btw.

By f p on 05/19/2009 10:55 am

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Oh, I remember, Frank. Didn’t that bunch also include Oliver North, who, incidentally, I always believed should have gone to the slammer for what he did…

By Diana T on 05/19/2009 5:46 pm

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Yep—that b******. He should have gone to the slam big time.

By f p on 05/19/2009 6:01 pm

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But, instead, he ended up on FOX as a "reliable and balanced" source…

By Diana T on 05/19/2009 6:06 pm

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Yes Diana… what about the ‘activist judges’ who put Bush into office in 2000?

Who cares what these right wing extremists think, they are just further marginalizing themselves. Their ads are just preaching to the choir and further separating the GOP from moderates.

By DeBúrca obj on 05/19/2009 11:18 am

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Their ads are just preaching to the choir and further separating the GOP from moderates.

DeBurca, shhh!!!!! If you let them know what they are doing wrong they might fix it. I say keep the Black Hole of Ideas going. It will hasten their much needed extinction.

By Rebecca G on 05/19/2009 2:00 pm

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The thing is, DeB, I know plenty of Moderate Republicans. Where is their voice?

By Diana T on 05/19/2009 5:46 pm

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But Diana I think that group feels they can do anything and justify it away. It is a one sided debate in their view,theirs is the only side. Quite sad isn’t it. I agree by the way that they have stocked it with right wing judges. Your point is made ultra clear as in 2000 when Al Gore actually won and the supreme court shut down the recount. That isn’t enforcing interpreting the law,that is stacking it.

By S G on 05/19/2009 1:10 pm

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Yes, but it has been extremely entertaining watching the right wing implode.

The only tricks they have left are "Do as I say, Not as I do." and FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! The vast majority of Americans just ain’t buying that anymore.

If they want to become relevant again they need to go educate themselves about who Barry Goldwater was and what he stood for. If they embraced true Conservatism again and not this Religious and Fear based Bat-Sh***ery then people will flock to them rather than run from them. You know, like Barry Goldwater did.

By Rebecca G on 05/19/2009 8:55 am