The Drudge Scoop on Democrats’ Planned Alito Takedown
Read it for yourself (it’s an exclusive, so he deserves the traffic), and then come back (I can wait).
Okay. This might have worked in the 1970s. Similar slime that at least supposedly related to the nominee’s conduct almost worked in 1991 (Thomas), but it didn’t (because it was a pack of lies, and because New Media, i.e., mostly Rush Limbaugh at the time, was becoming a force to be reckoned with–plus the nominee’s courage).
No way this smear works in 2006.
But, Alito opponents, have fun trying. The fact that it’s out there already means that it may be but a few days before it gets put away, right next to the “Roberts Supports Abortion Clinic Violence” box.
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Historical perspective: Nixon Supreme Court nominees Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell were defeated in the Senate in 1969 and 1970, respectively, both on grounds relating to their pre-Civil Rights Era racism and/or alleged racism. No direct allegations of racism are being made against Alito, merely a ridiculously-stretched attempt at guilt-by-association.
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UPDATE, Jan. 7 (apparently this all happened very late on Jan. 6): The beginning of the fall-apart didn’t take long — The “key witness” who was going to bring the racism charges out has been removed from the Democrats’ testimony list, per Fox (HT Ace and Anchoress). The Captain also weighs in, and notes that incensed Alito colleagues are falling over themselves to be character witnesses at the hearings.
