Bush is Right
Wow….. I never thought I’d actually open up Reconstitution and see this, but here it is-and I wrote it, for Dog’s sake!
No, not THAT Bush. His dad. I believe that we ought to give credit when someone is right at least as quickly as we tear someone down when they’re wrong, and I appreciate what Pere Chimpy had to say about Judge Sotomayor.
Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling HLN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama’s Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.
“I don’t know her that well but I think she’s had a distinguished record on the bench and she should be entitled to fair hearings. Not – [it's] like the senator John Cornyn said it,” he told CNN. “He may vote for it, he may not. But he’s been backing away from these…backing off from those radical statements to describe her, to attribute things to her that may or may not be true.
“And she was called by somebody a racist once. That’s not right. I mean that’s not fair. It doesn’t help the process. You’re out there name-calling. So let them decide who they want to vote for and get on with it.”
I wonder, with the benefit of hindsight that he now has, if this President Bush ever regrets some of the genies he rubbed out of the bottle, Klanservatism (Willie Horton, anyone?) perhaps being the worst one in the bunch.
Tags: george h.w. bush, racism, Sotomayor
June 13th, 2009 at 2:56 am
When he was running against St. Ronald for the GOP nomination in 1979-1980, George H.W. Bush exhibited some good sense, independent thought and a generally moderate approach. Unfortunately, when Reagan tapped him to be his No. 2, all that good stuff got filed away. He got on the neocon bandwagon and it’s where he’s been ever since.
Maybe this tepid defense of Sotomayor is a case of the old elder Bush’s decency reasserting itself. To the extent that’s so, good for him.