Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
What a difference a year makes. And the electorate to which he is trying to appeal (in this case, rabid GOP primary voters in Arizona). BarbinMD at Daily Kos posts this helpful reminder That Was Then, This Is Now, McCain Edition:
[On Monday] John McCain said:
… he'll oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor when the Senate votes on her confirmation this week.
The Arizona senator calls Sotomayor a judicial activist who tried to walk back from that record during her confirmation hearings. He says President Barack Obama's nominee has used her position as a judge to try to change the law.
But last year, when was was running for President:
When President Bill Clinton nominated Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg to serve on the high court, I voted for their confirmation, as did all but a few of my fellow Republicans. Why? For the simple reason that the nominees were qualified, and it would have been petty, and partisan, and disingenuous to insist otherwise. Those nominees represented the considered judgment of the president of the United States. And under our Constitution, it is the president’s call to make… It is part of the discipline of democracy to respect the roles and responsibilities of each branch of government, and, above all, to respect the verdicts of elections and judgment of the people. Had we forgotten this in the Senate, we would have been guilty of the very thing that many federal judges do when they overreach, and usurp power, and betray their trust.
Apparently getting his ass handed to him in November has turned John McCain into a petty, partisan and disingenuous little man.
Um, no, sorry Barb. Those of us who have known John McCain throughout his political career here in Arizona know first hand that he has always been this way.
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McCain sucks, but you’re being totally disingenuous with his comments. Breyer and Ginsberg were very qualified. Ideologically, they may have been opposite my beliefs, but they were qualified.
Sotomayor? Not qualified at all. She does not have a grasp of the U.S. Constitution, she outright stated she was sexist and racist. She outright admitted she bases her decisions on emotion and feeling, rather than fact. I believe nearly all, if not all, of her decisions that went to the SCOTUS were reversed.
She is not qualified, period. She doesn’t meet the standards of an impartial justice. McCain is correct in stating that qualified candidates should be given the benefit of the doubt, Sotomayor did not earn that, and was not given it.