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Smearing Jeff Sessions

By Michelle Malkin • May 6, 2009 11:37 AM

The left-wing blogosphere has been busy slinging mud at Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has taken over the lead GOP spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee. All on cue, the liberal bloggers are recycling old quotes out of context to smear Sen. Sessions as a racist and cripple the Republicans from voicing any opposition to President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee.

The race-obsessed leftists are the ones wearing the bigot blinders. They see every white Southern Republican male in public office as a de facto racist. Hey, never mind that Sen. Sessions voted to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General (a mistake, in my opinion, but an inconvenient fact the smear merchants won’t acknowledge). This is uncontestable: Sen. Sessions is a man of integrity. If he is extreme about anything, it’s about fair-mindedness. After the Left used slimy race-card tactics to kill his bid for a federal judgeship in 1986, he has served in office for more than two decades with character and distinction. He conducts himself with the utmost civility in hearings and on the Senate floor — and his colleagues on both sides of the aisle say so. Because of his own unfair treatment during the judicial confirmation process, Sen. Sessions has made clear that he will insist on a tough but fair hearing for any nominee.

As we learned during the Clarence Thomas hearings, character assassination is the stock and trade of Democrats in the SCOTUS wars. Refresh your memories of how outrageously Ted Kennedy and company
tried to beat Justice Alito over the head with the race card. Kennedy then attempted to paint Alito as hostile to women, while maintaining a membership at a club that bans women from membership. They have no shame.

Democrats in the Senate aren’t going to stand up to these bully tactics. Every Republican in the Senate with a centimeter of spine should rally behind Sessions and call out the Left for its preemptive strategy to stifle substantive debate about Obama’s Supreme Court nomination. This is no time to sit on the sidelines while one of your colleagues is baselessly defamed to provide a grand distraction. It’s time for the GOP fight back.

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Meanwhile, the bean-counters on the Left show their true colors. It’s not about qualifications. It’s about checking off the politically correct “diversity” box.

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#696462

On May 7th, 2009 at 11:42 am, DBNinKY said:

However, I don’t recall Ronald Reagan ever extolling the virtues of states’ rights outside of the South. And I certainly can’t recall the last time a Democratic candidate for president visited any schools that ban interracial dating.

Alas…since we have to play “Equivocation Sez,” I’ll counter your speaking at anti-interracial dating schools, w/ 20 years of Reverend Wright’s “sermons.” Fair enough?
#696482

On May 7th, 2009 at 11:58 am, conservative in europe said:

RSS,

We didn’t discuss anything ad nauseum. You proved that the Civil Rights Act was passed in ‘64. Good for you. Now, every time you call a white southerner racist you label an ethnic group based solely on the color of their skin and place of birth. Last I checked, that is a racist way of looking at things.

You continually use the title of racist for anyone who is conservative, white and/or Southern. Again, the use of your Dem group/victim mentality destroys your own point. The conversation we had a couple of nights ago started off with your own blatantly bigoted statements.

Roy Barnes became Governor of Georgia because Bill Clinton created a whole class of Southern Republicans (who did not vote Republican beforehand) with his gun control campaign in ‘93. Read his book – you might learn something.

If you are in the South, Delta and I-75 are ready when you are..
Go preach somewhere else bigot.
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On May 7th, 2009 at 11:49 pm, SHoward said:

Okay, no one else has come back around, so I get the 100th post this time.
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On May 8th, 2009 at 3:04 am, frontierguy said:

I read a book about 5 years ago, written by secret service members chronicalling the lives of the presidents and their families. It went from JFK to Clinton and was really fascinating. I have searched for it and cannot find it, don’t remember the title, if anyone knows or can find it, that would be awesome, I’d like to read it again. A secret service man who was present when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 64 said that Johnson said, this will keep the (n words) voting democrat for the next 100 years.

Apparently before the civil rights act, most of them voted republican and the democrats wanted their votes. That is the democrat party in a nutshell, racist undertones. Wonder what Johnson would say today about that nugget. Wonder how he would claim he was taken out of context.