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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  1. #695507
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    An honest man is often known by his enemies. Ted “Splash” Kennedy IS a racist-he has three children ALL WHITE.
    (To the best of my knowledge :evil: )

  2. #695508
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am, Jeff2161 said:

    Diversity of color, Lock-step in thought. Question…Why doesn’t Obama just sic the MSM on him, after threatening him first ? Maybe, Rahm can’t find a good fish-market in D.C. ?

  3. #695509
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    The beauty of this is that the Dems have completely hosed Specter on committee assignments. He is now a junior Democratic senator on all committees except the Committee on Aging. Whatever deal he cut with Sheriff Joe Biden, it looks like he was bargaining from a weak position of “Get me out of the GOP!” and accepted whatever he was offered.

    Looks like a conservative victory to me all around. Maybe that is what has got the libs bent out of shape.

  4. #695510
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am, Jeff2161 said:

    Ted “Splash” Kennedy

    :) LMAO

  5. #695511
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am, Flyoverman said:

    Message to the Left: Deal with it. He’s our pick, not yours.

    Good luck with your nominee.

  6. #695512
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I for one miss Uncle Teddy’s bloviating over judicial picks, it’s great entertainmnet, but there are enough stooges to go around. (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!

  7. #695514
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:45 am, Jeff2161 said:

    Committee on Aging

    Now, he can finally cure cancer !

  8. #695515
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    rats! s/b entertainment.

  9. #695516
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I hate it when I get my mords wixed!

  10. #695519
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    He is now a junior Democratic senator on all committees

    Hopefully as in: ” Hey Junior! Go get us some coffee and doughnuts! And make it snappy!”

  11. #695520
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am, walterc said:

    How do we go about nominating Condi? After all she is an intelligent well qualified black woman. Two minority groups that need more representation on the court.

    Then we could make “misogynistic racist” accusations when she isn’t selected.

  12. #695522
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am, rplatt said:

    To hell with the the bigoted left . . . they are comprised of the most racist scum on the face of the earth.

  13. #695523
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:50 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:49 am, walterc said:
    How do we go about nominating Condi? After all she is an intelligent well qualified black woman. Two minority groups that need more representation on the court.

    Then we could make “misogynistic racist” accusations when she isn’t selected.

    They’ll just paint her with the “torture” brush from the prior administration.

  14. #695525
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am, hawkeye54 said:

    After all she is an intelligent well qualified black woman.

    By that definition, she’ be a sure reject from the current administration and congress.

    Would be more helpful to her, if she did want to pursue appointment, to have visited and lavished praise on Fidel, owe backtaxes and own five or six houses with mortgages which are in default.

  15. #695529
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I still don’t understand why, after the grilling and rejection of Judge Bork and John Tower by Senate Demonrats, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACLU’s abortion rights chief litigator sailed through a Republican Senate.

  16. #695530
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am, PhredE said:

    One of the honest few remaining in Congress. And who could forget – he was the only one that dared recognize on the floor of the Senate, the enormous public outrage registered during the last ‘go-round’ over amnesty (June 2007):

    This is one Independent that’ll support you 100% Mr. Sessions.

  17. #695533
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm, sonofdy said:

    They should pick Michelle Malkin for the supreme court. After all, according to the left, she is a black, jewish, asian, hispanic chinesse, pacfic islander woman.

    SHE CHECKS ALL THE BLOCKS!!!

    ;-)

  18. #695539
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, Jeff2161 said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm, sonofdy said:

    Except for, one thing…They only like whores of the Left…

    sarc

    No offense, Michelle.
    Just another right-wing extremist.

  19. #695540
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    SHE CHECKS ALL THE BLOCKS!!!

    She’s not gay…she won’t qualify.

  20. #695543
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, sonofdy said:

    She’s not gay…she won’t qualify.

    True true….

    Hell if she kisses madonoa the job is hers!!!

    Just kidding, I wouldn’t kiss madona with LGM’s mouth.

  21. #695546
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pm, sims said:

    Unfortunately, the left’s tactics of pointing fingers and discrediting someone has been working very well for them. They get all the news, talk show play. The Republican party is laying on it’s back begging for mercy right now. Every time one of their own gets smeared they oust them. That is something the Dems count on when they start the smears. Notice Obama has never given in to smears. He just throws someone else under the bus and moves on. The Republicans and Conservatives need to, as Michelle says, stand up for their own. The question is, will they?

  22. #695558
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pm, Living in the PSRK said:

    sonofdy: I think Michelle is Catholic. It may be that here hubby is Jewish, though.

  23. #695559
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:31 pm, spaceycakes said:

    yes; what sims said.

    The Repubs. are taking a clue from the community organizer’s rulebook: every time one of their own is challenged (even w/out cause or evidence), they chuck ‘em under the bus too.

  24. #695562
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:33 pm, right_on said:

    A simple question here;

    When will enough, be enough?

    We can complain all we want, point fingers at the perpetrators, and discuss it, but nothing is going to change until someone takes a stand, and fights back.

    Until then, these socialist-minded termites eat away at the very foundation of America. The wormwood covertly placed as “freedom’s voice” will eventually crumble if it’s not replaced with a structure which is impervious to this disease, decay and insects (socialism).

    The only foundation material that will work, and has worked, is Redwood (conservatism.)

  25. #695564
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, tonyr951 said:

    As Jesse would say “If they fear you, they will smear you”

  26. #695569
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, nuss said:

    Good one sonofdy!!! I will be using some permutation of that quip in the near future.

  27. #695574
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:41 pm, sonofdy said:

    sonofdy: I think Michelle is Catholic. It may be that here hubby is Jewish, though.

    Those are all things her liberal hate mail writers have accused her of being.

    I personaly have no idea what her religon is, nor do i care.

  28. #695576
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I still don’t understand why, after the grilling and rejection of Judge Bork and John Tower by Senate Demonrats, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACLU’s abortion rights chief litigator sailed through a Republican Senate.

    Gutless punks? Is that what you were looking for? Not that I mean to be judgmental-not by any means. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also the go to gal for Man Boy ‘Love” and child sex.

    Bork em all. Waterboarding might help. I’ll bring the board. Not that I mean to be judgmental-not by any means.

  29. #695577
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, Paul Revere said:

    They are so predictable, and it won’t work on Jeff Sessions. Memo to the Left: the honorable Jeff Session is not anything like a McCain, Specter, Graham, Collins, or Snowe. He will not roll over and play dead. Nor will we ever again.

  30. #695579
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, DanMan said:

    Our local pravda the Houston Chronicle promotes a couple of unhinged bloggers and prominently feature them a couple of times a day on the web sight. Locals refer to these guys as the salad sisters and one of them is an Obama insider with pretty good wealth.

    Yesterday’s theme was Jeff Sessions as I’m sure it was in several of your local e-papers if they subscribe to the Hearst/Soros network. Their most consistent supporters I bet frequent your local sites as well because most of them cannot comment on anything local in detail. I am imagining an organizations of twerps in their grandparents basements sitting around all day generating hateful comments to spam their blogs with. What a full life that must be.

  31. #695580
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm, zorro said:

    It’s time for the GOP fight back.

    Snort! That will be the day.

    The GOP has a severe shortage of intestinal fortitude and not enough “malkins” to speak out. Do not misunderstand, I wish they would speak out in defense of Sen. Jeff Sessions, but judging from past experience, republican senators would rather lick the hand that beats them than bark back.

  32. #695582
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    …he has served in office for more than two decades with character and distinction.

    If 2 terms is good enough for the president, it’s good enough for Congress. Enough with these 20 and 30-year Washington sinecures.

    TERM LIMITS!

  33. #695585
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, md1964 said:

    At the rate we are going.. in a few short years.. it may be a Crime in this country to be: an Employed, White, Married, Heterosexual, English Speaking, Christian Male.

    Lord knows to the Homeland security Department, these traits warrant extra fear and must get “Passive Survellence”.

  34. #695592
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    At the rate we are going.. in a few short years.. it may be a Crime in this country to be: an Employed, White, Married, Heterosexual, English Speaking, Christian Male.

    Add ‘Veteran’ to that and you have the modern day boogie man.

  35. #695596
    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:57 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I still don’t understand why, after the grilling and rejection of Judge Bork and John Tower by Senate Demonrats, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACLU’s abortion rights chief litigator sailed through a Republican Senate.

    Because she was recommended to Clinton by Orrin Hatch.

  36. #695598
    On May 6th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, Freddy said:

    This might be one of those cases where if the left gets what they want, Sessions out of the way, that they can never get a nominee through. The next Republican that replaces Sessions may well be far more of a ‘right wing extremist’ than he is!

  37. #695643
    On May 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm, tre said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, md1964 said:
    At the rate we are going.. in a few short years.. it may be a Crime in this country to be: an Employed, White, Married, Heterosexual, English Speaking, Christian Male.

    I’ll wear my Scarlet Letter with pride then.

    If the looney, leftwing liberals hate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, then there must be something good about him. They’re constantly screaming about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin, and they’re all good Christian Conservatives.

  38. #695656
    On May 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pm, flenser said:

    People on the left think that Ted Kennedy is a wonderful human being. That tells you all you need to know about the worth of their moral compass.

    And they have no problem with Byrd now, or with Fritz Hollings until he finally lost a election. Or with Bull Connor, or with George Wallace.

    These people worship power. Period.

  39. #695660
    On May 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, flenser said:

    Because she was recommended to Clinton by Orrin Hatch.

    What is wrong with the state of Utah? It’s like a verion of Maine stuck out west. All the Republicans from that state are borderline useless.

  40. #695675
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Mr. Sessions is one of the nation’s finest
    jurists.

    He EARNED a reputation as a REAL fighter of racism.

    That, of course, makes a lot of Dimocrats crazy. They HAVE to destroy a man who actually has done what they only talk about doing. Their tool of choice is always personal destruction. Any lie, no matter how blatant, is permissible.

    He should be on SCOTUS.

  41. #695684
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, Brian72 said:

    I like this Senator, better than my two Senators (Alexander, Corker). I wish there were a way to trade. :lol:

    He’s an easy target to smear this way, as long as no one pays attention to what he is actually saying, which is very solid every time, whether it’s the judicial issues, crime, national security, immigration, economic liberty.

    His full name is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. White Male Christian from Alabama. Listen to his accent, and ignore what he actually says. Photoshop a portrait of General Robert. E. Lee in full uniformed regalia with Session’s face cropped in, and a confederate battle flag too. There you go, all over again, the same game as 1986.

    All the while ignoring the most senior Democrat Senator, former Majority Leader, former chairman of everything, former Grand Dragonhead Kleagle Poobah of the actual KKK.

    These people have no shame.

  42. #695685
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:16 pm, T-Bone said:

    Any lie, no matter how blatant, is permissible.

    Straight frrom the Al Qaeda Democrat playbook. They must be proud.

  43. #695688
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pm, By Choice said:

    As a right wing extremist I know a good man when I see one and Sen Jeff Sessions is one of the good ones. If he is being vilified by the left that is proof he is honest, committed and effective. The left only consider RINO’s their comrades and worthy of their patronage.

  44. #695697
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, conservative in europe said:

    In the South, we gun totin’, Bible thumpin’, ignorant white folk don’t like racist bigots.. so we refuse to vote Dem.

    The immediate attacks on Senator Sessions highlight the Democrats’ race/class war promotion for political gain. This should be an eeeeeeasy way for the RNC to shine the light on Democrat race baiting hypocracy. But.. I would bet the farm those spineless Republicans at the National Committee won’t have the minerals to act..

  45. #695700
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    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.

    That’s what Democrat[ic Socialist Communist]s do.

    The Program of the Communist Party USA mentions variations on the word “race” (racial, racism, racist) 124 times and “oppress” (oppression, oppressed) 116 times.
    It carries the same theme as the egregious indoctrination program at the University of Delaware: that white male capitalists are oppressors and the system (capitalism) must be dismantled.

    These liberal bloggers are just mirroring the actions of their “Dear Leader”… Using Racism In Order To Form A More Socialist Union

  46. #695704
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Just like Rush Limbaugh and Carrie Prejean, Senator Jeff Sessions is being “Alinsky’ed”.

  47. #695706
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:32 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Please read the post and the updates contained in the comments…

    What to Expect From Obama’s Supreme Court Pick

  48. #695710
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pm, conservative in europe said:

    In the South, we gun totin’, Bible thumpin’, ignorant white folk don’t like racist bigots.. so we refuse to vote Dem.

    Amen to that!

    The immediate attacks on Senator Sessions highlight the Democratic Socialist Communists’ race/class war promotion for political gain.

    Fixed that for ya’.

  49. #695753
    On May 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    How intellectually bankrupt is this blog when MM won’t even mention what Jeff Sessions said, or provide any context in rebuttal.

    I would love to hear some context that makes Sessions’ statement that the NAACP “forced civil rights down the throats of people” sound a little less segregationist.

    The fact that Sessions voted to confirm Eric Holder means nothing. Lestor Maddox employed several blacks, but was no less adament about his segregationist stance.

  50. #695764
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, 24Klady said:

    Just last evening I opened my mail to find a sneaky way of fund raising from the RNCC. They are going to get it shoved back in their face with the recommendation they actually support and run candidates that we the little people want. Until then, they can pound sand. I refuse to vote for anyone else that I have to hold my nose and push the button. Talking down to us by saying we have to let go of nostalgia and move on – bull pucky, Ronald Reagan’s common sense and his ability to bring the best out of our citizens is not to be mocked and scorned. I believe Sen. Sessions holds the same beliefs in his heart that Repubs used to have and cherish.

  51. #695803
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, T-Bone said:

    Senate Democrats tracked down a career justice department employee named J Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labelled the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) “un-American” and “communist-inspired”. Hebert said Sessions had claimed these groups “forced civil rights down the throats of people.”

    Heres some context. Democrats “tracked down” someone who said that he said that in private. Sounds a little like a Dan Rather National Guard episode to me. Who is Hebert? Is he a Democrat? Does he have an axe to grind? In what context did Sessions allegedly say that?

    Sessions denied he said it. Was there a further investigation as to who the liar was? Would any investigation be bi partisan? I guess he is just guilty by hearsay. That’s the liberal way. Just say it, repeat it over and over and eventually, people will think that it is true. See BDS. I call BS.

  52. #695808
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pm, rightisright said:

    It’s purely amazing to me how shameless these libs are…sociopaths, libs are a perfect fit.
    Sociopath: a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

    The definition brings “The Swimmer” to mind.

  53. #695818
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is why no one respects you people, none of you represent America, you support racist idiots – this guy is a complete joke, a worse joke than Palin and that’s who you support.

  54. #695834
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:49 pm, bjc said:

    *If there ever is secession, I’m backing President Sessions; He adheres to the constitution, and we can do no better than that; P-BO has been saying, “constitution, what constitution?”, and his SCOTUS pick will be the same; Bank on it.

  55. #695848
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm, SHoward said:

    Hey, ILMC, Robert Byrd, Grand Wizard.

  56. #695850
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, SHoward said:

    Forgot one thing:

    Hey, ILMC, Robert Byrd, Grand Wizard. Democrat

    There, now it’s complete.

  57. #695851
    On May 6th, 2009 at 3:57 pm, pabarge said:

    Bork, baby.

    It’s not just for DIM-o-crats any more.

    Bork.

    Remember that word.

  58. #695860
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pm, mchristian said:

    Ilovemycountry

    Yet you take the time out of your day to come to this website that you so loathe and attempt to educate us despite our obvious unworthiness. You are too good, too good by half.

  59. #695879
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    Sessions has pledged to make nice over the SCOTUS nominee proferred by Obama. Reason number 8,749 that we are never going to recover from the damage done by the BHO administration, and why I probably won’t vote GOP again. We keep taking velvet gloves to a boxing match!

  60. #695884
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, T-Bone said:

    Say it to yourself over and over and eventually it will become true. Click your heels 3 times.

  61. #695889
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    T-Bone, I notice you didn’t quote the entire paragraph you cited. Just where do you get your information that Sessions denies that he ever said that the NAACP “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” It seems as though he plays the same defense MM does, that he was taken out of context.

    Senate Democrats tracked down a career Justice Department employee named J. Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labeled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.” Hebert said Sessions had claimed these groups “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” In his confirmation hearings, Sessions sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as “un-American” when “they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions” in foreign policy. Hebert testified that the young lawyer tended to “pop off” on such topics regularly, noting that Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a “disgrace to his race” for litigating voting rights cases. Sessions acknowledged making many of the statements attributed to him but claimed that most of the time he had been joking, saying he was sometimes “loose with [his] tongue.” He further admitted to calling the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a “piece of intrusive legislation,” a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings.

    Of course it’s not like most segregationists speak their peace in public, but from what we already know about Jeff Sessions (in addition to Katon Dawson, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Geoff Davis, George Allen, and a host of other southern Republicans with questionable, er, racial sensitivity) the evidence is stacked against him.

  62. #695910
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, WisCon said:

    The Leftists in the country are below scum. They are the sickest, most twisted group in American politics.

  63. #695916
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm, T-Bone said:

    Read it for yourself. Written by a Sessions hater no less.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/05/jeff-sessions-arlen-specter-judiciary-committee

    You see, hearsay conviction is only good when its a Republican. Everyone else is considered innocent until proven guilty.

    I didn’t see a conviction here nor an admittance to the exact allegations. Someone saying they are joking is not admitting to the context of the allegation. You should be skeptical of what you hear Skeptic.

  64. #695950
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, vickisoup said:

    T-Bone’s right. Whenever a liberal says they’re providing testimony, “reluctantly”, it is never, ever reluctantly and it’s rarely, if ever, true.
    Having said that, I believe that the NAACP and the ACLU exist, at least for the past 15 years, to shove affirmative action down the throats of every American who dares to actually think everyone, regardless of the color of their skin or who they’re sleeping with, should have to earn their own success. Their biggest hammer is the cry of “Racism” whenever someone dares to take them on. And that IS unamerican. So I’m sorry that Sessions didn’t actually say that, because if he had actually said it, I would agree with him.
    8)

  65. #695954
    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:53 pm, conservative in europe said:

    RSS,

    Lester Maddox was a Democrat.

    Like most Dems, he was a Bigot. He just had the guts to admit it.

  66. #695966
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pm, mchristian said:

    From the link provided by T-bone

    senator Ted Kennedy to announce it was “inconceivable … that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a US attorney, let alone a United States federal judge.”

    I find it inconceivable that this murdering sot should be a senator, and yet, he is.

  67. #695976
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    I find it inconceivable that this murdering sot should be a senator, and yet, he is.

    True dat. And Janet Reno gave the order to incinerate 80 people, including women and children, at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, burning them alive. Instead of being called a murderer, which she is, she’s heralded a hero (I was going to type, “heroine”, but decided to stick with the masculine…meow) for admitting the error in judgment and that “the buck stops here”. Wonder how much that little boo-boo cost the taxpayers. Yet…her protoge is now the USAG. Go figure.
    :roll:

  68. #695985
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:18 pm, T-Bone said:

    Also note how the author has used his full name including middle name. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. To me, that looks like she is trying to play on the Southern Confederate linkage to make him appear to be even more of a racist slave owner type. Really a fair media type huh?

    Why use the middle name like that and his more formal first name? There were a lot of unhinged people when Barack Hussein Obama was used. They claimed a similar foul. No problem here though as it is a Republican and every possible method to disparage is ok. By any means necessary.

  69. #695987
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm, T-Bone said:

    Wonder how much that little boo-boo cost the taxpayers.

    Not to mention the 168 dead people in Oklahoma City.

    Oh yeah, and Bill Clinton was just appointed to the Board of the OKC Bombing Museum. As Monica said, If you can’t lick em, join em.

  70. #695994
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Lester Maddox was a Democrat.

    CIE, I believe we have discussed ad nauseum the large scale defection of southern racists from the Democratic Party to the GOP following the Civil Rights Act. If you want to try and rebut the unassailable assertion that the GOP is the modern home of white southern racists, please cite a Democrat in the last, say, 30 years who did something as white-supremacist-friendly as boycotting Nelson Mandela, stating that we’d be better off if Strom had won the presidency, calling our president “boy,” calling someone a “macaca,” or saying that “Government reached into my life and grabbed me and shook me at the age of fifteen. I remember how blatant it was that government just thought that they knew better, that government just thought they knew better what to do in my school.”

  71. #696004
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:35 pm, vickisoup said:

    So, RSS: What about Robert Byrd? Just because someone is white and from the south doesn’t mean they’re racist. But perhaps we can agree that being a member of the Ku Klux Klan dispels any question of how the individual leans in matters of diversity, hmmm?

  72. #696007
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    What about Robert Byrd?

    You take my list of Republicans (oh I forgot David Duke) who have made outrageously bigoted remarks in the last 20 years, and you throw out Robert Byrd? A man who decades ago recanted his past segregationist views and associations? You must be able to do better than that, right?

  73. #696022
    On May 6th, 2009 at 5:56 pm, SHoward said:

    RSS, how about the effect of democrap policies? Various forms of social welfare and affirmative action actually lead to a dependence minorities have for democraps to keep the government programs going.

    If that isn’t racist, nothing is. Actions speak much more loudly than words.

    Especially your words.

  74. #696026
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:02 pm, mchristian said:

    Various forms of social welfare and affirmative action actually lead to a dependence

    But, they mean well. We’re just haters.

  75. #696042
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pm, cicerokid said:

    “He conducts himself with the utmost civility in hearings and on the Senate floor…”

    Then it’s time to deep six that action and get himself a gutta percha cane.

  76. #696045
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm, Major O said:

    Two words for the Leftist hacks on this thread:

    Robert Byrd.

    Until you deal with THAT RACIST BIGOT, you have zero moral credibility to weigh in here.

  77. #696049
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm, DBNinKY said:

    CIE, I believe we have discussed ad nauseum the large scale defection of southern racists from the Democratic Party to the GOP following the Civil Rights Act.

    Don’t you ever get tired of pushing that “Southern Strategy” fairytale?

    Have you never considered that it may be based more on fiction than fact? That, in actuality, it’s little more than a myth, proponed by Democrats as an attempt to discredit Republicans and console themselves for having alienated southern voters?

    To begin with, there’s no empirical evidence to determine or even suggest it was effective as a strategy as there are still many elected Democrats throughout the South.

    It is also insulting as a concept, for at its heart is the premise that Southerners are either gullible or too thick to vote for themselves; as a Southerner yourself, you know this is not true.

    Likewise, it is a racist theory, as it assumes Southerners would readily vote in bloc to hold back African Americans; as you well know, there are very successful African Americans in all branches of elected office and walks of life, across the South.

  78. #696050
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:46 pm, SHoward said:

    Two words for the Leftist hacks on this thread:

    Robert Byrd.

    Until you deal with THAT RACIST BIGOT, you have zero moral credibility to weigh in here.

    Ahh, but Major O, we have soooo many repubs that sound racist that we must be dealt with. It matters not that they have the ol KKK member among them.

    Don’t you see, they value words. We value actions. Until they value action as we do, all that will matter to them is hot air.

  79. #696051
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:48 pm, SHoward said:

    Abraham Lincoln was of course, a Republican.

    I know, I know, you’ve heard that before. Since we conservatives are the ones that keep bringing it up it must therefore not have any credibility today, right?

  80. #696052
    On May 6th, 2009 at 6:49 pm, maisy said:

    Ted Kennedy is an advocate for blacks…can’t say anything about him….no sir!!
    Uh,er,uh, er except that little INCIDENT WHERE HE KILLED A WOMAN!!!

  81. #696064
    On May 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm, maisy said:

    Love Ya Jeff!!!This like trying to smear Mother Theresa!!!??

    Cool facts about Jeff Sessions
    http://minx.cc/?post=229365

  82. #696067
    On May 6th, 2009 at 7:11 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Don’t you ever get tired of pushing that “Southern Strategy” fairytale?

    No. Some more facts, if you’re really in denial:

    The most heavily Republican state in the South, Alabama, voted in 2004 not to amend the state constitution mandating racial segregation.

    David Duke won 55% of whites in the 1991 open primary for the Republican nomination for governor of Louisiana, and would have won that nomination if black Democrats had not come out in droves to oppose him.

    Georgia elected its first Republican Governor since Reconstruction after Democrat Roy Barnes successfully had the Stars and Bars removed from the state flag.

    As far as the “southern strategy” of Republicans appealing reaching out to segregationist southerners, I honestly don’t know a lot about Richard Nixon’s campaigns. 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.

    And really, these are just facts that are out there. If you are from the South and you KNOW the South and real southerners, there’s just no way you can deny that there are a hell of a lot of white racists here, and they don’t vote Democrat, at least in national elections.

  83. #696079
    On May 6th, 2009 at 7:48 pm, undresiege said:

    This is uncontestable: Sen. Sessions is a man of integrity.

    Anything is contestable in regards to whether or not someone has integrity. A man’s integrity is a matter of opinion.

    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.

    Good points there. Very good points.

    All on cue, the liberal bloggers are recycling old quotes out of context to smear Sen. Sessions as a racist.

    MM you purposefully left out any links to the quotes, and you also obviously failed to clarify any issues with “context”. You’re the queen of links, so I know you know how to do it. You don’t rebut or clarify, because you can’t “put lipstick on a pig”. Ooooh, no I diin’t.

    FYI, eff Robert Byrd too.

  84. #696094
    On May 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pm, T-Bone said:

    Oh, I see. Sessions is a racist. You people are really sick. Apparently, you place no value on what a racist really is. You just throw the term around whenever it suits your purpose.

    That casualness belittles true racism to where it has no meaning at all. Anyone from the South is racist so who really cares anymore. You have no idea what you are talking about. I really pity you. You are going to have real trouble in life with that baggage you carry. So sad.

  85. #696098
    On May 6th, 2009 at 8:44 pm, SHoward said:

    And really, these are just facts that are out there. If you are from the South and you KNOW the South and real southerners, there’s just no way you can deny that there are a hell of a lot of white racists here, and they don’t vote Democrat, at least in national elections.

    Just what part of the south are you from, dillhole? I know plenty of white racists that vote pure democrap in FLA. Of course they’re only racist by your definition, which means they said a bad word once.

    Georgia elected its first Republican Governor since Reconstruction after Democrat Roy Barnes successfully had the Stars and Bars removed from the state flag.

    The stars and bars is a point of heritage, idiot, not racism. I grew up with black guys that wore the rebel flag on tehir shirts or on their trucks. They didn’t seem to mind, as they were from the south.

    Again, actions speak louder than words. When your precious democraps stop enabling dependance on government for minorities, I’ll give your arguements more credit.

  86. #696115
    On May 6th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    I know plenty of white racists that vote pure democrap in FLA. Of course they’re only racist by your definition, which means they said a bad word once.

    B*tch please, Florida ain’t the South. Florida is just what came out when the South took a dump.

  87. #696119
    On May 6th, 2009 at 10:21 pm, Speakup said:

    When the last GOP Pres. went to appoint Supreme court justices the base demanded strict constructionist Constitutional scholars, the gender, ethnicity all were secondary, now with a liberal Pres. the bar keeps dropping lower and lower.

    Progressive identity politics and emotional choices for a SCOTUS pick, and no one is even thinking about a critical Constitutionalist much less expecting or even much less than that, demanding one.

    A stark difference in party and base intent and the choice of an obvious activist jurist versus a jurist who knows and defends our highest law?

    That’s not just scary, its an outrage or should be.

  88. #696126
    On May 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    If you are not called a racist by the Loons of the Left you are not doing enough. Homophobe, Islamophobe , Gun Nut, Right Wind Extremist, Bible Thumper–the Progressive/Socialist throws those terms around so much they no longer have meaning.Identity Politics IS racism but the Left lies about that too.

    undresiege: Integrity is beyond the comprehension of the Left so do not try--A man’s integrity is a matter of opinion? That statement shows a lack of Integrity .

  89. #696133
    On May 6th, 2009 at 10:47 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Progressive identity politics and emotional choices for a SCOTUS pick, and no one is even thinking about a critical Constitutionalist much less expecting or even much less than that, demanding one.

    Hmmm. Didn’t Reagan dig deep down to find a state appellate judge to be the first female justice? And didn’t Bush 41 appoint an inexperienced government bureaucrat to the court because he had no other black conservatives to choose from (OK Clarence had been on the DC Circuit for a year, but that appointment was just as ridiculous, and unheard of for a lawyer of such little stature.)

  90. #696142
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pm, bjc said:

    *Liberals of the RSS ilk are all about diversity, except when it comes to diversity of thought; That’s the bottom line folks, it’s the credo they live by after years of government schooling.

  91. #696149
    On May 6th, 2009 at 11:16 pm, undresiege said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal :

    quoted me in typing:

    A man’s integrity is a matter of opinion?

    Absolutely. Always. One man’s messiah is another’s demon seed. I’ve seen your posts on subjects such as homosexuality and unarmed victims getting what they deserved. You, neanderthal, have absolutely no integrity whatsover. Of course, that’s just MY opinion.

    This is uncontestable: Sen. Sessions is a man of integrity

    Is a naive and childish thing to say. But, I’m still waiting on MM to link to Sessions’ racist statements and how SHE thinks they’re taken out of context. I won’t hold my breath though.

  92. #696191
    On May 7th, 2009 at 12:29 am, SHoward said:

    Take a ride through the Ocala National Forest and say that, Red State Sewer.

  93. #696206
    On May 7th, 2009 at 1:08 am, SHoward said:

    Georgia elected its first Republican Governor since Reconstruction after Democrat Roy Barnes successfully had the Stars and Bars removed from the state flag.

    Lemme see if I getthis straight:

    From 1865 to 1999 Democraps kept teh rebel flag, and along comes one that gets rid of it. Sooooo, around 135 years of democrap racists and finally a ‘decent’ one comes along?

    That’s still assuming (your view) that the rebel flag is a sign of racism instead of part of heritage.

    Are you proud of that 135 years? And don’t you think that perhaps many of your southern democraps might still be racist? Do you really, really believe they all changed overnight? Are you that stupid? (Last question rhetorical)

    *And I’ll give on many parts of my home state that are inhabited by snowbirds. All the time.*

  94. #696209
    On May 7th, 2009 at 1:33 am, SHoward said:

    There is one last thing, RSS.

    Please tell us all why the actions of democraps aren’t racist in creating dependancy in minorities while the mere words of republicans are racist though they have caused little harm.

  95. #696291
    On May 7th, 2009 at 8:58 am, John Deaux said:

    On May 7th, 2009 at 1:33 am, SHoward said:
    There is one last thing, RSS.

    Please tell us all why the actions of democraps aren’t racist in creating dependancy in minorities while the mere alleged (through hearsay) words of republicans are racist though they have caused little harm.

    Don’t forget to add this disclaimer or else they will say you agreed that he said them because you didn’t deny it.

  96. #696318
    On May 7th, 2009 at 9:44 am, Weary Citizen said:

    On May 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, vickisoup said:

    Well said. And very true. I would add, these organizations, for the most part, have outlived their usefulness and exist just to exist (ie line the pockets of the leaders). As a consequence, they must find issues where none exist in order to remain relevant.

  97. #696444
    On May 7th, 2009 at 11:28 am, fighterDC said:

    I have the utmost respect for Sen. Sessions. He is one of the few Senators that actually looks out for the American people.

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