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Dickie Hemric
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Also, JFK had to give an entire speech on the fact that he wouldn’t be taking orders from the Pope if elected President because of attacks by the GOP.
It's already started. When George Stephanopoulos this morning mentioned a new ABC poll that showed a large majority of voters preferred to wait until after the election to fill the Supreme Court seat, the GOP operative on his roundtable prattled on about how this nomination fight will help Republican Senate candidates because of all the anti-Catholic bigotry already being expressed by LibDems. When George pointed out that neither Biden nor any Democratic Senator had said anything like that, she said well yes, but it's out there. I'm sure they'll gin up that any criticism of Barrett's ideas or previous decisions is an attack on "Americans of Faith." It's what they do.
Also, JFK had to give an entire speech on the fact that he wouldn’t be taking orders from the Pope if elected President because of attacks by the GOP.
Accusing their Democratic opponents of using coded language to stir up prejudice among the electorate, Republicans argued Monday that references to Amy Coney Barrett as “Trump’s court pick” carried deeply anti-Catholic undertones. “To attack Judge Barrett’s faith by calling her ‘President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court’ is to engage in a long and shameful tradition of thinly veiled insults aimed at Catholics,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, adding that 19th-century Irish and Italian immigrants to the United States could hardly have been met with an epithet as hateful as “Donald Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” “For Americans who adhere to the teachings of Catholicism, painful memories are conjured up each time someone says a person is ‘almost certain to be confirmed to the highest court in the land by a slim majority of Republicans.’ We have freedom of religion in this country, and to hear Democrats resort to such anti-Catholic dog whistles is frankly disgusting.” At press time, McConnell asserted that his critics on the left wouldn’t have disparaged Barrett’s faith if she were a “filthy Muslim.”
According to Lincoln historian Michael Burlingame, Lincoln told his aides he wanted to delay his Supreme Court confirmation process because he was “waiting to receive expressions of public opinion from the country," though the Post noted, "that didn’t mean he was waiting for ballots so much as the mail."
"The overarching effect of the delay is that it held Lincoln’s broad but shaky coalition of conservative and radical Republicans together," the Post explained. "Congress was in recess until early December, so there would have been no point in naming a man before the election anyway. Lincoln shrewdly used that to his advantage. If he had lost the election, there is no evidence he wouldn’t have filled the spot in the lame-duck session."
The Post concluded, "So Harris is mistaken about Lincoln’s motivations in this regard."
National Review senior writer Dan McLaughin went even further, accusing Harris of "dishonesty" with her Lincoln anecdote.
"Lincoln, of course, said no such thing," McLaughlin refuted the Democrat Wednesday night. "He sent no nominee to the Senate in October 1864 because the Senate was out of session until December."
He added, "Kamala Harris is simply inventing history."
Looking forward to ACB's judgement being questioned with photos of her and her family unmasked in the White House during the confirmation hearings - but sadly the Dem Senators are too big of cowards to truly take her on