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Backers of Sotomayor: “Let’s Get the Firefighter!”

By: hogan (Diary)  |  July 11th, 2009 at 02:08 AM  | 

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In preparation for the upcoming Senate confirmation debate, supporters of Judge Sonia Sotomayor are stooping to a new low… According to McClatchy Newspapers, they are going after the Connecticut firefighter at the center of one of the nominee’s most controversial rulings – the one recently overturned by the United States Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano.

This is not unusual. It is the M-O of liberals… they’re all for the “little guy” as a political poster-child, but they simply don’t bat an eye at running over him if it’s necessary to accomplish their agenda.

Mr. Ricci, whatever his past may reveal, is a private citizen who had his day in court… but not just any court, he had his day in the United States Supreme Court, and he won. And now liberal special interest groups want to go after HIM – personally – simply because Judge Sotomayor wrote a lousy opinion with her colleagues and now is getting repudiated for its foolishness.

Republicans should object strongly to these types of personal attacks… and so should Judge Sotomayor.

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  • bobojake

    Its doesn’ matter whether its, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin or anybody who doesn’t agree with obama perceived foney utopia based on frankie the communitst, billy ayers the terrorist or reve wright the I hate america radical. If it don’t fall in obama way then he sends his thugs. it time to stop this illegal welfare. We have elbows also. See you Sept 12,2009 in Washington DC for the Anti-Tax Rally specially made especially for the obama clan, reid and Peloski.

  • NickinOz

    My understanding is that he is going to provide testimony at the confirmation hearings. He will undoubtedly be cross examined on that testimony. I don’t really see what the issue is here… his testimony is being pre-emptively cross examined in the blogosphere… big deal.

    • Martin Knight

      … you know, the usual sort of stuff that comes out of the Left blogosphere and makes it into mainstream news when the Left decides to “investigate” an individual that poses a possible threat to their agenda.

      BTW, I thought the word in vogue is “vet” … previously it was “Bork”. When did it become “pre-emptively cross examine“?

      So what have you guys come up with on Ricci. I’m pretty certain you already take the fact that he filed this case as proof positive that he’s a racist (of course) …

      But what else?

      He kills puppies for fun? His last kid is actually his daughter’s child? He served in the military? Have you got your hands on his credit report yet? Child support payment records? Divorce records? His kids’ grades and disciplinary records? Have you lined up someone to accuse him of sexual assault?

    • NickinOz

      “So what have you guys come up with on Ricci.”

      Please explain – I am not sure what you mean by ‘you guys’ in this sentence…

      • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

        Mostly because you sound like one. Personally, I can see how this can be you just not really checked out on how the US thinks, but either way I’m going to have to ask you to be a little more thoughtful in your posts. Americans react badly to foreign meddling in our political affairs, particularly when it’s not done very well.

        No, we do not reciprocate in such matters. Horrifically unfair of us, isn’t it?

  • Martin Knight

    What makes anyone think they’d spare a second on Ricci?

    • IJB

      If the GOP fails on this one, I’m done with them.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        depending on the dynamic of whether the public gets exorcised during the hearings when the statements get more publicity. They are simply toxic and even cause many liberals to be repelled. Add to that the Ricci case, and then add lib groups doing personal attacks on Ricci himself….

        The poll numbers already indicate that Soto’s statements are well known, plus, we have Sessions and not Hatch this time.

        I am certain that most of the GOP senators will vote against her, but it is just possible that her hearings will produce a firestorm…

        stay tuned

        • David123

          And follow up with a question on what fundamental truth makes the majority opinion in Plessy v Ferguson either correct or incorrect.

        • nessa

          nt

      • http://www.phxgonline.com phxg

        It’s high time the GOP and every person within it with even an ounce of authority start to voice a public opinion on these disgusting tactics the dems use.

        Enough media chatter from Senators down to local councilmen will make a difference in this fight. But the GOP better get this right because I’m not spending a dime on anyone incumbent if they don’t.

  • smagar

    …by the Ivy League/Berkeley/Hollywood* crowd that PFAW represents.

    If I were Chris Dodd, I wouldn’t be too thrilled at the sight of a sympathetic constituent of mine being pilloried by the kinds of folks that have made MoveOn.org, Daily Kos and Huffington Post the nasty forces in public life that they are. If I were Rob Simmons, I’d be overjoyed.

    Sounds as if Chris Dodd, David Axelrod and Rahm Emmanuel might have to get their folks in line.

    • smagar
  • Swamp_Yankee

    Okay that’sa little extreme, but lets not forget that Ricci had a severe learning disability. It prevented him from obtaining professional jobs and only aced the test by having the study materials read to him. He spent thousands of his own money to get someone to help him pass the test despite his earning disability.

    So, they are picking on a disabled person.

    And yes, Simmons must be overjoyed. T

    • Swamp_Yankee

      http://www.disabled-world.com/editorials/frank-ricci-dyslexia.php

  • Big Apple Infidel

    People for the American Way is apparently spearheading this completely un-American campaign to destroy the reputation of an American citizen who had the temerity to demand the restoration of his violated constitutional civil liberties.

  • dsmurf

    The Republican judiciary committee lead Senator, needs to tell the Dems to get someone who hasn’t been overruled 60% of the time. PERIOD. Watch the fur fly,

    Are the Dems going to demand we acquiesce to any wise Latina or someone qualified?
    About time we demand someone who is qualified regardless of the ABA Obamaite crony endorsements.

  • Outrider

    Mr. Ricci

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

      Also, I’m not sure what the outcome was. Did Miranda get tried again? And if he got a “get out of jail card as a result” did his victim every get her life back together?

      • Outrider

        That conviction was not appealed, so there is no record of what evidence the state offered. I do not know the sentence; but, he was already in prison for robbery when the Supreme Court handed down the famous decision. If memory serves, he was paroled and subsequently stabbed to death in a bar fight. I do not remember if that crime was ever solved. Miranda was a career criminal and it is unlikely the stabbing had anything to do with the rape. I do not know the dates; but it all happened before 1980. All the trial records are long destroyed and the rape victim

        • mbecker908

          a bar. A suspect was arrested, given his “Miranda rights” and he asked for an attorney and never said a word. He was never charged and the crime was never solved.

          • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth
        • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

          My key concern was whether Miranda was retried and convicted without the confession so that his victim wouldn’t have to face the injustice of his being acquitted on a novel technicality.

  • Rich Tandler

    Just because the man sought to have his rights under the Constitution preserved and happened to run across the wrong judge along the way to the Supreme Court, he will go under the media microscope. His taxes, his past jobs, every parking ticket will be fair game.

    The Huff Po’s and Kos’ of the world will do what they’re going to do. But any “news” organization that participates in any smear of Ricci should be boycotted and any Senator that does the same should be targeted.

    Sotomayor and Obama both should let it be known that Ricci is off limits. Yeah, I know, dream on.

  • Robert A. Hahn

    The fact that McClatchey wrote their article exposing the call that went out to “get Ricci,” instead of actually going after Ricci, tells us that even liberals are disgusted by such action.

    No one will accuse McClatchey of being a mouthpiece for the right. I would have expected them to be among the first with a “Ricci had DUI in 1989″ story. Instead they hung People for the American Way out to dry. Good on them.