It is official. Following a 58-42 vote in the U.S. Senate, Judge Samuel Alito has been confirmed to be the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. We can thank God for the active involvement of the rank and file who have stayed ever vigilant through this process.
Yesterdays cloture vote to end debate on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court and to allow this confirmation vote today signals the end to the major medias dominance of national affairs and its ability to shape public opinion.
It also marks the end of the political careers of Massachusetts Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry. Of course, they dont know it yet and neither do their blinded-by-hate supporters, but the failure of these extreme left wing Democrats to convince their fellow senators to drink the kool-aid only confirms this conclusion.
From the beginning, this author stated that there would not be a filibuster and that Sam Alito would be confirmed. Sam Alito was examined by the American people. They looked at his excellent credentials, liked his disposition and found him to be a normal guy. His mother told the nation what her son thought about the most controversial issue of our time, and the public concluded that this was good. Judge Alito explained to the Senate his views on a host of issues and deferred as was appropriate on any future subjects that would be likely to come before the court.
Finally, the people saw him as a family guy who likes the Phillies and coaches Little League. What's not to like? 15 years on the bench, prior to that a U.S. attorney, prior to that the Reagan White House, ABA well qualified rating, NLA well qualified rating; all of this resonated well with the American people.
However, the left and the liberal Democrats are not in touch with the common man. They think everything is about protecting a womans right to abortion. And if the country were made up of liberal college professors and lifetime government employees and Hollywood types, they would be right. The Alito nomination has always been about abortion. As stupid as it sounds, Democrats like Kennedy and Kerry, Durbin and Biden, Leahy and the rest are all about abortion. They are in the hip pocket of the abortion lobby, which incidentally, includes the radical homosexual lobby as well. And while it makes no sense politically, the Democratic Party has been on this abortion binge for almost 30 years since 1976. I remember, because it was at the 1976 Democratic Convention in New York City that the convention added a pro-abortion plank to the party platform. I was there in New York City protesting the plank with over 10,000 fellow pro-life intercessors.
Shortly thereafter, I left the Democratic Party and became a Republican because a candidate for president in 1976 publicly supported the right to life, explained how he had made a mistake when he was governor of California and wanted to correct the problem. Ronald Reagan had no problem understanding the humanity of the unborn. And while he would make two major errors in 1) nominating Sandra Day OConnor, and 2) failing to have his staff push the pro-life agenda in 1981. But that was then and this is now.
For now we can celebrate this return to sanity. Now I am not saying that the White House will want to have an open debate on Roe. That would be very interesting and I would welcome an honest discussion of the subject. But the folks in Washington still fear the press. Still, we see the changing tide. Momentum, as I said in other comments, is on our side. For we are on the side of life; and that is the only place to be.
