Video: Palin on Supreme Court decisions she disagrees with
posted at 7:35 pm on October 1, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A bad answer not because it’s so awkward but because she lacks the knack for spinning tough questions to her advantage in a way politicians ought to be able to. E.g., “Any decision is a bad decision, Katie, where the Court arrogates to itself the right to decide difficult questions which, in a democracy, should be left to the public.” An answer like that would have gone a long way towards countering Biden’s dopey point about the virtue of Roe v. Wade lying in its expression of consensus. Hey, Joe? Consensus is best determined at the ballot box. If Biden disagrees with that, I encourage him to let the Supreme Court decide who should be the next president.
It sounds from WaPo at this point like Palin’s going to try to bait Biden into a fatal gaffe tomorrow night to cover any missteps she might commit. Not a bad idea in light of the new CBS poll: “Women’s perception of Palin has become increasingly negative. On Sept. 8th, Palin had a 47 percent favorable rating among women and a 19 percent unfavorable; now her favorable rating among the group is down to 30 percent, while her unfavorable has risen to 34 percent.” Exit question: She’s on record as opposing the Supreme Court’s ruling on punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez case. Why didn’t she just mention that?
Update: Karl e-mails, “Biden’s a senior member of the Judiciary Committee. Try asking him about the Alaskan pipeline and see how he does.”
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Jaibones on October 2, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Well, that’s obviously hyperbole, but so is my suggestion that they are never unanimous.
My point is that there are judges on the Supreme Court who are legitimate historical experts on the court, the law, and the constitution, and they regularly end up on opposite sides of fundamental issues of law.
This is not to mention the frequency with which the lesser members of the court just make up/made up weird shit, like Blackmun, Stevens, and Ginsburg. Detailed knowledge of Brown or Kelo will not make the term of the next Vice President more significant.
And we already know that Obama is one of the worst judges of judicial talent in our entire political world. This knowledge alone makes it absolutely mandatory that he not be elected. He will hurt this country for decades.
As for Palin, I ask you my first question again: quick, what’s the cost of a therm of natural gas, split out for raw material and delivery cost? This will have a lot more to do with me than Plessy will.
Jaibones on October 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM
You are right that I never supported Palin. But I don’t support McCain, and unless he picked someone like Hillary or Biden, it’s likely that I would have never supported his VP candidate.
My point about the questions is this. There are a few questions so far that take the same shape, like:
Name a regulation proposal by McCain
Name a SCOTUS case you disagree with
Name a magazine you read
Where she is clearly stumped. Let’s say the MSM adds 5 more questions to the list that stump her. The left wing (and even some of the right wing) blogosphere will jump on these (including me I’m sure), but in reality, we already can predict a lot of these answers. There is little value in these questions.
So next time they ask ‘name 3 countries that border Iraq’ and she says ‘It’s very important that we stabilize this region because Iraq has many neighbors’, people will get all pumped up but I don’t think we will be learning anything new, it will be more yet another instance of the same pattern.
As for liking the answer, I’m not sure what I would have liked her to say with the SCOTUS question. I guess at a minimum I would expect a higher quality of ‘winging it’.
mycowardice on October 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM
What a strange ramble that is. Let’s make this easier for you:
Name a Supreme Court case on which you and Obama agree. Just one. Assuming that you can’t figure out what Obama agrees with, since it changes every week, name a SCOTUS judge with whom you most often agree.
Jaibones on October 2, 2008 at 7:43 PM
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