Little insights into their judgments
What the presidential candidates say and how they campaign tell us how they see things.
Sometimes, it doesn’t exactly square with what they’ve said before.
Senator John McCain, as recently reported and discussed here and on The Corner, has said privately that he would not appoint jurists like Justice Samuel Alito, because he “wears his conservatism on his sleeve.”
To refresh recollections: many of Justice Alito’s former law clerks, fellow Article III judges, and others — a good number of whom were liberal Democrats — testified during his Senate confirmation to the exact opposite proposition: that Justice Alito did not wear any political ideology or convictions “on his sleeve.”
They’ve got the goods there, insights of those who know and have no reason to embellish. So, what does that say about McCain, conservatism, and potential nominations he would raise for the Supreme Court?
And then there’s the current campaign commercial Sen. Hillary Clinton is running that’s getting attention because it’s so alarming. It shows a guy in freefall (which is what the spot is called) hurtling to earth, with a voiceover scaring listeners into thinking that’s them….on health care, the economy, unemployment, life in general right now, plunging downward to eventual crash.
She what does this say about Clinton’s idea of motivation?