By Dave Andrusko
At about 9:08 last night, when pro-life President Donald Trump formally introduced Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his choice to be Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s successor, I couldn’t help but think “what if?” That is, what if Hillary Clinton had secured what she clearly felt was her due—the Presidency?
For one thing, ABC’s Nightline would not have tweeted out 90 minutes before President Trump’s announcement that Terry Moran would be“reporting on the controversial Supreme Court Justice pick and the possible implications for the country.” It wasn’t that Nightline was psychic. It was just that there is no one that President Trump could possibly have nominated who would not have been “controversial.”
Of course Moran/Nightline were just dutifully following the pro-abortion line.
Pro-life Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) put it this way yesterday:
“[O]ur Democratic colleagues still haven’t tired of crying wolf whenever a Republican president nominates anyone to the Supreme Court. We’ve seen the same movie time after time – after time…. So these far-left groups have been at these same scare tactics for more than forty years…. Decade after decade. Nominee after nominee. The far left’s script hardly changes at all.”
For another, no nominee selected by a “President” Hillary Clinton would be described as Kavanaugh was by Douglas Johnson, senior policy adviser for National Right to Life, speaking to National Review Online: “Judge Kavanaugh’s record, viewed as a whole, indicates a willingness to enforce the rights truly based on the text and history of the Constitution, while otherwise leaving policymaking in the hands of elected legislators. Kavanaugh is exceptionally well qualified to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court — and like Neil Gorsuch, he will be subjected to a smear campaign by those on the Left who are addicted to the imposition of social policy by judicial decree.”
A video released by Campus Reform confirmed what Majority Leader McConnell and Mr. Johnson predicted. It was highly amusing in one sense and prophetic in another.
Prior to Kavanaugh’s nomination, Cabot Phillips, Media Director for Campus Reform, went to New York University “to ask students what they thought about who Trump had chosen to replace Justice Kennedy. Despite the fact that Trump’s decision was still days away from being finalized, students unanimously condemned Trump’s move, harshly criticizing the president’s nonexistent nominee.”
The students, unencumbered by actually knowing who they were talking about, described the as yet-to-be chosen nominee as “extremist.” Another student chimed in, “I saw the new nominee is like racist, and he’s starting a new wave of something very negative, and I’m really scared about the future and what choices he will make.”
And, as they say, so it begins. We’re posting several other stories about the nomination. Please read them and pass them along using social media.