Graham, Gingrich, Ryan, and Carson all come out against Trumps racist attack of Judge

[BmorePat87]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/07/politics/lindsey-graham-donald-trump/index.html

In the wake of Trump's intensified racist attacks against a judge for his Mexican heritage, Graham is calling on Republicans to un-endorse Trump and show that their love of the United States trumps their hatred of Clinton.

Paul Ryan called Trump's statements the definition of racist. Gringrich and Carson came out and made comments critical of Trump's attack. Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord has come in defense of Trump with an interesting attack: you're racist if you call Trump racist. He argues that anyone calling out Trump is promoting identity politics over individualism and is racist. When he said this on Anderson Cooper, Cooper questioned his logic and reminded him that Trump was the first to comment on this man's identity when he misidentified him as Mexican, not American.

Lord then tried to spin Trump's attacks as being a political commentary on identity politics, something Cooper laughed at.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/06/trump-supporter-jeffery-lord-smeared-judge

[Benton]

The GOP realizes Hillary Clinton is going to be not only the first woman president, but the greatest Republican president since Reagan. Of course they want her to beat Trump.

[GMDino]

Don't worry...old Pat got his back.

http://buchanan.org/blog/donald-la-raza-judge-125323

Quote:Before the lynching of The Donald proceeds, what exactly was it he said about that Hispanic judge?


Stated succinctly, Donald Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a class-action suit against Trump University, is sticking it to him. And the judge’s bias is likely rooted in the fact that he is of Mexican descent.

Can there be any defense of a statement so horrific?

Just this. First, Trump has a perfect right to be angry about the judge’s rulings and to question his motives. Second, there are grounds for believing Trump is right.

On May 27, Curiel, at the request of The Washington Post, made public plaintiff accusations against Trump University — that the whole thing was a scam. The Post, which Bob Woodward tells us has 20 reporters digging for dirt in Trump’s past, had a field day.

And who is Curiel?

An appointee of President Obama, he has for years been associated with the La Raza Lawyers Association of San Diego, which supports pro-illegal immigrant organizations.

Set aside the folly of letting Clinton surrogates like the Post distract him from the message he should be delivering, what did Trump do to be smeared by a bipartisan media mob as a “racist”?

He attacked the independence of the judiciary, we are told.

But Presidents Jefferson and Jackson attacked the Supreme Court, and FDR, fed up with New Deal programs being struck down, tried to “pack the court” by raising the number of justices to 15 if necessary.

Abraham Lincoln leveled “that eminent tribunal” in his first inaugural, and once considered arresting Chief Justice Roger Taney.

The conservative movement was propelled by attacks on the Warren Court. In the ’50s and ’60s, “Impeach Earl Warren!” was plastered on billboards and bumper stickers all across God’s country.

The judiciary is independent, but that does not mean that federal judges are exempt from the same robust criticism as presidents or members of Congress.

Obama himself attacked the Citizens United decision in a State of the Union address, with the justices sitting right in front of him.

But Trump’s real hanging offense was that he brought up the judge’s ancestry, as the son of Mexican immigrants, implying that he was something of a judicial version of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.

Apparently, it is now not only politically incorrect, but, in Newt Gingrich’s term, “inexcusable,” to bring up the religious, racial or ethnic background of a judge, or suggest this might influence his actions on the bench.

But these things matter.

Does Newt think that when LBJ appointed Thurgood Marshall, ex-head of the NAACP, to the Supreme Court, he did not think Marshall would bring his unique experience as a black man and civil rights leader to the bench?
Surely, that was among the reasons Marshall was appointed.

When Obama named Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, a woman of Puerto Rican descent who went through college on affirmative action scholarships, did Obama think this would not influence her decision when it came to whether or not to abolish affirmative action?

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Sotomayor said in a speech at Berkeley law school and in other forums.

Translation: Ethnicity matters, and my Latina background helps guide my decisions.

All of us are products of our family, faith, race and ethnic group. And the suggestion in these attacks on Trump that judges and justices always rise about such irrelevant considerations, and decide solely on the merits, is naive nonsense.

There are reasons why defense lawyers seek “changes of venue” and avoid the courtrooms of “hanging judges.”

When Obama reflexively called Sgt. Crowley “stupid” after Crowley’s 2009 encounter with that black professor at Harvard, and said of Trayvon Martin, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” was he not speaking as an African-American, as well as a president?

Pressed by John Dickerson on CBS, Trump said it’s “possible” a Muslim judge might be biased against him as well.
Another “inexcusable” outrage.

But does anyone think that if Obama appointed a Muslim to the Supreme Court, the LGBT community would not be demanding of all Democratic Senators that they receive assurances that the Muslim judge’s religious views on homosexuality would never affect his court decisions, before they voted to put him on the bench?

When Richard Nixon appointed Judge Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court, it was partly because he was a distinguished jurist of South Carolina ancestry. And the Democrats who tore Haynsworth to pieces did so because they feared he would not repudiate his Southern heritage and any and all ideas and beliefs associated with it.

To many liberals, all white Southern males are citizens under eternal suspicion of being racists. The most depressing thing about this episode is to see Republicans rushing to stomp on Trump, to show the left how well they have mastered their liberal catechism.

Ignoring, of course, that EVERYONE who goes against Drumpf is accused of being biased against him. But accepting as fact that a man of Mexican heritage would be biased while a man of European heritage would not.

[*bfine32*]

It would have been so much cooler if the title had stopped at "out".

As to the OP: We're faq'd either way. Someone say us.

[fredtoast]

So does Trump admit that white judges would be biased against Mexicans and Muslims?

[NATI BENGALS]

Honestly Trump might have a point in my opinion if the case had anything to do with immigration or race relations in some way. But it doesnt. It has to do with him being a crooked rich prick stealing money from ordinary middle class citizens. Race has nothing to do with it.

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(06-07-2016, 01:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It would have been so much cooler if the title had stopped at "out".

As to the OP: We're faq'd either way. Someone say us.

Agree. One way its like chopping off a pinky finger. The other way its like hacking off both arms with a butter knife. Technically faqd both ways. But the orange, racist, narcissistic, "billionaire", bigot fully understands what it means to be a rich dick, and he has no problem shipping jobs over seas, getting political favors for cash, ripping off the middle class, or letting chinese buy their way in. I dont see this greedy bag of shit changing his ways.

When faced with a tough decision with two shitty outcomes. It comes down to the lesser of two evils. And the one who is a little less qualified than kim kardashian (she is better with finances and not racist) to be president sure has a lot of downside.