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Converting the American Liberal
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What I’m about to suggest is far fetched. I don’t think it would ever happen and it would probably be a mistake if it ever were to happen, but the political ramifications to this idea are astounding.
I suggest that if President Bush wanted to provide the ultimate olive branch to the Democratic party that he should nominate Bill Clinton to a Federal Court of Appeals bench.
Now before I lose all of my conservative friends, consider what this would mean. By tradation, federal judges stay out of politics. When was the last time you saw Sandra Day-O’Connor at a political campaign rally? A confirmed Justice Clinton would then, at least by tradition, be barred from, say, assisting Hillary out with a run for President in 2008 or beyond.
And let’s face it, the President could smooth a lot of things over with American liberals by giving such a plum to their favorite former President.
There’s even precedent for such a move. In 1908, William Howard Taft was elected President of the United States and served for one term. In 1921, he was confirmed as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Taft had all sorts of qualifications (including an appellate judgeship prior to his becoming President) that Clinton does not yet have, but getting him set up on a Federal Court of Appeals would start that process so some possible future Democratic president could then elevate him to the US Supreme Court.
Just something to think about is all.
MickC @ November 8, 2004
Sounds a little impossible that you can try to change a liberals mind they think their right all the time and they are almost always wrong i mean they are just asking for it right in the kisser
That would be great, excepting that Clinton was a) disbarred (has that passed yet?) and; b) you undermine your own point by using Taft, who was a judge before becoming President, the most political of jobs…