Ed Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.
Ed Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.
On “The Situation Room” this afternoon, former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie said that “it would be wrong” if President Obama looks at only women for potential Supreme Court nominees because he should be looking for “the most qualified candidates.” He explained that though Bush thought about nominating a woman to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he just couldn’t find one with the requisite “temperament and intellect”:
BLITZER: You remember, your President — President Bush — he did find a woman, Harriet Miers, to be his nominee, and that didn’t exactly work out. Did he get gun shy after that?
GILLESPIE: He did not get gun shy after that, but I think that in the next round of the selection process, the person who emerged as clearly most qualified — really head and shoulders above others –was Samuel Alito, and there wasn’t a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.
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GILLESPIE: He did get gun shy after that, because the right wing crazies went nuts in the next round of the selection process, the person who emerged as clearly most qualified — really head and shoulders above others –was Samuel Alito,because the right wing crazies went nuts, and there wasn’t a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.
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Ed Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.
You’re right , Ed ; women are way better than someone like Alito………
May 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pmEd Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.
Which explains why he chose Harriet first…?
May 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pmLet’s nominate Palin! *wink* Betcha!
May 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pmno skanks could best alito.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:54 pmGillespie – you had to go and open your mouth and now people REALLY know how stupid you are – no more guessing.
There are dozens of qualified candidates and several of them are women.
What is it about being a white male that makes one a better justice Gillespie? Not sure? I’ll tell you … NOTHING.
Obama will likely be replaceing 3-4 justices. In my opinion – they should ALL be women. Women outnumber men in this country and women voters outnumber men voters.
To you people it’s all about being a white christian male.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pm*
Good Grief, they are dissolving into babbling idiots before our very eyes.
May 6th, 2009 at 6:58 pmGillespie: There wasn’t a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.
But if PALIN was an attorney, you betcha they would have no qualms with putting her in the position [not that position, but SCOTUS]. . . now if they are referring to Palin, their statement would be on the money!
May 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pmWas Harriet Miers just thrown under the bus by Gillespie?
May 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pmGillespie: “there wasn’t a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.”
And we wonder why women think of men as sexist, ignorant pigs?
May 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pmBoth Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are better qualified than Sam the Sham Alito…
May 6th, 2009 at 7:02 pmHow gracious of Gillespie not to knock Bush for nominating a totaly unqualified person in Meiers and to note the incomparable second choice of Alito.
Should Obama’s first pick not make it through, will Gillespie be so gracious?
One by one, the repugs make fools of themselves on a daily basis – contradictions, bigotry, insincerity, hypocrisy, stubbornness, greed and selfishness — all clearly on display.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:02 pmwhoa tritty tritty tritty. stop right there. i’ve read the most outlandish arguments from feminists as to why women should be ahead of men at all times – namely pay – because they are “biologically superior”, “more frequent shoppers”, they “choose the family car”. according to feminists, they should automatically have more credibility in our vast, wide market place because they “take more AP classes in high school than men.” we’re talking about the judiciary here, not your emotional chip-on-shoulder playpen.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:03 pmIt’s all about power. Gillespie and his cronies are very afraid to let go of it.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI wonder what they’re afraid of.
i believe it’s possible that obama will nominate a justice more conservative than souter. he does a good job listening to his critics.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:06 pmGillespie: “there wasn’t a woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.”
Does Ed know how to piss off women or what? Gee I can’t remember, is he the one that is married or not married? Who would have that slimmy POS?
May 6th, 2009 at 7:12 pmObama has to be laughing his head off at the Repubs sweating & scrambling to discredit his SCOTUS nominee that doesn’t exist yet.
What a bunch of clowns
May 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pmhttp://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/05/republican-clown-col.html
Yeah – most women have compassion and empathy for strip search victims.
Strip Search Sammy Alito – not so much.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:31 pmrobbez_92107 Says:
Yeah – most women have compassion and empathy.
Strip Search Sammy Alito – not so much.
Fixed it for you.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pmHow dare Gillespie say “Bush” and “intellect” in the same sentence. That alone wrecks all credibility.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pmAnother Republican recognizing the importance of the female vote! That party is filled with ignorant neanderthal’s. Good luck winning elections with sexism, racism, torture and war as and the platform!
May 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pmI don’t like the implication that a non-white judge couldn’t possibly be as smart as or as qualified as a white male. If Obama chooses a woman who is not white, it’ll be said that Obama only picked her because she was a Latina or an African-American. Some white men have what I call “entitlement syndrome.” They think that just because they’re white they’re entitled to the BEST of everything first before anyone else. They’ll be damned if anyone else should get ahead and succeed before they do.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:58 pmAnother lying 20%er apologizing for the failures of the GOP.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pmI guess that explains the Shrub nominating his cleaning lady before Alito.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:03 pmMaybe Obama will pick a socialist, conservative, gay-Muslim liberal of Asian-Venezuelan descent to sit on the bench? Sounds like a well rounded candidate for the bench? LOL
According to Gillespie the “chauvinist” there are no intelligent women who has the temperament to serve on the US Supreme Court.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:07 pmWell now we are to believe Miers wasn’t up to the job as Alito is hiding his sexuality. Somethings not right about him as I see a Larry Craig. Alito is still sending out thank you notes for the job. Roberts is cool and his secrets came out quick. His summer vacation with no family member but a young lady who stayed out of sight and even as he was rushed to the hospital no wife showed up. Every event Roberts attends is without the wife. One might ask is there really a marriage or was this staged. Justice Thomas is clearly insane as he often talks about his conversations with dead people. No wonder Justice Souter stay away from other Justices. My choice for Justice Souter’s replacement is Carol Lam. She has everything Obama is looking for in a candidate and more.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pmRuth Ginsburg thinks a woman should be appointed. I doubt that she thinks there aren’t women qualified to be Supreme Court justices in this country.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:30 pm“Ed Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.”
He’s right!!! But thankfully there were no women that were scumbags like this as$hole.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:43 pmI read this story earlier today and had to walk away… they MUST have been looking for a woman who thought like the Neocon rightwing man,they couldn’t find a female Borg nominee ..nahhh they could have nominated Ann Coulter,she and her adams apple would have been just the ticket! *smacks forehead on keyboard*
May 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pmOh, Lunaluz,
May 6th, 2009 at 9:08 pmYou beat me to it! I was just about to question why Gillespie didn’t think Ann Coulter was of a similar temperament to Alito.
Lora..
May 6th, 2009 at 9:17 pmShe would have been the perfect, for what they were looking for..lol GMTA *snap*
What about Phyllis Schlafly?
May 6th, 2009 at 9:31 pmPete,
May 6th, 2009 at 9:52 pmYou’re absolutely right! Phyllis Schafly also would have been a “perfect” reichwing justice, too, and she has even more seniority than Ann-thrax.
So it seems he’s also saying there wasn’t another man comparable….
May 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pmWhen Gillespie says “intellect,” he does not mean what you and I would think he means. He means “ideology.” They couldn’t find the right woman with the same ideology as Alito.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:55 pm“hormiga brava chavez Says:
I don’t like the implication that a non-white judge couldn’t possibly be as smart as or as qualified as a white male. If Obama chooses a woman who is not white, it’ll be said that Obama only picked her because she was a Latina or an African-American. Some white men have what I call “entitlement syndrome.” They think that just because they’re white they’re entitled to the BEST of everything first before anyone else. They’ll be damned if anyone else should get ahead and succeed before they do.”
Where was it implied that a non-white judge couldn’t possibly be as smart? I think maybe you like to jump on the racist bandwagon too easily… which makes me think you might also have a tinge of racism in you (a white person says something like what was said, and somehow you draw from it that they’re racist… just because of their race?)
May 6th, 2009 at 9:57 pmNo Smart and Friendly Republican women, Gillespie?
Explains a lot…
May 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pmI nominate Marcy Wheeler.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pmAmazingly stupid remarks…even for a Republican.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:36 pmThe fact is that women..especially middle age women, are superior to men in every way and especially superior in wisdom. It is biological. Thruout human history, enlightened cultures have honored wise women. As men decline in middle age, women grow in intellect and insight. Women are more capable and more astute. Women’s brains work on all cylanders, and that is especially true past child baring age.
Of course, there are stupid people of all sexes and exception makes the rule, but women work better together than men. They cooperate and not compete. Councils of wise women had ultimate say in the most successful bands of American Indians.
It is a wonderment to me that there are still people who believe that women are not qualified…for any job whatsoever.
The only thing that men do better than women, is peeing standing up….and Im sure there are even some exceptions to that rule. :-)
whoa tritty tritty tritty. stop right there. i’ve read the most outlandish arguments from feminists as to why women should be ahead of men at all times – namely pay – because they are “biologically superior”, “more frequent shoppers”, they “choose the family car”. according to feminists, they should automatically have more credibility in our vast, wide market place because they “take more AP classes in high school than men.” we’re talking about the judiciary here, not your emotional chip-on-shoulder playpen
And nothing smacks more of the “emotional chip-on-shoulder playpen” then a paragraph that says nothing more than “Nyaa, nyaa, women are just as bad as men are!” It goes well with the image of someone making a face and sticking out their tongue and making a face.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:00 amI don’t think anyone brought it up at the time,but I thought then and still now think that Bushs’ nomination of Harriet Miers was so ridiculous as to completely distract everyone from his true intent, to NOT nominate a woman to the court!And, if true, it may have been his most inspired calculation in all of his presidency. Of course except for all of that crap about WMD. Am I alone in this perception??
May 7th, 2009 at 12:11 amOK, let’s correct that statement:
GILLESPIE: He did not get gun shy after that, but I think that in the next round of the selection process, the person who emerged as clearly most qualified — really head and shoulders above others –was Samuel Alito, and there wasn’t a REPUBLICAN/CONSERVATIVE woman who was of a comparable experience and skill and temperament and intellect.
There. Fixed it for you, you misogynistic assclown.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:45 amTo diffrntdrummr,
I sometimes felt the same way.
And I do know of a case at a prestigious university where a woman not highly thought of by colleagues of both genders was given a tenured appointment, sort of as a way to tell feminists, “Look, we hired a woman, and see: she’s not so competent.”
diffrntdrummr Says:
May 7th, 2009 at 1:04 amI don’t think anyone brought it up at the time,but I thought then and still now think that Bushs’ nomination of Harriet Miers was so ridiculous as to completely distract everyone from his true intent, to NOT nominate a woman to the court
Yeah, Ed can’t name any female that has intellect, temperment and all those intangibles he claims.
Fact is if you check back in Alito’s judicaial record on the appeals court. One would find he is a corporate hack. Wealth and corporations are above the constitution. They get special considerations that are in direct opposition of the United States of America.
And his reward is the Supreme Court seat.
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May 7th, 2009 at 4:52 amDoh! Wouldn’t it just be easier and save them at least a teensy bit of dignity if they would just say what they mean. I’ll translate: “Women are lower than men and should shut their mouths and stay in the kitchen.” These right-wingers are seriously not all there.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:00 am“…comparable experience and skill and temperament …”
Dare we add, “… a person who would take a payoff from Corporate America to FIX cases before the Court, and stick his head up their filthy asses any further than he can…”.
Has there EVER been a lower life form sitting on the Supreme Court than that pig Alito?
May 7th, 2009 at 7:28 amAh, Bush just couldn’t find a woman as stupid and as incompetent as Alito. All the women that Bush may have considered were more knowledgeable and competent and there was no way that Bush wanted anyone “smarter” then him on the bench. That set the standards very low.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:32 amGlad you mentioned that. I, too, thought that the Harriet Miers nomination was a diversion from what Bush really was planning on doing. Probably the only “inspired calculation” on his part. Too bad he failed in choosing a qualified person to serve on the court. Another Bush failure.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:49 amOh, the Republicans threw Harriet Miers under the bus way back in 2005. Then just when they thought the dust would settle from that debacle, another female bit them in the ass. Her name was Katrina.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:00 amShe would have been the perfect, for what they were looking for..lol GMTA *snap*
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Here’s the translation:
May 7th, 2009 at 9:45 am“Most women find right-wing ideology pretty repulsive and insulting to them personaly, so when we want to appoint a token woman to the Supreme Court, we didn’t have a lot to choose from: skanky opportunists, malleable dimbulbs, or religious fanatics. You know, Coulter, Miers, Palin Not a lot to work with. So we went with your standard corporatist hack who could be counted on not to grow a pair or a cerebral cortex, and there you go.”
“Look, Reagan thought he had a perfect Republican woman with O’Connor, and look what happened. And Souter himself–slightly creepy sexually repressed recluse–should have been a slam-dunk, right? And look what happened. And we all know that it was even money that Slappy Thomas would cling to Scalia like a limpet, or read Soul On Ice while drunk and go Mau Mau on us.”
“So, sam Alito. Best f a bad lot.”
Hi my name’s Ed Gillespie and I’m a good old fashioned male chauvinist pig. Any questions?
May 7th, 2009 at 10:27 amYeah, and if we let another broad into the court, they’ll paint the walls pink and spend all their time sewing new draperies.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:28 amThis is silliness. Anybody that has ever interviewed anybody for a job knows that a job selection process (yes, even the supreme court!) is never truly like “this one person in the universe is better than everybody else in the universe.” It doesn’t work that way! Some people are not qualified (ahem, Harriet Miers), and the rest have qualifications all over the map. Then it’s just a matter of whose skillset you think most closely matches what you are looking for. And even then, there are usually multiple candidates.
To claim there was not a single woman in all of the U.S.A. that was as qualified as Alito is just silly!
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