Ed Gillespie: There wasn’t a single woman of comparable ‘temperament and intellect’ to Alito.

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/06/gillespie-woman-justice/

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.

video at the link

Yikes! What an asswipe!

[Occam Bandage]

1. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised

if they couldn't find a woman who was as big of a Scalia-worshipping shithead.

[HopeHoops]

2. Oh, there's only one way to respond to that chauvinist bullshit....

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Dumbfuck asshole.

[lsewpershad]

20. NO

This asswipe was not born of a womwn. He was dropped on his f..ing head from a roval palm.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Tweety and that gal from the conservative "Womens Independent Forum" are also posing

the same question.

"Why not get the best qualified?"

"Yes, what about the white males out there?"

:wtf:

Unbelievable - Tweety needs to break his misogynistic streak and have LIBERAL women on more.

[LakeSamish706]

4. Big question is how would Bush have known anything about temperament and intellect? n/t

[krispos42]

5. Really?

I didn't realize that Michelle Bachmann had died...


:hide:

[3waygeek]

22. Only her brain is dead...

a common affliction amongst Republicans.

[blogslut]

6. Fuck you, Ed

You damned liar. There was a woman. Her qualifications were/are stellar. She was/is a Texan too.

Her crime? She ruled against the cattle industry. Now she's too old.

http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/robinson.html
http://www.actx.edu/foundation/index.php?module=article&id=35
http://www.texasbar.com/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=15263&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm


So, fuck you, Ed.

[Occam Bandage]

8. If she's willing to rule against industry,

then she doesn't have the temperament that Alito does.

[blogslut]

13. Her husband survived the Bataan Death March

I still want her on the Court for that very reason.

[Occam Bandage]

14. She sounds like a solid choice.

Which would of course be why the Republicans wouldn't ever put her on the Supreme Court.

[blogslut]

16. Breaks my heart

Don't get me wrong. I am glad to have her on the District Court but it just chaps my ass that she was never considered for the SCOTUS.

[JVS]

7. Well he is a unique piece of work

[madrchsod]

9. mommy,mommy ...the clown is scaring me!

[DBoon]

10. No woman would ever stoop so low

There are, however, many women perfectly qualified to be a supreme court justice

[rufus dog]

11. Remember, Pukes Project and those are code words

Temperament is the key word, means Harriet would have voted with Scalia, Roberts, and Thomas without question, we couldn't find another female who met that criteria.

[EFerrari]

12. That's very true. All the women I know have a cerebral cortex as well as a hind brain. n/t

[Johonny]

15. I guess it depends how you view Alito

I think he meant that Alito is really skilled, has great temperament and is really intelligent. I think he's a hack, blow hard with typical narrow minded right wing thought that passes as intellect if your George Will. I'm glad to hear there aren't many women out there that fit the Alito model ;-)

[OHDEM]

17. No woman with their right-wing point of view...

...was qualified to be a Justice. Once his cleaning lady had to withdraw, he just couldn't find another TOOL with NO ETHICS.

[annabanana]

18. Alito is a bloodless automaton... I HOPE they can't find a woman

of that "temperament"...God!

[lunatica]

19. I used to hear that kind of argument form men back in the 70s

Men would actually argue that women simply couldn't compete with men when it came to brains. And these arguments were totally sincere and serious. We women just aren't equal to men in anything. Not the arts, intelligence or sports. That crap really happened. Now they're coming out of the woodwork again.

Women are just not as qualified as a man could be...

:puke:

[Demeter]

21. Paging Larry Summers....

It never stopped. It just went underground for a while.