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Originally posted by baltassoc
I think at this point is more of a retribution thing: Republicans gave Clinton so much shit for a) "drug use" and b) draft-dodging that the Democrats can't help but point out when the Republicans put up someone with a similar history (worse on the drug use, maybe better on the draft-dodging, but only barely) up for President.
On a slightly more civil level, the judicial nomination problem is the same thing: the Democrats started it by refusing to confirm Reagan's (wingnut) appointee Bork, then the Republicans had to exact revenge when Clinton started appointing judges, and now Democrats have to respond in kind with Bush.
It's all pretty childish, but it avoids real issues.
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Was it Ginsburg who got dinked because he admitted smoking dope, once? then we ended up with souter basically because he hadn't gone outside for 20 years. No comment on Souter or Ginsburg, but I'd rather have an occasional pot smoker on the bench than someone who avoids life.
