To Heck with those RED STATE Hoosiers!

Bayh to oppose Roberts for chief justice, by Sylvia A. Smith, Washington editor:

John Roberts is too much of an enigma, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., said Friday, saying he “regrettably” will oppose the fellow Hoosier next week when the Senate votes on Roberts’ confirmation to be chief justice.

Roberts grew up in northwest Indiana, where he lived and went to private grade school and high school before moving east to attend Harvard and start a legal career that included a Supreme Court clerkship, work in two Republican administrations, a private law practice and an appointment as a federal judge.

Senator Evan Bayh, along with Senator Lugar, introduced John Roberts to the Judiciary Committee before the panel began its questioning. Bayh has not challenged Roberts’ legal credentials to serve on the nation’s highest court. He said he would vote against the nominee because Robert’s personal views on important issues are an enigma. He said that Roberts was presented the opportunity to disavow the positions of legal memos written in his early law career, but that Roberts refused.

There you have it, according to Evan Bayh and other out-of-the-mainstream liberals, unless your personal views agree with theirs, especially on abortion, you cannot be trusted to defend and uphold the Consititution of the United States of America. Is this the view of most Hoosiers from the Red State of Indiana? Somehow, I doubt it.

Does anyone now believe that George Bush could pick any Supreme Court nominee who would receive support from the Democrats? Are Republicans dumber than Democrats, or are they more respectful of the U.S. Constitution? Did Republicans refuse to vote for ultra liberal Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsberg because of her ACLU views? The Washington Times editorial today reports:

Within their eight-member contingent on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, the number of Democrats who voted against John Roberts to be chief justice exceeded the number of Republicans in the entire Senate caucus who opposed Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 1993 nomination. Five of the Democrats’ eight committee members opposed Judge Roberts, a conservative who would replace the late William Rehnquist, who arguably was more conservative. Twelve years ago, only three of the 44 Republican senators voted against Justice Ginsburg, the extremely liberal former general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union who replaced the centrist Byron White.

Tracked at It’s A Pundit and Chateau d’If.