if she can get GOP votes, that's a strong argument for Biden to pick her
It doesn't bother me if that he has black women in his pool of consideration. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. To announce at the beginning of the search (or was it the end? We don't know) that it would be a black female was totally stupid, for political points only, and shows what is important to him in the selection. He is not looking for the most qualified, with years of experience on a broad range of legal decisions, at different levels, someone with high degree of legal acumen, and dedication to the law above politics. In the old days, whoever it is would have been marked as an affirmative action "
twofer", two minorities for the price of one, a
token negro woman on the high court. Whoever he gets approved for the post will always know why they are there, ethnicity and gender first, not the culmination (hopefully) of their legal experience and successful dedication to the law and the constitution. Whoever, did not deserve that stupidity on his part. He could have skipped mentioning the criteria, focused on qualifications and if he put a "
twofer" in, could claim the high ground of thoughtful consideration and taken a victory lap at the same time for it just happening to meet that unspoken criteria. But NO. Had to score some political points on the process at the expense of denigrating the value of his appointee before it was even made.
I am glad I didn't vote for Donny, but if you read my posts, you are seeing, he is pissing me off, almost weekly now, me and all the other Independents (especially moderate conservatives) it takes to win that kind of election for a Democrat president.
It is normal to be seen for a Democrat or Republican to play to their more extreme partisan bases in the primaries and run to the center for the election with nomination in hand. He played the moderate all the way through, seemingly standing somewhat strong against the more radically liberal. Yet, since the election, he has wafted in the breeze with the blowing winds and blowhards of the left, showing no spine or independent thought (or much of any other kind) at all. I don't buy the "senile Joe" theory, but I am becoming all down with those that think of him as stupid, spineless, lacking in core convictions, quick to make bad decisions for the benefit of what he would apparently like to have as his actual base, and it isn't the all the American people as a whole, which is what he ran on.