Rich Lowry has an interesting article on Real Clear Politics [1] by way of Memeorandum:
Would someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, “I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never, ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are stake”?
By the standard Democrats are using to oppose the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general, the answer would be “no.” In fact, whoever endorsed torture so explicitly would be relegated to the moral outer darkness. Lucky for him, Sen. Chuck Schumer, who made the above comment during a June 2004 Senate hearing on terrorism, is a member in good standing of the Senate Democratic leadership.
And that, in a nutshell, exposes the Democrat party’s stated objection to Mukasey for the fraud it is.
And for that matter, their (Now) stated objection to “torture’.
This is, in reality moral pygmies trying to get into a position where they can verbally ‘look down’ on their opponents’ morality. Trouble is, their own history shows us that even THEY know the position they’re now taking, simply is not realistic.