Confirmation Consternation

So, I was watching some of the Judge Roberts hearings this week, because I’m a law student, I’m taking constitutional law this semester, and the peer pressure was phenomenal. It reminds me of when I was a vocal Baptist at a Presbyterian seminary and I would have to spend every June after the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention explaining why Baptists love Jesus but hate gays, Disney, women, science, and fashion men’s apparel. You’re just expected to have some answers. And as I watched the Roberts confirmation hearings, I was appalled at the idea that people would bring stuff up to a 50 year old man that he wrote as a law clerk when he was 26 and say, in present tense, that those thoughts ARE his ideas. I mean, it totally made me think, what if some fruit cake is out there printing off my blogs and cataloguing them to bring up against me should I ever run for office or be nominated for the Supreme Court or some inferior bench. Perhaps I should be more careful what I write. Perhaps I should use more decorum, be more reserved in my personal ranting and revelations. Or perhaps Americans should get a friggin’ grip, stop deifying their leaders, and give guys like Judge Roberts a break. I mean, the guy is getting confirmed for the US Supreme Court, not the fourth person of the Trinity. And if YOU are printing these blogs of mine for the ignoble purpose of future blackmail, character assassination, or negative campaign fodder, I hope you print the following sentences and insert your own name in the appropriate blanks: “Mike is running for the Alabama Supreme Court. But Mike once told blog-reader ______ to get a friggin’ grip and stop deifying America’s leaders. Is that the sort of level headed, free thinking, politically incorrect, legally competent, socially aware, Hawaiian shirt wearing hero you want on the bench of the Alabama Supreme Court? Really? Good. Me too. Elect Mike, Alabama Supreme Court Justice. Paid for by the Committee Who Got a Friggin’ Grip, Stopped Deifying Leaders, and Supported People for Important Positions Without Acting Like a Self-Serving Little Brat Like Joe Biden did back in 2005.”
Mike in 2020!