August 26, 2018 Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor The Sun Sentinel

August 26, 2018

Rosemary O’Hara – Editorial Page Editor

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Judges and grinding other axes – Some comments on the shortcomings of Judge Scherer as seen through the eyes of an ink-stained modern American Liberal.

MS O,

Your capacity to shock, to shock is a testament to my septuagenarian naivete. You would think by now it would have ben beaten out of me.

You say that Judge Scherer, she of the latest outrage, outrage to uber-sensitive, self-appointed guardians of some of the Bill of Rights, lacks gravitas, a word from the election of 2000, remember, got her job because her father knew the Governor.

For this revelation I confess that I am shocked, shocked.

Would I be a “green suited cad” if I were to ask how John McCain got into the Naval Academy? And then, despite an abysmal academic record, got into flight school and, further, despite abysmal personal evaluations, got his wings? If I were to tell you that he was the son and grandson of Admirals would that be a surprise? Actually, it adds to his warrior status. Achilles, John Waldron, Ulysses, John Basilone,  Cervantes, and Stephen Gregg will still welcome him.

Pray tell me how all those Kennedys got in and stayed in at all those Ivy League schools? Papa Joe, Hitler’s not so secret admirer, began the tradition of being The Juice Man, remember? He called in a marker he had on Senator McCarthy – Joe, not Gene – to get Bobby his first job as a government attorney. Then his brother hired him to be his Attorney General because, as he said, he wanted to give him some legal assistance. You can call the current cabal of Kennedy freeloaders a lot of things but “bright” ain’t one of them. 

Didn’t Congresswoman Carrie Meek bequeath her son Kendrick the Mediocre her seat in Congress without dying? You betcha.

I thought it was verboten for anyone, particularly modern American Liberals who deem themselves guardians of public group-think, to interfere with the judicial process? That once lawyers, the first target of Shakespeare’s purge, put on black robes they become 10-foot-tall and bulletproof from the slings and arrows of not quite deplorable journalists.

Some good things have come out of your editorial.

Running for the bench is like trying to become a little bit pregnant. “Politics ain’t beanbag”, remember? You step into the arena pf public choice and you expect to be pummeled and reviled with billingsgate. But here the candidate can’t fling it back. Unnatural. And it is an offense to the First Amendment.

My personal solution to the soto vocce appeal for judicial votes is simple and direct. I will no longer vote for any of them. They’re on their own. I will keep my 54-year voting streak alive by voting for the least evil of two lessers down the ticket

As an aside to the Please Vote to make me a Judge mailing pieces – How many trees had to die and how much polar bear drowning petrochemicals were used to stuff my mail box? – if the candidate does not list the law school they attended it’s a chalk bet that their degree is from Nova. I don’t want to say that the Broward Judiciary is overrun with incest but most of them can look through a key hole with both eyes.

Here are a few “what ifs”.

What if Nikolas Cruz’s name was Ricky Ray Rector?

What if Bill and Hillary ran the state?

What would be the odds that the alleged perpetrator would be toe-tagged by election day?

Quick ending: Should the plans for a 3-D printing of a plastic gun, a gun absolutely undetectable by current technology, be printed in a book which somehow was able to overcome the homeless barricade at the main library and wind up on its shelves, would you support the removal and burning of said book?

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET