With a deacon to his right and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to his left on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., delivered a sermon better suited to stamping out sin than squashing a Supreme Court nominee, condemning in the process any of his colleagues who would consider voting for Brett Kavanaugh as being “complicit in the evil.”
So thirsty for a 2020 berth, the wide-eyed New Jersey Democrat perfectly encapsulates the Left’s crazed and dizzying hysteria over the nomination of Kavanaugh.
“I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment there is no neutral. In a moral moment there is no bystanders,” Booker said Tuesday. “You are either complicit in the evil, you are either contributing to the wrong, or you are fighting against it.”
Advising and consenting and compromising isn’t enough for Booker anymore. By his holy book of liberal pities, any judge nominated by any Republican president must be treated like an enemy of God and run out of the upper chamber.
On one point though, Booker is correct. “My ancestors said if someone shows you who they are,” the senator warned, “believe them the first time. He has shown us who he is.” And yes, Kavanaugh has shown us his character.
We know from his legal writings that Kavanaugh is a textualist and an originalist not outside the mainstream of conservative jurisprudence.
We know also that Kavanaugh is a good father who coaches his daughters’ basketball teams, a good neighbor who went out of his way to dance with a little girl who lost her own dad, and a good Christian who volunteers at his church to help the needy.
And we know finally that Booker is a dishonest opportunist hell-bent on advancing his political career, facts be damned.
