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In reply to the discussion: To Those On The Left Who Think Ruth Bader Ginsburg Should Retire... Go Fuck Yourselves. [View all]WillyT
(72,631 posts)19. Hey Sarah... Elena Or Sonia... Or Even Stephen... Has The Exact Same Potential Problem!!!
I've had many friends die way before their time...
What I'm suggesting... is that for all this brave talk about getting out the vote, we cower in the corner and kick to the curb one of our brightest most courageous jurists and heroes...
BECAUSE WE AFRAID WE MIGHT LOSE ???
If that's who we are... we deserve to lose.
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To Those On The Left Who Think Ruth Bader Ginsburg Should Retire... Go Fuck Yourselves. [View all]
WillyT
Jul 2014
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I'm not convinced BHO <<WANTS>> anybody as liberal as RBG on the Court. Might interfere with DEMS'
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2014
#28
This is news to me--who "on the left" wants her to retire? I thought only the righties
MADem
Jul 2014
#6
It's been coming up at DU with some frequency. Some seem to think it's her "duty" to retire...
Hekate
Aug 2014
#46
Why not just let the next Democratic President do that--if she wants to leave, that is?
MADem
Aug 2014
#51
Give him a quart jar wid' tha bracciole and the neck to take home. He's got no
msanthrope
Aug 2014
#61
NO, she stays as long as she wants to..I was worried due to her health she would retire but she
Jefferson23
Jul 2014
#12
I like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But since we are ALL mortal (last time I checked)...
Sarah Ibarruri
Jul 2014
#16
Hey Sarah... Elena Or Sonia... Or Even Stephen... Has The Exact Same Potential Problem!!!
WillyT
Jul 2014
#19
Exactly, which is why I'm SO SURPRISED that WillyT would say such a thing.
Sarah Ibarruri
Jul 2014
#25
Um... let me put it to you this way, I want someone FAR MORE LIBERAL than Ginsburg.
Sarah Ibarruri
Jul 2014
#23
Who knows? But since she's very old, and I want someone very lib (as opposed to yet another pukable
Sarah Ibarruri
Jul 2014
#32
BINGO !!! - We'd Have To Put Up A Corporate Jurist That Meets Republican Dogma...
WillyT
Jul 2014
#33
People have been saying that for years. Hell, 5 years ago she had pancreatic cancer.
morningfog
Jul 2014
#36
Yo yo yo, ya'll who want the Notiorious R.B.G to step down can go fuck yoself!
MohRokTah
Jul 2014
#41
Another absurd example of coloring that kind of thinking as coming from "The Left"
2banon
Aug 2014
#72
I am way to the left of what passes as The Left here. Any call for resignation is beyond absurd.
2banon
Aug 2014
#75
Eh. I'd rather see a young liberal get nominated now than risk getting another Scalia.
Dawgs
Aug 2014
#59
The only reason for her to retire, is to assure that her replacement will be made by a Democratic...
DrewFlorida
Aug 2014
#80