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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]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)25. Exactly, which is why I'm SO SURPRISED that WillyT would say such a thing.
I think maybe he's having a hard day or something. I'm sure WillyT wants Obama to get a chance to put in Ginsburg's place someone even more liberal than Ginsburg. Perhaps he just made a mistake when he typed that.
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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