Ruth Bader Ginsburg has consistently defended the Constitution. She has put herself up on a daily basis as a protector of what's right in America. Imagine if you will going to work every day and facing Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and John Roberts. They snicker at your ideas. They sleep through your presentations. They belittle you through surrogates in the press. They laugh at you in duck blinds.
And she has consistently stood up for every basic civil right protected by the Constitution. She is a hero. She puts an immediate human face on what will happen if Samuel Alito joins the gang of three. Put yourself in her shoes for a moment.
And we can't support a filibuster? (more)
What message are we sending her? We sit at keyboards and argue and nit pick. She is out there, taking the hits for us, her decisions smeared and vilified by press and pundits we call names. She is actually doing it, and we debate.
What right do we have to presume she will stay steadfast? Can she say, well, I'll keep my powder dry until the next time? If we don't support her on stopping this ascension, which now costs us nothing, what right do we have to expect that she will continue to be a hero?
C-SPAN last week repeated her confirmation hearings in front of Orin Hatch and his buddies. They gave her full barrel, and she shot them all down. She cleaned their clocks. What guts! She took everything they could throw at her and exposed their arguments.
We've got to realize the broader questions. The Alito fight must be considered in the context of effects on others who are fighting our fight.
It's our turn. We can't abandon her. She's a hero.