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DNC Swings at Alito and Misses

by Sean Hackbarth

It’s not a good start for the Alito attack machine at Howard Dean’s DNC when Chris Matthews goes on television and bashes your lousy brand of politics. Matthews went on MSNBC to excoriate a DNC fact sheet with the first item being how Alito failed to win convictions over New Jersey mobsters. Matthews decried the Italian bashing implicit in accusation:

They shouldn’t go after ethnicity. As a prosecutor, a judge, a yale law grad. I don’t understand this kind of politics. Unless they have someone who’s not on the top of 20 items. The guy being an Italian American not nail a conviction in 17 years ago? Interesting.

Matthews doesn’t understand the bad politics at the DNC? How about the inept loudmouth running the show?

Wizbang has Matthews’ appearance courtesy of The Political Teen.

But wait! There’s more! Enterprising RedStaters looked through the original MS Word document and found what DNCers were working on it.

What would Einstein make of this?

einstein-dnc-alito.jpg

“Alito Smear Document Came Directly From DNC”

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 at 12:47 am and is filed under Law. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Responses to “DNC Swings at Alito and Misses”

1

I don’t see the attack on his “ethnicity”. I see an attack on his effectiveness as a judge.

Are we saying that his record is off-limits, now?

2

Well, Chris Matthews, who’s seen his share of “hardball” politics thought linking Alito, an Italian, to the mob was disgusting. It’s like saying Ted Kennedy shouldn’t pass judgement on Alito because he’s an Irish drunk.

3

I don’t see where he was “linked to the mob.” I simply see where his failure to succesfully prosecute a mob boss was brought up.

Look, as an Italian-American myself, I’m as sensitive to the mob issue as anybody - I don’t see where it was implied that Alito is in the pocket of the mob. In the pocket of the President? Absolutely. The mob? I don’t see it.

4

Oh, and just to cover all the bases - what’s the evidence that this “memo” is actually from anybody in the DNC? Or are we just supposed to take Chris’s word for it?

5

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/31/235353/19