There was one going around a few years ago about Jackie having no shadow on the trunk lid.
A critic didn't believe my argument that the Jackie shadow was present, just some areas overwhelmed by ambient light. He replicated the hand on the trunk and came over to my side. I wonder if that critic became one of the many CTs who convert to LNism.
Having someone listen to reason made me think of Lindsey Graham's comments yesterday about the near full-vote Ruth Bader Ginsburg got in the Senate decades ago, showing there was a time when opposing sides could compromise. However, Graham's comparison is kind of illogical as Ginsburg was a moderate recommended by Republican Orrin Hatch and she wasn't forced through during the closing weeks of an election.
Ginsburg wasn't a moderate; she was a noted ACLU lawyer known for her openly liberal views. There was hardly any objection to her nomination - she was confirmed 95-3 - and I don't recall any efforts by conservative to run anti-Ginsburg ads or accuse her of all sorts of corruption. Scalia, a noted conservative, was confirmed by a 98-0 vote.
Eisenhower nominated - actually recess appointed him since the Senate was not in session - William Brennan to an open seat two weeks before the election. Brennan was a Catholic and Eisenhower was hoping to get some Catholic votes in the election by doing so.
Graham is 100% correct. There was a time when both sides compromised and reached agreement on these matters. But those are long gone and it's why we see the two sides running campaign type ads and commercials against candidates. If Barrett had been nominated to replace Kennedy she would have picked up, at best, a handful of Democrats. The days of the 92-0 votes are dead.
