The Right wing has made it fairly [1] clear [2]that they will use whatever tactics necessary to make Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation process as noisy and contentious as possible—not because of any substantive objections to Kagan as a nominee, but because they think making a racket might help them out in November’s elections [3].
People For has been keeping an eye on the attacks that the Right wing has been lobbing on Kagan, and we’ve laid out the four main strategies we’re seeing in a new Right Wing Watch report [4].
- Push the circular logic that goes: “Obama is radical so Kagan is radical so Obama is radical.”
- Recycle the old and distorted attacks about “empathy” to attack the nominee’s “understanding.”
- Lie big and lie often
- Use confirmation hearings to court anti-government tea-party voters
You can read the full report here [4] or print yourself a copy [5]and follow along as Kagan’s confirmation hearings unfold.