Once Upon a (Republican) Time
How does the Republican Party pick its candidates? Settle back my dear friends, I’ll tell you a true story.
Once open a time, three Republicans were finalists for a judgeship in a rural area of a rural state. One had applied for the judgeship six times before. He had never been selected.
The other two candidates were both well-qualified applicants. One was a competent lawyer. He had applied twice before. The other was a brilliant lawyer. The brilliant lawyer would have made an outstanding jurist. But this was his first application.
The committee assigned to pick the judge was made up of Republicans … all Republicans. For this, I remind you, was a rural community in a rural state…….>>