Judicial selection

To the Editor:

In a guest opinion article appearing in The Review on July 8, the liberals from the Wisconsin State Journal are still trying to assassinate the character of Justice Michael Gableman while ignoring the lies that liberal politicians continuously have to spout in order to get elected. They used the same relentless mud-slinging tactics on Judge Annette Ziegler claiming she had a “conflict of interest.”

Why doesn’t the Wisconsin State Journal make an issue of Sen. Russ Feingold’s claim that he is our frugal senator when he voted for a nearly $1 trillion stimulus, a $4 trillion unfunded budget, and a budget-busting health care bill? They are Madison liberals, that’s why.

What really annoys the Wisconsin State Journal liberals is that we now have Wisconsin Supreme Court judges that represent a cross section of the people of our state. Wisconsin citizens, through the “mud pit” of the election process, have a philosophical mix of four conservative-leaning judges and three liberal-leaning judges.

Contrast that to Missouri, a state where a “nominating commission” picks a list of three candidates for the governor to choose from. Then, during the next general election, that appointed judge gets to run unopposed for a 12-year term.

The Missouri judicial selection process systematically eliminates conservative judges that would counterbalance the ideas of the radical liberals that get appointed there. The result is that Missouri’s judges have nothing in common with the many voters in that state. The Missouri system is the dream of the Madison liberals who would like nothing better than to control a Wisconsin version of the “nominating commission.” People of Wisconsin need to resist that outcome.

No liberal attack on a conservative is complete without mentioning race. Former Justice Louis Butler, the man that Gableman beat for the judgeship, is black so the Wisconsin State Journal took their best racist shot by comparing the Gableman ad to a 1998 presidential campaign ad that they thought was offensive. The world needs to understand that conservative opposition to Butler, Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee, or President Barack Obama has nothing to do with race and everything to do with constitutional governance, adherence to the rule of law, and elimination of corruption.
Dennis Gasper
Plymouth