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Lawyers Dominate Among Democrats

September 5, 2012 @ 11:26 am (Updated: 12:13 pm - 9/5/12 )

By re-nominating Obama and Biden, the Democrats have selected only attorneys for all six of the most recent places on national tickets, cementing their status as the party of lawyers. Meanwhile, none of the last 8 Republicans nominated for president or vice president has been a practicing attorney.

Though Romney won a law degree in a joint program along with his Harvard MBA, he never joined the legal profession. All told, 14 of the last 18 places on Democratic national tickets since 1980 have gone to attorneys, and if Al Gore had finished law school at Vanderbilt before running for Congress, that would have been 17 of 18. The domination of the party by lawyers clearly connects to its propensity to address every problem with legal solutions-legislation, regulations, and law suits-rather than private sector, business initiatives.

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  • Pair o'dimes wrote...
    And corporations don't believe in lawyers..
    September 5, 2012 10:57 am
    Every large corporation that supports republicans has lawyers working for them. The Citizens United lawsuit was argued by lawyers in front of lawyers (the Supreme Court). Last I checked Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer. Wasn't he a republican? Bit of a stretch to suggest that lawyers are anti-business. And isn't it a fundamental premise that we as a nation chose a government that would be based on the rule of law? I prefer that to where we are headed with republicans that believe in the rule of business.
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  • joetheretiredguy wrote...
    Expert lawyers
    September 5, 2012 12:22 pm
    The first thing you want to do to solve an economic problem is turn it over to a room full of lawyers. $16 trillion dollars is just a drop in the bucket to them. Lets see.... the tobacco settlements, medical malpractice, national advertising to fertilize for industrial injury plaintiffs. What better use of lawyer skills. Oh yes, National Political Office. You certainly don't want a successful businessman / woman.
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    So what if the dems were / are lawyers?
    September 5, 2012 11:46 am
    if you look beyond the curtain within the republicans, you'll find just as many attorneys as with the dems. And how does this observation even matter? Are you saying that 'because they be lawyers, they be evil'? It would seem that you care more about thier title than what and who they are. Which is sad.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    Previously Leatherneck
    September 6, 2012 5:53 pm
    The scales a a little tipped in favor of 'Crats on this (3/2). You're missing Mike's observation that those with a propensity to go into the law profession have a propensity to approach problems in a certain way. Which brings up a joke: Why don't lawyers take Viagra? It only makes them taller.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    wasn't it Ben Franklin who, in a moment of jest, once said 'first thing we do....
    September 5, 2012 11:53 am
    ..we kill all the lawyers.'
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    Lawyers
    September 5, 2012 12:20 pm
    Let's not forget Medved himself went to law school to avoid military service in Vietnam. Isn't it ironic?
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  • calapete wrote...
    Mitt knew that Harvard educated Lawyers..
    September 5, 2012 12:23 pm
    can't earn the big bucks he intended to make thought sleazy corporate investments and take overs resulting in the loss of many American jobs and many jobs shipped over seas.

    good luck trying to find a lawyer who could lose so many jobs and ship so many jobs overseas, along with his money.

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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    And yet...
    September 5, 2012 12:59 pm
    ...our "constitutional lawyer" POTUS somehow "didn't know" that Obamacare is illegal under the Commerce Clause. Didn't he keep swearing it wasn't a tax increase?

    Meanwhile our "constitutional lawyer" POTUS is shipping OUR jobs and OUR money overseas as part of his "shovel-ready" jobs program...

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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @SeattleNative
    September 5, 2012 1:32 pm
    Actually it wasn't illegal, and the USSC just concurred that it was legal.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    As a TAX, cigar..........
    September 5, 2012 7:08 pm
    As a TAX.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    Just checking in...
    September 5, 2012 7:46 pm
    yep, you are still a little piglet for the GOP. What a waste!
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  • Lysander wrote...
    By ignoring
    September 5, 2012 8:26 pm
    the same problems with republicans you weaken your argument.
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  • Edgar Allan Pho wrote...
    The foundation of Michael's "opinion(s)"
    September 6, 2012 7:49 am
    http://www.michaelmedved.com/photos/view/bush_and_cheney/2576/white_house/da178882-d103-419e-a5b4-ddcfa4d09af4/

    http://townhall.com/columnists/dianemedved/2011/01/05/homeless_in_hawaii/page/full/

    Really makes me want to throw up.

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  • Forrest wrote...
    And Stupidity Dominates Republicans.
    September 6, 2012 8:47 am
    I offer Michael Medved as proof.
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