Paper outs David Clarke as a Republican

He won't say he is one, but David Clarke walks like a Republican, talks like a Republican, quacks like a Republican, and hangs out with Republicans.

You can't blame the Journal Sentinel for concluding that Clarke must be a Republican duck, as it did in a story today.

Clarke gives nominee thumbs up

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. on Thursday urged Wisconsin Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold to support John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"As a 28-year veteran of law enforcement and sheriff of Milwaukee County, I have a keen interest in who may get placed on the Supreme Court," Clarke said in a telephone interview. "I favor a nominee who is going to be a strict constructionist of the Constitution, who is going to apply the Constitution in the way the Founding Fathers laid it out, not like a living, breathing document that moves."

Earlier, Clarke joined other state Republicans at a news conference in front of the federal courthouse to urge Kohl and Feingold, both Democrats and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to give a fair hearing to Roberts, who now serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.