Posted on 08/17/2005 12:56:26 AM PDT by goldstategop
That carefully crafted political blank slate of Judge John Roberts is getting filled in piece of by piece.
And what it reveals is an ugly portrait of a backstabbing establishment Republican who subverted the political will of the greatest American president of the 20th century.
Memos drafted by the Supreme Court nominee during his tenure in President Reagan's Justice Department show a distinct hostility to the conservative ideals embraced by his boss and to some of the individuals who championed those ideals.
Take, for instance, a Dec. 14, 1981, memo, obtained by the Washington Times, and written to his colleague, Kenneth Starr, another country-club Republican, who would later bamboozle President Reagan into nominating Sandra Day O'Connor as a Supreme Court justice.
The topic was a book called, "A Blueprint for Judicial Reform," produced by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation. The American Bar Association, no friend of the Reagan administration, was quizzing new Attorney General William French Smith about the ideas in the book.
Roberts let his hair down and revealed just what kind of a snake he truly is in this memo he probably thought would remain forever a private communication.
"I suggest we keep as low a profile on this as possible," he wrote to his co-conspirator Starr. "Weyerich [sic] is of course no friend of ours, but it won't help to stir up the influential contributors to this volume, and any comment by the AG will simply highlight the fact that we have yet to take a position" on some of the issues raised by the book.
Weyrich is no friend of ours!
Only an anti-conservative would make such a comment.
Weyrich is one of the shining intellectual lights of the modern conservative movement.
You can like him. You can dislike him. But he's a true believer and closely represented the will and ideals of Ronald Reagan, the man sitting in the White House – the man Roberts was ultimately supposed to be serving.
I've seen this kind of weasel all too often skulking around the corridors of our nation's capital – undermining visionary leaders like Reagan, betraying the people who elected them to office, promoting their own personal political agendas.
Roberts is the kind of Beltway creature I most detest. He's not man enough to stand up and tell you what he really believes. He doesn't want to be accountable for defending his positions publicly. So he conspires in the dark behind closed doors and writes memos attacking righteous men who have the courage to operate in the light.
The fact that Roberts twice misspelled Weyrich's name also suggests just how out of touch he was with conservative thought. All conservatives knew Weyrich in 1981. He was seen as one of the architects of the Reagan landslide victory and part of the conservative brain trust that would set the nation on a new political course.
Remember, this is the guy who can't remember if he ever joined the Federalist Society. He's pathological.
Now, I don't consider myself a conservative, but I do consider myself a friend to many conservatives. And my advice to those friends is to recognize right now that John Roberts is the enemy. One of my beefs with conservatives is they never seem to see it coming. They didn't recognize what Ken Starr was and is. And they still don't see the handwriting on the wall with John Roberts.
Roberts was an insider then defending the indefensible policies of the permanent bureaucracy of the Justice Department that was out to thwart Reagan initiatives.
He's a backroom "fixer," and he's just been rewarded for his underhanded wheeler-dealing with a lifetime nomination to the Supreme Court – and he will not be denied, not by the fat-cat Republicans who dominate the U.S. Senate.
In another memo to French in 1982, Roberts showed he understood how easy it was to win over conservatives with a simple phrase – a gimmick now employed with great success by President Bush.
When preparing the attorney general for an interview with the editor of the Conservative Digest, he suggested dropping the phrase "judicial restraint." That would do the trick.
Hey, isn't that the very same phrase that Bush used in announcing his nominee to the world?
Au contraire, I'm saying you're talking about something you have no clue about. Do I need to be more specific, or is that good enough??
FU - you were the same guy that someone else outed as a contractor over there claiming to be in the military. Am I wrong??????
So how many times have you been to Iraq?
Which branch of service were you in?
Great artwork! Really. Cool. Wish I knew how to do that. Seriously. This is not sarcasm. I am impressed.
I think you have nothing except what other people give you....
and you shouldnt listen to him either I may add....
I can't claim credit for it, but I will tell my friend who I borrowed it from....not whether it is truly his or not...I don't know....
I have never claimed to be in the military - wake up. If you were/are in the military I salute you and thank you but I am sick and tired of those claiming to have served just for political high ground when posting. I am a proud conservative - and damn right I support Tancredo - for the weak kneed RINOs who dont like true conservatives then try a different board to post on.
You speak the truth - and I looked back thru this thread before I saw your post to see where sasafrass could have misconstrued something you said. He jumped to his own stupid conclusion.
Where did Mike claim to be military?? Show me.
Reagan made some mistakes. Every President does.
No, unfortunately those on the left almost never error when nominating judges. The only one that comes to mind is Byron White, but then again Kennedy wasn't all that flaming.
So all that, having your friends claim, by inuendo, that you served in the military. Come on you knew what you were pulling. Just come out and say you didnt serve in the military - that would have been much better than dragging this discussion into the mud. I suggest you change your posting name - you know that it creates the impression that you served in the military and therefore tries to intimidate others who may have an opinion contrary to yours but who would not want to offend you because many feel like I do that those that have truly sacrificed for the rest of us have more of a say than myself.
Bull.
You have been asked to stop posting to her, you have not.
Now, In the interests of politeness, I will personally ask you myself: Stop posting to her.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461453/posts?page=223#223
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461453/posts?page=218#218
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459885/posts?page=103#103
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459331/posts?page=514#514
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459331/posts?page=357#357
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429939/posts?page=126#126
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449447/posts?page=126#126
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446470/posts?page=41#41
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447220/posts?page=74#74
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444551/posts?page=162#162
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444551/posts?page=98#98
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444551/posts?page=86#86
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444551/posts?page=74#74
"So all that, having your friends claim, by inuendo, that you served in the military. "
Funny, that wasn't your initial statement.
Now you're moving the goal posts.
Care for me to quote your initial accusation?
That's bull. It only shows that you're stupid enough to jump to conclusions without information.
See post 158 ahole. Game is up and I will call you out from now on.
My God...
You ARE retarded....
in seriousness, I will pray for you to get over your mental haze....
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