Fred Barnes: The Bork Precedent (What the defeat of Bork's nomination taught the Bush White House)

The Weekly Standard ^ | July 1, 2005 | Fred Barnes

[river rat]

"Even Republican Senator John Warner of Virginia, a moderate conservative,.....

I lost Fred's thought string at that!

Warner has been a "Hollywood type cast" characterization of a Senator - since he got to Washington...

A Bozo with limited intellectual or conservative resources.

Remember folks -- this is the jerk that married Elizabeth Taylor in the last 70's -- divorced in the early 80's after about 5 years..

Semper Fi

[Spirited]

GHWB is the reason I don't trust the apple off that tree to either. What we have seen in Bolton and on other matters bears this out.

[LibertarianInExile]

Now THAT is a great idea.

If Bush did that he could get the lame duck RINOs who will not run again or who lose in their next election to buy into the next nominee before they leave at the end of 2006 (early 2007? I forget when they're actually sworn in).

That might actually work out well.

[wny]

You're absolutly right. McCain sees this as a way to get his name in the paper and to be on all the Sunday talk shows.

[GladesGuru]

"The man should become a muslim."

You, Sir, are a sadist's sadist. ;-)

As a Muslim, Kennedy could not take a drink of alcohol. Indeed, he could not even look at alcohol.

What a fitting punishment for the alcoholic Intern Drowner.

[tkathy]

an untelegenic beard I'll never forget the closeups of Bork's awful facial hairs that looked more like pubic hair than a beard. Bolton should get rid of his bizarre white facial thingie.

[Comus]

I was thinking the same thing. If John Warner is a moderate conservative I am a green Martian. RINO is a more fitting description.

[duckln]

Warner should be ' shunned'. He is a 'blow-hard' and I shutter when he presents the Republicans side of issues.

He voted against Bork and personally led the fight to defeat Oliver North, giving the senate seat to Rob, a Democrat. He has literally cost the Republican party millions.

[Tribune7]

There has been a couple of changes worth noting, however. Namely, the Dems controlled the Senate and had a monopoloy on the media.

That's not the case now.

[Comus]

If he was a Democrat and betrayed his party and the people who elected him, he would be "officed" in a broom closet and be chairman of the Toilet Bowl Oversight Committee.

[Gunrunner2]

God himself could be nominated and the democRATs would cite the devil in opposition.

Anything to stop Bush, that is the RATs credo.

[Gunrunner2]

Actually, a "good" muslim would drink only when outside Saudi, divorce one of his many wives by simply saying "I divorce you" three times, have extra-marital sex/rape. . .as long as the woman/girl/boy was non-muslim, and pray five times a day for the elimination of all non-muslims. . .hmmm. . .sounds like a cross-section of Rat congresscritters.

[puroresu]

When Kennedy gives a hysterical speech opposing President Bush's nominee, as he inevitably will, Karl Rove should call a press conference and say the following:

"It isn't surpising that Senator Kennedy opposes our nominee to replace Justice O'Connor. Ted Kennedy's America is a land in which infants can have their brains sucked out, child molesters can prowl the halls of our public schools, terror suspects receive luxury hotel accomodations, and anti-Christian bigots urinate on Christian symbols. Above all, Ted Kennedy's America is a land in which a young woman can be left to die a slow death at the bottom of a pond while the philandering drunkard who left her there flits about like an egotistical coward as he searches for his attorney. Frankly, I wouldn't trust a judge who had Senator Kennedy's support."

[bigjoesaddle]

Did I miss something? Did Barnes mention that the Democrats controlled the Senate at the time 54 to 46.

No, he didn't, and I was looking for the Sennate numbers at the time. Thanks.

FReepers doing the media's job again.

[river rat]

"Sen" Warner is the "model Republican" the media loves to put on camera and prod into making some inane observation about the issue at hand...

He is predictably pompous and unintelligible.....
Exactly what the media wanted to project about the Republican/Conservative position...

He simply lost the camera to the younger and more verbose McCain.......
MaCain is more photogenic, eager to go on camera, ambitious to be loved by the media and more willing to damage almost any conservative position or politician..

Another interesting parallel between these two feckless imbeciles -- is that they both married their "trophy" wife - in their "prime"...

Semper Fi

[dangus]

you don't remember the thomas hearings that well, then, do you?

[no dems]

You go boy!!!