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Just because someone has an old sign up date means nothing -- some signed up here after 2000 and just lie around coming up for air ever so often to post.

Sleeper Trolls.

I have decided to take the tact of make their comments into humor instead of getting upset. Does more good IMO!

Excellent strategery and is also the preferred method of dealing with the 'Rats. Lord knows making the 'Rats look like fools these days is like taking candy from a baby -- look what Karl Rove did to them (boy did the attacks on Rove stop fast once the morons figured out he Jedi mind-tricked them!)

It's great being on the Right these days. The Seventies with the 'Rats in charge of Congress and then Carter; The Eighties with the 'Rat House; the Nineties w/ Bubba; 2001-2 with Jumping Jim Jeffords stealing our majority. We're sitting better than since before FDR, thanks mostly to GWB, and these morons still complain? Whatever.

My husband JohnRobertson posted this thread, sat back in his chair, and said, "I started out thinking this was going to be a dull night, but things are about to heat up." Then the phone rang. A family member is in a situation that demands his presence. He ran out, came back in a couple hours, changed shirts, and waited for the coffee to perk.

While waiting, he took a look. He only had time to post one reply, but he asked me to keep reading, and defend him "only if someone's really out of line."

He expected sharp criticism, sharp reaction. It has all fallen pretty much along the lines he told me it would.

He is convinced that the ascension of anyone other than a true conservative to the court will be a disaster--for our country, our culture, our future. He said something along the lines of: "If we get a 'moderate,' we're going to end up as neutered as most of Europe, and a lot sooner than anyone thinks."

I happen to disagree, by the way. I happen to think he's overreacting. But I am happy to tell you that he is a lifelong conservative Republican, has worked in many state and national campaigns, and has contributed enough money to Republicans over the years that, in a few lean times, we had to laugh about there being any chance of getting a refund. Contributed to, campaigned for, and voted for Bob Dole. Almost got arrested when he demanded that the cop enforce the laws about electioneering too close to the polling place (the dems were ramming their campaign literature in people's face. He complained and the cop said, It's not that big a deal. Hubby said: It's the biggest deal going today, and if you don't enforce the law, I'll make a call and get a television news camera shoved right up your ass. That cop glares at him to this day.)

Never voted for Perot. Saw that coming together for Clinton and said, Don't people realize what they're doing? Putting in that guy from Arkansas. LaRouche is a kook to him.

He is a true conservative, and manages himself, his friends, his life, his business, his affairs and his family in a very generous way, with compromise and moderation.

But he has a few things he won't compromise on. Abortion is one, and this issue has become another abortion issue for him: You are either pro-life or you're not. If you're not for conservative judges, for him, you must be in favor of letting activist judges decide how we're going to live. He knows where that will lead, and thinks it will lead us there fast: Tyranny of the citizen and his or her soul, or insurrection. He doesn't want either one, and sees that it's far smarter to head the issue off now.

Like I said, I think he's overreacting, but I've known him too long to think I can change his opinion, or to not respect that opinion.

I think that you, in his words, have igone "really out of line."

You, PhiKapMom, should be embarrassed. You've spent so much time demonstrating how superior you are to almost everyone. But didn't we all learn back in grade school that the ones who have to keep telling us how superior they are to the rest of us are just doing it because they know they're not? Then, didn't we learn from our mamas, that even if we are superior, we shouldn't show it? That true superiority would never stoop to shout about itself?

And you're lazy:

"Just because someone has an old sign up date means nothing -- some signed up here after 2000 and just lie around coming up for air ever so often to post."

Check things out. This guy spends too much damned time on this forum! He's always posting, responding, posting, reading. That was a totally gratuitious remark that you could have avoided if you'd bother to take a look. I'll defend your right to say whatever you want, but if you disparage one of mine, especially my husband, I am damned coming after you.

It's late, and I have more urgent matters to tend to. I know you'll respond, but it will be lost on me, because I'm not coming back here. I will ask JohnRobertson very nicely and firmly not to get into it, when he finally gets back to his computer, and he will probably listen to me. He listens to me on almost everything. But not this judge issue.

If you really wanted to demonstrate your superiority, you'd post an apology to my husband, and perhaps even follow it up with an email note. Remember the handmaident to superiority: Class.

Signed, JohnRobertson's Wife.