Posted on 07/20/2005 7:33:31 AM PDT by Babu
Looks like you're the one offended by this column, maybe *your* feelings are hurt? Awww.....
Hope she is wrong. I was one to predict another souter but if Levin backs Roberts that is a darn good thing.
I'm with you...I find a lot of "generalizations" and Bravo Sierra - but not much in way of hard facts on this guy...
What gives...?
I don't think very many 2nd Amendment cases have gotten to the SC, so many judges never get around to addressing the issue or even thinking about it very much.
And I suspect Ann Coulter would have, too.
We've been so Souter-ized, we have trouble believing it when we win one.
She is always out for the publicitiy angle for herself. Like Mark Fuhrman and many others we see constantly making rash statements and often before the facts are known. But there are some on the right much like those on the left...they will NEVER be satisfied, and they take great pleasure in telling us all that.
No, the mischief was mine, not Ann's in the reference to Souter. Ann probably had Souter on the mind when she chose New Hampshire, but was not referring to Souter, but rather to a liberal's straw-man of a conservative. David Souter did live in the woods in North Weare, New Hampshire (a.k.a., the middle of "No Weare." *smirk*). Ann's liberal's straw man was not supposed to be gay, either, just fearsome of wily temptresses, so the fact Souter is married would, even if she had been referring to him, be moot.
Perhaps you should actually read some of his rulings.
I don't get people like you.
You're like the fat kid Dudley Dursly in Harry Potter who gets angry when his parent give him 37 birthday presents instead of 39.
Sheesh! Get over yourself already.
"'I am extremely disappointed that the President did not appoint a centrist woman to fill Sandra Day OConnors seat on the Supreme Court, said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. We are now going back to tokenism for women on the highest court in the land.'
"Now going back to tokenism"? Um, choosing on the basis of gender WOULD be tokenism. Sheesh. Do these people ever actually listen to themselves?
I understand some reservations about an appointment of someone who isn't widely known for his opinions. However, one would think it made more sense to investigate, talk to people who know him, look at who he worked for (Reagan, for goodness sake).
I just don't understand this column at all. If she needed to meet a deadline on a column, she could have done one about the press's befuddlement yesterday, or Schmer's long list of ridiculous questions, or the fact that the fax machines from Naral, Planned Parenthood, and NOW were churning out reams of paper the minute Roberts' name was known.
It's very puzzling. I honestly sat and read this with my mouth open in astonishment.
At any rate, she is wrong.
Roberts was billed as a strong conservative before he was selected, whereas Souter was an unknown who conservatives passed on becuase his mentor (forget his name - some new England Rhino) insisted he was a conservative. So I'm not sure where Coulter is coming from on this.
I'll find the list that was posted yesterday and repost it. Glad to do it.
Speaking of which, I just attempted to post a timely and, as usual, very well done piece on the Supreme Court's rape of the Constitution by lifelong conservative Joe Sobran.
Much to my surprise and disgust, I find that that is impossible here on FR.
Cyber book burning?
I guess I must swallow some of my earlier today praise for JimRob. I find this astonishingly narrow minded.
PS ... the "offensive" forbidden piece can be found via Drudge.
It could be that Bush went with Roberts to show the Dems for what they are, knowing that they'll filabuster. This will make them look like fools and when the next justice steps down, he'll pull out all the stops and put in Brown or Estrada.
If we don't get a majority of real, originalists on the SCOTUS immediately we end as a nation.
Like you said, we couldn't impeach the traitor, we couldn't prevent the backstabber from chairing the judiciary committee,
we can't/actually won't secure the nation.
If Roberts is a Souter clone the nation is finished.
It won't take but a few more years until there's nothing left.
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