SOUTER IN ROBERTS CLOTHING, ANN COULTER

Ann Coulter.com ^ | 7-30-05 | Ann Coulter

[not2worry]

I agree. Unfortunately, on some issues I think Ann looks for "Air Time". But makes for interesting discussion.

[rdb3]

I am as puzzled and irritated by this column as I was by Peggy Noonan's over the top criticism of the President's Inaugural Address, which also made no sense.

If that puzzled you, I'm sure you were made worse than the most difficult jigsaw puzzle on Peggy Noonan's column about Ed Klein's book The Truth About Hillary.

[El Gato]

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.

Actually *because* so few second amendment cases (the last being in 1937) are ruled on by the Supreme Court, lower court judges actually have more opportunity to rule on them, since the field hasn't been occupied by the SC. The ninth circuit certainly has addressed the issue, as has the fifth and several others. The DC court of appeals is less likely to have done so, especially in the short time Roberts has been serving there.

[inpajamas]

Don't know but Ann could be doing
Burr Rabbit and Tar Baby here,
"Please Please what ever you do, don't throw me into the brier patch"

If the right cries against him the left will want him.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Bttt

[Darnright]

I don't suppose Ann's doing a "Tar Baby", here.

[Steve_Seattle]

The Dems' tactics are always the same:

1. Divorce a case from the underlying legal principles and focus on a misleading negative image or slogan. ("Judge Smith ruled that grandmas can't live with their grandchildren.")

2. Ignore the rules governing appellate cases, where the basis of the ruling is generally very narrow and where appellate judges are not allowed to dispute facts not presented for appeal.

3. Act as if the judge voted alone (ignore concurrent votes by liberal judges).

4. Mention who won or lost a case (big business/minorities/women) and ignore the underlying facts of the case and the law in question. ("Judge Bork votes for big business.")

5. Describe the judge as an "ideologue" or "extremist" without explaining what those terms mean.

[GatorGirl]

Robert Bork is a brilliant man and a true conservative, but he is nearing eighty. Hardly a good choice for the Supreme Court at this point!!

[Always Right]

BTW, what he wrote in legal briefs means nothing.

Somewhat, a lawyer is a prostitute, but it does not mean they don't have a say in who they prostitute for. I can't imagine a liberal lawyer making a career out of prostituting for only conservatives. And a brilliant prostitute at that. It just doesn't compute. And he is married to a pro-life woman, and is a Catholic. The idea that he is a Souter is bazaar.

[Tribune7]

Can't cite a source but other posts on this thread have also referred to it.

[Darnright]

#386

GMTA

[street_lawyer]

Ann is wrong on Judge Roberts.

And you are right because you "believe" he is going to be another Thomas/Scalia.  I think  you're going to have to do better than that to impress the Freepers in this blog.

[AZLiberty]

Hopefully the liberals are now thinking, "If Ann Coulter doesn't like John Roberts, he can't be all bad.".

It's not like Ann to practice reverse psychology. This will only make it more effective, however.

[MissNomer]

Male model material, definitely! Perhaps that's his "Blue Steel" look. Thanks for the photo!

Someone else commented that Alec Baldwin would have been a better comparison. I guess maybe so, but it's just so hard to remember back when Alec Baldwin was, well, good-looking instead of dissipated. Years of steeping in the fetid brine of leftism have taken their toll.

[hosepipe]

[ This guy is no Souter, and looks very much like a Scalia in adhering to the Constitution. There are some question marks, but I am very comfortable with the choice. ]

"This guy", also thinks America is a democracy.. and a Constitutional Democracy at that <- own words.. on TV yet right after Bush got off the podium..

{snip} A Supreme that thinks the U.S. is a democracy, a Consitutiional democracy.?..
Could be BUSH thinks the same thing.. The Roberts nomination calls BUSHS' qualifications into question more than it does Roberts'.. Maybe, Bush don't ONLY resemble Alfred E. Neuman he is the reality of the cartoon character.. and is trying desperately to PROVE IT..

No wonder Ann Coulter is fit to be tied.. I don't blame her a bit..
Bush just out'ed himself, this time.. She didn't attack Bush directly but should.. Ann Coulter is the leanest meanest RINO Exposer of all time.. They cannot help themselves.. I'm, Watching this thread, closely.. The RINOS will LOVE Roberts... he's one of them..

[steveegg]

Bush, like his father before him, is no conservative. He's a genuine "moderate", of which there are very few in either party.

Which would have to mean taht both parties are dominated by lieberals.

[savedbygrace]

You misunderstood. You were intimating the fact that Mrs. Roberts appears to be pro-life is a good indication of Judge Roberts' position. I said that President Bush's wife is pro-choice. That would seem to defeat, or at least compromise, your conclusion.

[Smile-n-Win]

Maybe Ann is just trying to make his confirmation easier by tricking the rats with this article.

That's the kind of trick rats often use on non-political people ("...the media is controlled by Republican corporations...") but I doubt it could work on the rats themselves. In their eyes, a person to the left of Ann's could still easily be a "dangerous right-wing hater who must be stopped."

I think Miss Coulter is actually speaking her mind in the article. Which is almost always the best policy if you are on the right side of things.

[Joe Boucher]

I understand that and it is important to install some conservative that will be there for decades. It's just I'd love to have seen the dims looks had Bork been named.

[linkinpunk]

I don't think I agree with her, but I need to see a picture of her in a mini-skirt again before I decide for sure.