Posted on 07/23/2005 10:03:42 PM PDT by johnmecainrino
Nice try Dave...
A Constitutionalist would naturally "support the right causes" -- unlike O'Connor and Kennedy-types who legislate citing International Law.
Thanks for defining the political postion of "moderate."
You're the perfect RINO.
It's called doing his job.
Apparently, you misunderstand that when one represents a client, one does not wear their views - only bills hourly for them.
O,Connor, Kennedy and Souter??
Lol.
But are the poster's allegation true or not. Is he for affirmative action?
I like John Roberts a lot, but...
Until I am proven wrong, I do to.
"I am not foolish enough to not understand that lawyers for hire argue cases they are hired to agrue."
Thanks. This reassures me a lot. And I didn't think Bush was gonna give us another Souter. I liked the man I saw on TV and agreed completely with the little I have read about him.
snips:
WASHINGTON - While an associate counsel in the Reagan White House, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge John Roberts Jr., made an intellectual argument for limiting the application of federal anti-discrimination laws, but he counseled the administration that for political reasons it should not adopt his view.
The advice from Judge Roberts is contained in a July 24, 1985, memorandum he wrote to the White House counsel, Fred Fielding. The two-page memo was obtained by The New York Sun yesterday from the Reagan Library, which houses a veritable treasure trove of documents that Judge Roberts handled during his four-year stint at the White House.
Senate Democrats have said they will ask for full access to the records, but an archivist said the nonpublic files will be released only upon the request of the Bush administration.
In his memo, Judge Roberts also took a swipe at Mr. Kennedy's legislation, saying it would "radically expand the civil rights laws to areas of private conduct never before considered covered."
--end snips
Looks like the state/Roberts won.
Deciding for the state -
Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Scalia, and Thomas, JJ., joined.
No?
I will be delighted if he turns out to be from Rehnquist's mold. But if he is even close to being another Souter I will take my marbles and go home, to use your metaphor.
But that's my point, no one seems to know who or what Roberts really is, or what position he will take in the SC lineup once he's seated. OTOH, there are numerous highly qualified candidates for the opening about whom we do know a lot, and what we know is very, very good. Why send an unknown rookie to the plate when there are plenty of .400 hitters waiting on the bench?
I just think this reveals the true Bush position on the political spectrum, and it's a far cry from the conservative slot that many of us on the religious right once thought he occupied. I don't recall Bush ever actually promising to appoint a certified conservative Christian to the court if he was given another term, but the impression that he would was certainly encouraged by his handlers and most of FR.
Thanks for defining the political postion of "moderate."
You're the perfect RINO."
RINO; Republican In Name Only.
I came of voting age in 1978. My first Presidential vote was for Ronald Reagan. I have voted for the Republican candidate for President in every election since.
When I was briefly a resident of Georgia I was proud to vote for Newt Gingrich for congress. As a resident of Southwest Missouri today I voted for and am proudly represented in the US Congress by Roy Blunt.
As for you I am sure you have your F16 models laying around the house and you sometimes run with them from one room to another making "vroom vroom" noises and pretending to be flying before falling into one of your terrible coughing spells and needing to "go pee really bad". After you return from the restroom (hands unwashed) you sit down at the computer, pick your nose a little, grab the previously mentioned broad black brush and come to FR.
I have been a politically conservative adult for over 25 years. I do not need some snot nosed, panty waist, self appointed, "if-you-do-not-think-EXACTLY-like-I-think-than-you-are-a-liberal" type calling me a RINO. Go play that game with someone else boy.
ROTFWL
I have been a politically conservative adult for over 25 years. I do not need some snot nosed, panty waist, self appointed, "if-you-do-not-think-EXACTLY-like-I-think-than-you-are-a-liberal" type calling me a RINO. Go play that game with someone else boy.
Now that's telling him. I hate the attitude if you dont beleive exactly like me you are a RINO or DU. People that act like that make me believe that someone told them what to believe and they just accepted it without any thought and they continue on not thinking.
Gee, I'm sooo impressed with your "credentials" you self-aggrandizing sanctimonious appeaser....
Now go back to groveling under Arlen Specter's desk and play the "game" you RINOs do best -- you've come up for enough air by now, haven't you?
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