Posted on 08/16/2005 10:00:55 AM PDT by joyspring777
Wow! FR has been around for nearly 10 years and no one chose Monty Python as a screen name till now? Welcome to FR.
Roberts isn't a moderate.
I posted this yesterday...before this article came out:
I, for one, am going to let this whole thing ride while our "best" (facetious warning) Senators are up in the hills of Vermont examining his record.
Seriously, I am going to let it ride. The other side has impaled themselves on the spike of that NARAL ad.
Roberts is in. Just a few skirmishes left is all so that Dems can say they said or did something.
The Democrats only weapon is expectorating at people in the truest sense of the word.
They are using spitballs, much like Sen Miller said our military would if Kerry and Kennedy had been successful at stopping all the weapons programs.
I am praying you are right!
Continuing with the fight analogy of throwing in the towel.
Perhaps all they have left to do before the Referee (Senate Vote) raises Roberts' hands is to pitch their spit bucket at Roberts.
We just have to be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves when the bucket gets pitched. Like dodge it and have it hit Chuck Schumer instead!
Someone needs to tell the Dems that they don't have any political capital!
I agree.
A proper Constitutionalist will find himself defending people he doesn't particularly like or agree with regarding morals, when they obviously have the same freedom under the Constitution that we all do.
That is for sure...and no mandate either!
Amazing, isn't it? The only political capital they have is what we give them.
Burning an American flag that you own as a form of freedom of speech. A flag is a piece of fabric that symbolizes a nation or group. It may enrage or sadden me to watch someone burn our flag but what about if I decided to burn an effigy of Clinton or the Iranian flag? My purpose would be to enrage others or vent my anger but do I have the right to such speech?
We can hopefully expect Roberts to use sober reasoning and a good conscience when he hears cases but we can never truly predict the outcome of a case.
There's no indication Roberts is moderate. To the contrary, the evidence points to a conservative Roberts.
My thoughts exactly. Scalia, with his deep incisive reasoning, has taught us all (meaning everyone across the political spectrum) a few things in surprising ways.
Let's hope Roberts goes in the same vein.
Those would be leaders must be magnanimous, not small.
For example: It would be small to see a leftist being robbed and raped and a conservative not do anything to defend such a one.
The same is true in the courts. Socialists and conservatives (read Constitutionalists) both deserve protection, it should matter not who's C rights are under attack. We should fight the battle equally. If the leftist loses their rights, we will lose ours as well.
Please!!!!!!!
LOL. I missed that one. Is there a link here that references that document?
Judge Roberts, who was 29 at the time, even suggested the congresswomen, Ms. Snowe, Rep. Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, and Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, might be Marxists. "Their slogan may as well be 'From each according to his ability, to each according to her gender,'" Judge Roberts quipped.
He might be able to rein in Anthony Kennedy too.
Probably a chug-a-lug.
Good comment. The anxious sighs of frustration may be simply masks while they titter at getting another easily converted guy.
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