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Roberts Subverted Reagan (Backstabbing Establishment Republican No Friend Of Conservatives Alert)
Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 08/17/05 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 08/17/2005 12:56:26 AM PDT by goldstategop

That carefully crafted political blank slate of Judge John Roberts is getting filled in piece of by piece.

And what it reveals is an ugly portrait of a backstabbing establishment Republican who subverted the political will of the greatest American president of the 20th century.

Memos drafted by the Supreme Court nominee during his tenure in President Reagan's Justice Department show a distinct hostility to the conservative ideals embraced by his boss and to some of the individuals who championed those ideals.

Take, for instance, a Dec. 14, 1981, memo, obtained by the Washington Times, and written to his colleague, Kenneth Starr, another country-club Republican, who would later bamboozle President Reagan into nominating Sandra Day O'Connor as a Supreme Court justice.

The topic was a book called, "A Blueprint for Judicial Reform," produced by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation. The American Bar Association, no friend of the Reagan administration, was quizzing new Attorney General William French Smith about the ideas in the book.

Roberts let his hair down and revealed just what kind of a snake he truly is in this memo he probably thought would remain forever a private communication.

"I suggest we keep as low a profile on this as possible," he wrote to his co-conspirator Starr. "Weyerich [sic] is of course no friend of ours, but it won't help to stir up the influential contributors to this volume, and any comment by the AG will simply highlight the fact that we have yet to take a position" on some of the issues raised by the book.

Weyrich is no friend of ours!

Only an anti-conservative would make such a comment.

Weyrich is one of the shining intellectual lights of the modern conservative movement.

You can like him. You can dislike him. But he's a true believer and closely represented the will and ideals of Ronald Reagan, the man sitting in the White House – the man Roberts was ultimately supposed to be serving.

I've seen this kind of weasel all too often skulking around the corridors of our nation's capital – undermining visionary leaders like Reagan, betraying the people who elected them to office, promoting their own personal political agendas.

Roberts is the kind of Beltway creature I most detest. He's not man enough to stand up and tell you what he really believes. He doesn't want to be accountable for defending his positions publicly. So he conspires in the dark behind closed doors and writes memos attacking righteous men who have the courage to operate in the light.

The fact that Roberts twice misspelled Weyrich's name also suggests just how out of touch he was with conservative thought. All conservatives knew Weyrich in 1981. He was seen as one of the architects of the Reagan landslide victory and part of the conservative brain trust that would set the nation on a new political course.

Remember, this is the guy who can't remember if he ever joined the Federalist Society. He's pathological.

Now, I don't consider myself a conservative, but I do consider myself a friend to many conservatives. And my advice to those friends is to recognize right now that John Roberts is the enemy. One of my beefs with conservatives is they never seem to see it coming. They didn't recognize what Ken Starr was and is. And they still don't see the handwriting on the wall with John Roberts.

Roberts was an insider then defending the indefensible policies of the permanent bureaucracy of the Justice Department that was out to thwart Reagan initiatives.

He's a backroom "fixer," and he's just been rewarded for his underhanded wheeler-dealing with a lifetime nomination to the Supreme Court – and he will not be denied, not by the fat-cat Republicans who dominate the U.S. Senate.

In another memo to French in 1982, Roberts showed he understood how easy it was to win over conservatives with a simple phrase – a gimmick now employed with great success by President Bush.

When preparing the attorney general for an interview with the editor of the Conservative Digest, he suggested dropping the phrase "judicial restraint." That would do the trick.

Hey, isn't that the very same phrase that Bush used in announcing his nominee to the world?


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To: sasafras

"Quit claiming that you went to Iraq."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464924/posts?page=132#132

"So all that, having your friends claim, by inuendo, that you served in the military."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464924/posts?page=174#174

WHERE in your initial accusation is 'military' mentioned?
That wasn't your initial ploy.
Now, quit moving the goal posts.


181 posted on 08/17/2005 4:38:46 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: StarCMC

Time to take your medicine - I think your losing it.


182 posted on 08/17/2005 4:38:52 PM PDT by sasafras (Enforce the border, take away all the benefits and penalize employers who hire illegals)
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To: sasafras
If you won't accept the proof already given, you won't accept anything else I CAN give you. I mean Mojo ONLY sent me items for the troops while I was over there? I guess that doesn't f***in count huh? Or how about having rockets hit within 60 FEET of me but I guess that doesnt f***in count either? Don't you have an article to go write Joe Farah?

Why don't you just crawl back into your troll hole?

Whereas calling me a Bushbot, if that means I am opposite of your stupid arse, then I am just fine with that sassassfraASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS




Where did I say I was in the military?!? I guess I am blind....come on genius show me....since you have it all figured out....
183 posted on 08/17/2005 4:39:54 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: sasafras

Funny, 158 doesn't say anything about personally being in uniform.


184 posted on 08/17/2005 4:39:55 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: sasafras

I think you're losing it, post 158 said nothing about personally being in uniform.
QUOTE from that post where it saiod he was personally in uniform.


185 posted on 08/17/2005 4:40:37 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: Darksheare
Come on Darksheare you cant be that gullible? Are you a MikeinIraq wanna be?
186 posted on 08/17/2005 4:40:51 PM PDT by sasafras (Enforce the border, take away all the benefits and penalize employers who hire illegals)
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To: sasafras; Darksheare
Come on Darksheare you cant be that gullible? Are you a MikeinIraq wanna be?

Well I am a Darksheare wannabe
187 posted on 08/17/2005 4:42:04 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: sasafras; MikeinIraq

Mikeiniraq has never claimed to be something he is not. Drop it.


188 posted on 08/17/2005 4:42:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: sasafras

Honey, you really need help. Go find some, ok?? Seriously. You are going quickly off the deep end on this one.


189 posted on 08/17/2005 4:42:07 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: nopardons
Oh yes, and it was Reagan, who gave BLANKET AMNESTY to EVERY illegal alien!

Yes, the Gipper gave a ONE TIME amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in 1986.
And in order to enforce that promise, he beefed up border security and imposed penalties on businesses on businesses who knowingly hired illegals.

It was Papa Bush who reneged on this promise and opened the floodgates in 1990.
And Dubya is the backstabbing apple of his father's eye.

190 posted on 08/17/2005 4:42:45 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: sasafras

I served in uniform from Aug7 1996 to Aug8 2002.
I was a 13B10.
Now, you want to say something intelligent?

Now, respond to what the post said instead of playing little childish games of dancing to teh side.

"Quit claiming that you went to Iraq."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464924/posts?page=132#132

"So all that, having your friends claim, by inuendo, that you served in the military."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464924/posts?page=174#174

WHERE in your initial accusation is 'military' mentioned?
That wasn't your initial ploy.
Now, quit moving the goal posts.


191 posted on 08/17/2005 4:42:48 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: MikeinIraq

MikeinIraq???????????????????? - what is this supposed to reference? a comic book hero?????


And then you bring your buddies over to say that they sent you stuff in Iraq (with the troops).

Come on youve been had, wannabe.


192 posted on 08/17/2005 4:44:08 PM PDT by sasafras (Enforce the border, take away all the benefits and penalize employers who hire illegals)
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To: sasafras

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1464924/posts?page=188#188


I think you've just been had.


193 posted on 08/17/2005 4:44:45 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: sasafras; Admin Moderator

ok...

I am going to take the high road and ignore this individual.

AM, I believe you have stated your position on this thread. I only hope sasafras heeds it.


194 posted on 08/17/2005 4:45:26 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: Darksheare

pwned even....


195 posted on 08/17/2005 4:45:40 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq

Yes.
I'm going to go relax 'back at the barn'.


196 posted on 08/17/2005 4:46:13 PM PDT by Darksheare (This tagline has gone berserk! Run for your lives! _______\o/_______ Aiiiiie it's got me!)
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To: tame

"More than enough red flags have been raised all along by various sources."

The only people who seem to see those red flags are people who really can't seem to differentiate between being a lawyer and being a judge.


197 posted on 08/17/2005 4:46:57 PM PDT by republicofdavis
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To: sasafras

Hey - look at 188 - it's a clue! Please, take it.


198 posted on 08/17/2005 4:47:03 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: Darksheare

good call...

back to the ESPN poker club :)


199 posted on 08/17/2005 4:47:55 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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To: MikeinIraq; Admin Moderator

Done


200 posted on 08/17/2005 4:48:50 PM PDT by sasafras (Enforce the border, take away all the benefits and penalize employers who hire illegals)
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