So you believe having great knowledge and total recall makes for a good USSC nominee. I disagree. Of course, its critical that a nominee to the SC know about US law and having total recall shows he is mentallly sharp. However. IMHO, that is not the standard for a good nominee to the USSC. Calling yourself a "modest" as Roberts did and brushing off words like "originalist" and "constitutionalist" is very distrubing to this conservative.
This could be a canned answer to disallow the dems any more ammo during the hearings. I think if Roberts had "announced" his thinking was just like Scalia and Thomas, getting confirmed would have been a bit harder.
Just MHO
That was to throw off the Democrats I believe, he is good, and he is trying to avoid the fate of Estrada, Bork and Thomas. Reserve judgement.
I was commenting on his demeanor here, and I gather from his answers that he would use the Constitution as his guide. I respect his annoyance w/labels. Did you have someone else in mind that is more conservative?
And to this conservative as well. I had hoped and prayed that Bush would take this once in a lifetime opportunity to turn the USSC back into a court which respects and obeys the original intent of the authors. What I am hearing today is not encouraging.
If Roberts turns out to be any less conservative than Rehnquist, and if O'Conner is replaced with another so-called "moderate", the US is doomed to continue down it's present gradual decline into a European-style socialistic cesspool and eventual destruction.