Ann Coulter got to him!
Coulter?
That crazy leftist?
Wasn't she the poster girl for Free Republic for years until she spoke against drinking the artificially sweetened fruit flavored drink?
Lucky Bastard!
Rob
I think Ann Coulter is a pretty savy laddy with a lot of sense.
I for one, am extremely uneasy with Roberts and his dark horse personality. I never heard of this guy Farah personally, but Roberts does worry me, and George Bush II doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to selecting people. He seems to make judgements based on personality and friendship rather than character or ideology, e.g. Tom Kean and Alberto Gonzales.
Conservatives like me put in George Bush II in office - twice. "Moderates" did everything they could to defeat him. He owes us and what he owes us more than anything else are conservatives on the Supreme Court. Its his RESPONSIBILITY to fight for candidates who practise judicial restraint and adhere to original intent. Those are two of the very basic elements which define conservativism vis-a-vis liberalism in modern political thought. And they are reflective of the opinions of most Americans on this subject.
"It really should not matter what the personal ideology of our appointees may be, so long as they recognize that their ideology should have no role in the decisional process – i.e., so long as they believe in judicial restraint."
Judicial restraint is, in itself, an ideology.
Our accelerating departure from that ideology is destroying our Republic as surely as the actions of the Senators and Demogogues of the 1st century B.C. destroyed the Roman Republic.