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Confirm Roberts(The Left Angeles Times no less!)
The Los Angeles Times(no less) ^ | September 20, 2005 | staff

Posted on 09/20/2005 6:18:43 AM PDT by kellynla

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The LAT follows suit of Boston Globe & Wash Post in support of Roberts...I'm starting to worry about this. LOL Seriously IMO, the Lefties are keeping their powder dry for the next candidate for the Suprememes.
1 posted on 09/20/2005 6:18:44 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Broder yesterday in the WaPo, and now the LA Times today. I hope to God we don't get another Souter or Kennedy.


2 posted on 09/20/2005 6:23:13 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: kellynla

Even if the Donks vote for him, they will have revealed themselves as "nothing more than self-defeating obstructionists."


3 posted on 09/20/2005 6:24:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: conservativecorner

The Lefties couldn't find any dirt on this man so they'll wait for the next candidate to dig in their heels(pun intended LOL)!


4 posted on 09/20/2005 6:27:38 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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Oh, the Times ..they are a'changing:


Kinsley leaves the Times

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484275/posts


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5 posted on 09/20/2005 6:27:57 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: kellynla
"starting to worry about this"

Stealth candidates with no record should be something to worry about. A true conservative would have all of these paper's up in arms and fighting tooth and nail to defeat him. If you think the democrats are picking up the "Republican" play book of pandering, I think you should think again. They have had one play book. Obstruction. Worry? I should hope so. Everyone is basing their ideas of Roberts from perspectives of 'hope' and 'faith' and no facts.
6 posted on 09/20/2005 6:29:52 AM PDT by commonguymd (My impatience is far more advanced than any known technology.)
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A true conservative would have all of these paper's up in arms and fighting tooth and nail to defeat him.

You mean like Supreme Court Justice Bork?

7 posted on 09/20/2005 6:32:08 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: kellynla
The Boston Globe as well wants the rancor to stop and the votes cast overwhelmingly for Roberts. The biggest reason of course, not because they know Roberts is anathema to their belief system, but because any more questions, comments, and posturing against this nomination shows how out of touch the new mainstream Democrats, as led by the Senators from California and Mrs. Clinton, are with respect to the mainstream voter who will turn out in droves next election.
8 posted on 09/20/2005 6:37:28 AM PDT by Final Authority
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To: kellynla

The other perspective on this is that the MSM toilet rags made a choice to side with the radical left. They have put all their chips there -- at the same time, they are worried about how radical and non-sensical the far-left Dims have become.

Trashing Roberts would be the MOST STUPID thing they can do -- the rags know it. Just like the highly calculating, power-centric Marxist Medusa knows it. He will be confirmed with the radical Dims hating every minute of it...


9 posted on 09/20/2005 6:38:38 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: kellynla

I agree. they know this battle is lost.

Fall back and prepare for the next nomination.

But they have no guarantee they will do better the next time.


10 posted on 09/20/2005 6:39:12 AM PDT by Cheburashka
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To: kellynla; conservativecorner

I'm thinking of political things.

Evaluating O'Connor and Alberto Gonzalez, I'd say that on a 10 point conservative scale (10 high) that Gonzalez is a closer to a 10 than was O'Connor. I consider O'Connor to be a wishy-washy 5...maybe even a 4+ Gonzalez, though, is a 6- or maybe even a solid 6.

This concession to the president is made strategically. IF the president will use his 3rd choice for a strong conservative, then I'm willing to gamble. My reasons:

1. There is a real possibility of another vacancy on Scotus. Some are ill, some are aged, some might just be tired. Many, though, are Republican. The most eligible of them could be given the back-channel message that it's time for them to take one for the team and step down.

2. The midterm elections need something to fire up the base. A knockdown dragout fight over crucial conservative issues would do just that. That would turn out the base and conceivably lead to a filibuster proof Senate after Republican gains. OR...in order to avoid just such a thing, the Dems could back off and let the 3rd selection glide on through.

Given the above, I'd support the president naming Alberto Gonzalez to the Supreme Court with his 2nd selection. It has some possibilities for misfiring, but strategically it makes sense, AND Gonzalez is more to the right than is O'Connor....which is not hard to do. Gonzalez would get quick confirmation.

This would open the way for a quick vacancy if one of the remaining Scotus team-members would play with the team. This could be determined before this step is taken.


11 posted on 09/20/2005 6:40:34 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: conservativecorner

"Broder yesterday in the WaPo, and now the LA Times today. I hope to God we don't get another Souter or Kennedy."

The MSM is setting Roberts up as a moderate so the next candidate can be labeled too extreme.

Miquel Estrada please report to the green room.



12 posted on 09/20/2005 6:42:01 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: commonguymd

One thing I got from the Roberts hearing. Roberts is going to call them as he sees them. If the ruling is against something the right wants, you at least can be sure Roberts weighed everything based on the Constitution and not the ACLU.


13 posted on 09/20/2005 6:43:31 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: kellynla

Marc Steyn says Schumer looks like an accountant for the Mafia. If Schumer votes "yes," he'll get whacked by the people who actually run the Dim party.


14 posted on 09/20/2005 6:47:38 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: kellynla
The LAT follows suit of Boston Globe & Wash Post in support of Roberts...I'm starting to worry about this.

So am I. I have a nagging feeling that we're being given another Souter.

Let's see, Ann Coulter is against him and the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times are for him.

Wasn't that the case with John Kerry?

15 posted on 09/20/2005 6:52:25 AM PDT by TBP
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The angst expressed by some senators who feel caught between the pressure of liberal interest groups and their own impression of Roberts is comically overwrought...

NARAL is gonna be PO'ed.

16 posted on 09/20/2005 6:55:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I wasn't around much for the Souter hearings. Maybe someone could clue me in on the details and correct me. Wasn't he considered a constitutionalist, constructionist or a traditionalist? The press called him a stealth candidate, and everyone assumed that he was conservative because George Bush nominated him. He started out that way, but over the years drifted to the left.

I refuse to believe or accept that conservative ideas and beliefs must be hidden and that we must rely on innuendo and faith when a candidate is introduced. Nobody had a problem with Ginsburg knowing full well that she was liberal. Hasn't it been proved that conservative ideas win every time they are tried?

17 posted on 09/20/2005 6:59:57 AM PDT by commonguymd (My impatience is far more advanced than any known technology.)
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To: TBP

I hear Roberts will be more like Kennedy than Souter. Either way, George W. Bush betrayed conservatives by nominating Roberts. Ann Coulter was right to be worried.


18 posted on 09/20/2005 7:01:39 AM PDT by TSchmereL (words)
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To: conservativecorner

Looks like a Souter or a Kennedy is what we're going to get, because if the left thought Roberts was a Thomas or Scalia, they'd be going all out to destroy him. This is NOT a good thing.


19 posted on 09/20/2005 7:02:43 AM PDT by Bombardier ("Religion of Peace" my butt.....sell that snakeoil to someone who'll believe it!)
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To: kellynla

A stopped clock is accurate twice a day. The rest of the time it is wrong. That is my view of these dinosaur media newspapers.


20 posted on 09/20/2005 7:05:14 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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