[Rokke]

"Sell your snake oil to somebody gullible. I'm not buying it."

No one is asking you to "buy" anything. I simply asked for a source for what is obviously a false statement attributed incorrectly to George Bush. You can't provide a source, but don't feel bad. No one else can either. He never made such a statement.

[savedbygrace]

This article contains a direct quote from President Bush promising to appoint "strict constructionists":

http://polazzo.stuysu.org/can_bush_deliver_a_conservative.htm

But in the debates Al Gore made up the quote, "in the mold of Scalia . . . " out of whole cloth. Bush never said it. At least I haven't been able to find it.

[Cboldt]

Your argument style on the point we started to discuss (I intend not to probe it, the material on the thrread is adequate for future readers) rings of sophistry.

Plato is significantly responsible for the modern view of the "sophist" as someone who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all challenged the philosophical foundations of sophism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist