Posted on 01/16/2006 5:03:13 PM PST by motife
To the contrary, I listen to him, or his sit-in substitute, every day as background in my office. I enjoy a perverse analog to the pleasure/pain principle of Freud as the self-promoted "Maja Rushie" goes about doing violence to epistemology and factual accuracy.
Anyone who has heard Justice Thomas speak, or read some of his opinions, knows that embarrassing himself is the last thing he would worry about. On a par with Scalia, Thomas is the most lucid thinker on the court. He doesn't ask questions because he understands the arguments implicitly and has no interest in what the advocates think about implications of a decision for which he, not they, will be responsible.
He was recommended by a local, Rudman or Sununu I forget which, to GHWB, who didn't care about conservative values. Bush I was a RINO, basically.
Souter was a wierd recluse who more or less lived in the attic, and nobody knew how he would vote on anything...but they couldn't find a hook to hang him on, so they let him go. So we got a mental case on the Supreme Court, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Roe was reaffirmed in Casey, a 5-4 squeaker.
After eight years as Ronald Reagan's VP, 41 ran on the slogan of wanting to make America a "kinder, gentler nation." He was a RINO pure and simple, a creature of the beltway hothouse.
Yes, he said it.
On balance, he tends to lean left on social issues, with one bright and shining exception: partial birth abortion. He penned a stinging denunciation of partial birth abortion in dissenting from the Breyer-authored majority opinion in Stenberg v. Carhart, which basically guaranteed that the grisly practice could be practiced with impunity in all 50 states.
Thank you.
He was not a RINO.
The Bush's a born and bred Republicans.
Committed to the Republican Party.
One day I'm going to make this a tagline, though more concise, since people keep misuing the title.
RINO= REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY
Bush 41 was not Chafee. He was not Bloomberg. He was not loyal to the PARTY in name only. RINO does not mean CONSERVATIVE In name only. The two are separate.
Rudy, Bush 41 or 43, Reagan, Pence, Romney, Allen..whatever their ideological leanings are NOT Republicans, devoted to Party, in name only.
Now was Bush 41 possibly a CINO? Conservative In Name Only? I'd say yes. He was a Northeast Republican that played conservative when it suited him in order to advance through the standings in the Party. In order to win his first election on Reagan's coattails. He'd vacilate on abortion and other matters dependant on how he perceived circumstances of the day. He wasn't a full fledged Liberal....but he was by no means a conservative. But he WAS, and IS, a Republican by birth. Just as my grandparents were Democrats by birth. They were raised so, bled FDR colors, as many from that generation did.
Justice Kennedy was against CFR. We now have five solid votes against CFR.
McC will be more of a crankypants than ever if this is overturned.
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