Sandra Day O’Connor At The Alfalfa Club Dinner

Outside the Beltway ^ | Feb 2, 2012 | Doug Mataconis

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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor apparently got in a real zinger at last weekend’s Alfalfa Club dinner:

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor made a joke about the GOP candidates Saturday that reportedly drew much laughter. At the black-tie steak-and-lobster Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday among political and business elites in Washington, she said that of two GOP presidential candidates, “one is a practicing polygamist, and he’s not even the Mormon,” according to an Associated Press report.

The remark appeared to be a comparison between Romney’s Mormon faith (which no longer allows polygamy) and thrice-married Newt Gingrich. The dinner is closed to the press.

[Jeff Chandler]

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[DLfromthedesert]

Very classy of her.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

OK. So where’s the joke?

[FlingWingFlyer]

O’Connor is the joke. Another overrated left winger my home state turned loose on the country.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“one is a practicing polygamist, and he’s not even the Mormon”

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Well, I think that it is unbecoming of a Supreme Court Justice, retired or not (and remember that O’Connor still sits as a judge in circuit cases from time to time), to make jokes about presidential candidates, much less ones about their marital history or invoking religious steterotypes. But, that being said, I think that was pretty funny.

[Lurking Libertarian]

But, that being said, I think that was pretty funny.

Thanks, I thought I was the only one.

[Tennessee Nana]

The remark appeared to be a comparison between Romney’s Mormon faith (which no longer allows polygamy
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When did that happen ???

The Mormons still have polygamy as the most important doctrine in their religion

d&c 132 is still their doctrine

they call it “first principle”

and its necessary in their beliefs for a man to be a polygamist in order to become a god and have his own planet of many young concubines

[colorado tanker]

I thought it was funny too.

I'm so ashamed . . .

[hinckley buzzard]

Establishment republican, whaddya 'spect.

[Jacquerie]

She is proof that Ronaldus Magnus was not perfect.

From her comments over the years, it is clear she thinks Scotus is supreme among the three branches.

I hope she lives long enough to watch President Newt hang, draw and quarter the Ninth Circus.

[hinckley buzzard]

Mainstream LDS officially gave up polygamy as a price for the admission of Utah into the Union. Obviously there are still practitioners out there in the fringe.

[uncbob]

Country is dying and sliding down the greased slope to ruin and we have a former SCOTUS justice acting like a damned fool

Wonder if she ever cut jokes about Clinton

[uncbob]

She is proof that Ronaldus Magnus was not perfect.

His PC appointment of a woman to the court and taking away Washington's birthday and giving a holiday to MLK was VERY disappointing to me when he did it

[n230099]

I’m surprised she can keep the oatmeal from falling out of her mouth.

[Tennessee Nana]

“one is a practicing polygamist,

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Yes he is

Romney is a Mormon...a polygamist religion

Polygamy is one of the main tenets of Mormonism...

Ever time Romney intones his sanctimonious “I believe in the faith of my fathers” he is “sustaining” once again the polygamy that he family practiced for generations right down to his father George Romney...

His gg grandfathers had several wives as did his g greatfathers and his grandfather..

the Romneys fled into Mexico and settled there so that they wouldnt go to jail in the US for their criminal bigamy..

There was a large colony of polygamists or Mormons living in Mexico for decades..

They planned to stay there and not come back but a revolution caused many of the Mormons in the next generation to come to the US, George Romney among them..

As a temple Mormn and a high priest and a bishop, Romney has taught this same ritual of polygamy in the Mormon religious services..

as a temple Mormon Romney has to believe and “sustain” that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and correct in all he claimed that the Mormon gods told him to teach...the main thing was the need for polygamy..

[Tennessee Nana]

1890 ??

The prophet who made that proclaimation continued to practice polygamy until his death

as did the other Mormon leaders at the time

and the following Mormon prophets also

They practiced polygamy way into the 20th Century till about 1930

They didnt give up anything

In fact the first man they sent to congress from the new state of Utah was a polygamist and they knew it when they voted for him AFTER 1890..

But the decent people around the country objected to the sinful practice of polygamy..

there was a petition against him ever being allowed to sit

7 MILLION Christians signed it...

at the time the Romneys were still hiding out in Mexico thumbing their noses at the US Constitution and decency laws and practicing polygamy...

[Trailerpark Badass]

Lies aren't funny.

Adultery isn't polygamy.

If one gets the facts wrong, that just makes one stupid.

Stupidity can be funny, though.

[heye2monn]

I agree. It was pretty funny. I see nothing wrong with her doing that joke.

On the other hand, her record on the Supreme Court was a real joke. She was a mediocre, affirmative-action indecisive mealy-mouthed DISGRACE. I’ll try to think of some other things.

[AuH2ORepublican]

IMHO, O’Connor should have been impeached for her opinion in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, in which she, by her own admission, placed a determination made by a branch of government (the Judiciary, acting through the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade in 1973) above her own understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Her idolatry of stare decisis ran afoul of one of the most basic principles of American hermeneutics, one famously expounded upon by Justice Marshall in the seminal case of Marbury v. Madison: that the U.S. Constitution is higher law, and trumps any decision by a branch of government.