I believe in class warfare. It is a two-way street, however, and not just an opportunity for the Dewhursts and Weickers to keep the peasants in their place without the peasants grabbing their pitchforks and fighting back.
Oh, I see Dewhurst is not worth $250 million but ONLY a little less than $200 million. Poooooor Dewhurst!!!! How WILL he make it through next winter, impoverished as he is???
As to Ivy League SCOTUS associate justices other than the five GOP nominees I have identified: Sotomayor graduated Yale Law, Ginsburg attended Harvard Law but graduated Columbia Lawl Breyer and Kagan graduated Harvard Law. That makes it unanimous.
Newt Gingrich is not a lawyer. Nor is Herman Cain. Nor is Sarah Palin. None of the three are Ivy Leaguers at all. Rick Santorum is a lawyer but graduated Dickinson School of Law (not at all Ivy League. Michelle Bachmann is a lawyer but graduated Oral Roberts Law School and got a Master's in Tax Law at William and Mary, neither Ivy League. That excludes any love of mine for an Ivy League Executive Branch. Neither Boehner nor McConnell is an Ivy League lawyer. Both should be dumped and Ivy League or lawyer is well blow my radar as a requirement for their replacements. I would far prefer rampaging conservative ideologue and bitter enemy of the GOP-E as my top two qualifications.
Oh, Do Wurst is a businessman. Just as thrilling as Robamney is a businessman. That just settles it.
Black Elk, your last few post are imaginative, to say the least. But they don’t follow any logical line.
Synchro, Dewhurst is neither an “incumbent” nor an elite. He’s just worked hard to prove the Amrican system works.
David Dewhurst put himself through college, playing basketball. His father was killed when he was 3, his mother worked afterward, but he didn’t inherit or benefit from family money. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for the CIA. *Then* he became a businessman and built that fortune from scratch. In his 50’s, he ran for Land Commissioner, then Lt, Governor.
I wish Cruz had taken a few years in business. Mostly, I wish he had run on his merits, rather than going abrasive and negative last fall. If he wins, I hope my original expectations are true.
JFYI, Romney is also a graduate of Harvard Law. How do you think he learned to tear apart corporations and labor agreements?
Sorry, your attempt to equate David Dewhurst with Lowell Weicker is completely off base.
Weicker is a perp school grad, er, thats prep school, heir to the Squibb family fortune, lawyer, and Obama supporter. David Dewhurst is a graduate of public schools, self-made producer of products people like to buy, and to try to imply the conservative Dewhurst would support Obama is laughable.
Don’t worry, the assets David Dewhurst controls while he is on this earth are being used wisely to produce food for you to eat, gas and electricity to heat your home, and fuel so you can drive your car. Thanks to men like David Dewhurst, maybe YOU can make it through the winter.
Thanks for the list of career lawyer-politicians. Looks like we have quite enough of ‘em “serving the people” without adding Ted Cruz.
I don’t think enough conservative Texans will be fooled into electing another one.
By the way, I’m not paid staff or connected in any way to the Dewhurst campaign.
The fact I’m trying to educate tea-party followers that there are conservatives other than the ones endorsed by Sarah Palin is a function of Cruz going negative on Dewhurst from the beginning, when he did not need to, and wanting to open the eyes of fellow tea-party supporters.