Posted on 06/28/2012 3:38:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
FYI, Harriet Miers recommended against John Roberts. Rove advocated for Roberts. Now who is ridiculous?
Miers is better than Roberts.
Roberts hates freedom and the Constitution and voted for this monstrosity of a bill and to enslave us. If Miers was imcompetent, as you say, it’s better to have an incompetent tyrant than one who found a way to give the liberals a way to control us , call every mandate a tax . this marxist SOB Roberts twisted in all kinds of ways to rewrite this law and to destroy individual liberty in America. nothing that Miers could have done in this position could be worse.
Gezzz..More cow flop...
I need a vacation from this horse chet...
You may, but I’m voting for Romney and every conservative down ticket.
Roberts is wearing Sandra Day O’Connors’ robe.
“The wimp theory might turn out to be the best explanation of all”
It was the worst of all worlds. He caved to Obama’s threats, and seemingly cares more of what the Washington establishment thinks of him than the Constitution.
Simple answer is narcissism with a healthy dose of megalomania. O’Connor, Kennedy and Souter all suffered from the same malady to various degrees.
Ah yes good point about Alito. Seems a lot of us are fuzzy on that right now, but with all the people saying they wish Miers had been appointed, I only wanted to point out what a terrible nomination I think she was, and by comparison Roberts seemed like a stellar choice. Blaming Bush is pretty natural reaction on a day like this. We can sit around blaming the guy’s mother too, for as much good as it will do us :)
His court is still considered one of the most conservative in modern times, despite this crap ruling.
John Roberts is brilliant. Years from now, we are going to look back on this as the day the revolution began. I can’t believe all the hand wringing on this. It’s silly. it’s going to be overturned. Period. And all at once instead of piecework.
“Miers was a ridiculous nomination, and Bush paid for it with conservatives. She was Bush’s personal lawyer; not a judge, and not somebody with the gravitas to sit on the Supreme Court. Roberts was a much better choice, given only those 2 candidates.”
There’s no requirement in the Constitution that a Supreme Court Justice has to have been a judge or a lawyer previous to their appointment to the Court. Forty-one of our Justices in fact had no prior law or judicial experience prior to their appointments.
The fact that you believe that a Justice should have been a lawyer first just shows that you’ve been suckered by the leftist media and their friends in the American Bar Association.
I think it has to be the wimp theory. Look at his wording. Roberts says it “may reasonably be characterized as a tax.”
It’s obvious from this language that Roberts was inclined to stretch the meaning. In other words, he couldn’t leave it like it actually is, he had to work with it some.
Why? Lack of fortitude.
He is like Bush, will do anything to be liked.
Alito replaced Miers. Roberts was not associated with Miers and Alito voted with the conservatives:
White House Contacted Alito Before Miers’ Withdrawal
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SupremeCourt/story?id=2819179&page=1#.T-zg1I7HVps
Who knows or even cares about what Harriet Miers would have done. All this blather about Miers is just a smoke screen and cover for the absolute failure of Chief Justice Roberts.
Yeah my 5 year old has some good suggestions too, but I wouldn’t nominate him for the Supreme Court.
Harriet Miers was unqualified and Bush looked like an idiot for nominating her.
Gotcha and agreed Miers was terrible nomination.
Dodged a bullet on that one.
At a time when Bush needed to appear strong, the Miers nomination made him look weak. It was a big waste of political capital.
Why are you so sure? Nothing is written in stone, especially with Obama in office and his friends in the press.
I pray you’re right.
Please read the dissents before making such silly claims.
A good explanation here:
You know maybe I’ll put forth a new theory here: the Midwestern Modesty one...
Roberts is from Indiana, right? My husband is from a small town in S. Illinois, and I’ve found it to be a real culture shock, being from Alaska myself.
His people are very very big on modesty, not being too big for your britches, never overstepping your role, etc. I don’t know if I can pinpoint exactly what I mean here - but I’ve found people from his part of the country to be overly concerned with what others think of them, in a way the gives them sort of this humble nature by force - as in “be humble or be castigated for being otherwise.”
Could Roberts be so utterly Midwestern that this helped turned him into a huge wimp in the face of all of the pressure?
Flame away if you are an audacious Midwesterner who begs to differ!
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