That's where I was until the middle of last year. Now I'm a card-carrying Republican.
Posted on 07/19/2005 4:44:48 PM PDT by freedrudge
Edited on 07/19/2005 4:52:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Bush has chosen federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. as his nominee to the Supreme Court, a senior administration official says...
Girls as sharp as her are something rare.
I say prayers for him too. It looks like our prayers have been answered with his Supreme Court pick.
We better say some prayers for the rest of the Republicans to have a backbone to withstand "the usual" from the democrats.
I don't even think it's a question of "if" the democrats filibuster, it's "when" they filibuster, (or pull some other dirty trick), what will the Republican's do to ensure that Roberts is confirmed?
I do hope the Republicans will take this opportunity to point out yet another profound difference between Republicans and Dems i.e. When the dems claim they want a "moderate" what they mean is that they want a Supreme court nominee who is "moderate" about the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights.
The dems desire Supreme Court nominees who will set aside the Constitution, and say for example- remove private property rights.
The dems WANT justices just like the ones who took away private property rights.
The Republicans should not hesitate to explain these differences to the American people.
Yeh, he looked like he was totally psyched.
Roberts is a great pick. Bush probably just came up with Roberts' name ............ right about around last Christmas when he was thinking what he wanted for Christmas.
;-)
BTTT!!!!!!!
It's almost too bad that DU will be shut down tonight. Perhaps the FR should contriubute to keep them up? LOL!
Heh...heh!
hahaha....gift wrapped of course!
There is a fine line, and perhaps, your eyeglass prescription is outdated.
"now where are all the fringe folks who insisted he was going to sell out the conservative movement and nominate Gonzales"
my thoughts exactly
My glasses are just fine. I expressed concern about the first judge, but I also expressed some confidence in Bush. This pick I am much more confortable with. Just because I did not like the pick that was supposively leaked out and like this one better does not make me a hypocrit. I don't agree with Bush on many things and I state so when I do, but I am not one that bashes Bush, so it was a grossly incorrect characterization of what I said.
The DUers have the wrong battle this is Stalingrad, and we ain't the Germans.
"Tax cuts."
"Oh, of course, tax cuts. But other than that?"
"Fought a successful war on terrorists."
All right, I'll grant you the war on terror and the tax cuts. But what else has he done for us?"
"Abortion. Don't forget he signed the PBA bill, banned abortions at military bases and with UN money."
"Ok, ok, tax cuts, war on terror, abortion, but aside from those what has he done?"
"Judges. He got conservative judges confirmed."
"Fine. But OTHER THAN THAT . . . ."
"Brilliant Bait & Switch by Bush!!!"
That is exactly what happened.
Mixed with the fact that the announcement occurred at 9PM, he took away their opportunity to engage in negative spin (propaganda) against Roberts.
There isn't one iota of evidence that Bush listened to you or anyone else in making this pick. He made the pick because of who he is.
That's where I was until the middle of last year. Now I'm a card-carrying Republican.
He might just be happy that the President picked someone who's less likely to have a major confrontation (given he was confirmed 99-0 for the DC Circuit), and conservative enough to get some of the "base" pressure off his back.
My early impression is that he is pretty laid back and will be hard to ruffle. I think we will be proud of him. The more I hear of/from him, the more I like him.
I only hope he doesn't "mature" during his years on the bench.
Look. The President has said from day one that he would nominate only those who strictly followed the Constitution, and didn't make law. Everyone on his short list would be such a person, and acceptable to those of us who value the Constitution.
Gonzalez was supposedly on the short list (via the news media), but yesterday Edith Clements was THE nominee according to the talking heads too.
Gonzalez' name was being thrown around to cause controversy, by who knows who.
The President made this pick LONG before Gonzalez' name was brought up. He's a man of his word, and this has been part of his goal since he became President. No amount of 'noise' on a political forum made him say,"Oops. I'll take Gonzalez off my list."
(And it's not 'worshipping' him to respect his character and consistency with regard to court nominees).
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