I guess we'll probably have to wait years to get an idea if this is a good appointment. Which makes me wonder if conservatives had questions about Thomas and Scalia when they were nominated or did they have enough of a paper trail that the overwhelming consesus was that they would be conservative originalists. If it's the later, then why didn't W. nominate a "sure thing"?
It was the latter with Scalia and Thomas, so good question about W. That's Coulter's point exactly. I gave up on W being "as advertised" back when he signed CFR. So I'm just figuring Roberts can't be worse than O'Connor. Maybe we'll get lucky. Either way, we are getting exactly what we knew we were getting. All of us looked the other way when W hedged and parsed during the 2000 campaign. We thought we was just playing a smart game of political chess. Now that he plays the same game with us, I guess we are just getting what we deserve.
I'll take Levin's opinion over Coulter's all day long when in comes to judicial issues. Ann is a sharp witty bulldog but Levin is far and away more astute in this area.
do you think that Thomas, got a conservative pass? Not likely.
For the record, Thomas was *NOT* a sure thing.
He was a protoge of Senator Danforth, a nice man and one of the more 'wobbly' Senators out there.
We had no reason to expect Thomas to be as good as he is, and no reason to expect Kennedy to be as bad as he is ... maybe its the confrimation process that did it. Maybe Thomas' independent streak helps him stay away from the DC Kool-Aid.
Frankly, Roberts is a bit more of a sure thing, because so many other conservatives know him personally.