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Yes, I heard her too. She went off 1/2 cocked, without doing any real research on Roberts and lost a lot of credibility, in doing so.

One of Roberts' best, long time friends is Luttig, whom some here think would have been a better choice, without knowing all that much ( if anything !) about his paper trail.

Mark Levin, who is a much brighter light than Ann is, on Constitutional Law and SCOTUS, thinks that Roberts is okay.

Lots of staunch Conservatives are supporting Roberts.

Ann and a few here, aren't and there is NOTHING that any of them can do about about; Roberts IS the nominee. And those who aren't supporting him now, are just helping the Dems and have fallen for the propaganda put out to divide our side.

OH really? Is Levin a close personal friend Roberts? Or is that just his opinion?

Ann's point, which is the correct one, is that we shouldn't have to run around "guessing" or "hoping" or depending on somebodies friend who knows the nanny who knows the maid who swears Roberts is "Really" a conservative.

There are plenty of qualified Scalia clones out there who who've made it perfectly clear they ARE Scalia clones. Edith Jones for example. The left never has this problem. Ginsburg was the Counsel for the F'n ACLU for gods sakes. Clinton didn't have to "guess" or "hope" she was a liberal and the same goes for Breyer.

Bush either chickened out of a fight, or has no intention of fulfilling his campaign promise.

Ann and a few here, aren't and there is NOTHING that any of them can do about about; Roberts IS the nominee. And those who aren't supporting him now, are just helping the Dems and have fallen for the propaganda put out to divide our side.

Personally, I don't think any grassroots campaign is going to change things much with GOP senators. They're all going to vote for him. Most of them also voted to confirm Ginsberg after all and survived their next elections. And the Dims aren't going to be much influenced by us either way.

So this seems to be something of a tempest in a teapot. I'm eager to see what Roberts' actual conservative credentials are. I keep thinking they must exist somewhere on paper beyond the recommendations of Luttig, Levin, and Olson.

Probably, we're all just bashing each other to no good purpose on this one. Even if he were another Souter as Coulter seemed to fear, we can't do much about it now.

Nevertheless, conservatives have good reason for concern. Roe was not possible without the two Nixon appointees who actually led the charge on it. And Eisenhower's mistake was in promising Earl Warren a seat and then actually honoring the promise, much to the detriment of the country. Ike's own assessment: "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made".

Luttig was a judge featured on the 2000 movie Deliberate Intent. The three-judge panel in that film held the book Hit Man liable for three murders committed by a man following the "how-to" techniques in that since withdrawn publication.