[rcocean]

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.

[matymac]

Bush would have lost the fight...Conservatives don;t have the numbers in the Senate to appoint a "clone"

[nopardons]

Levin knows Roberts work and the man, from the time both worked for the same president. Mark is also far above Ann, in his knowledge of Constitutional law and the SCOTUS.

Luttig, who some here wanted to be the nominee, without knowing ANYTHING about his paper trail, is one of Roberts' oldest and best friends.One of them, I forget which now, but I think it was Luttig,was the BEST MAN at the other's wedding. So yes, I would say that they know each other quite well !

An is NOT correct on this. She was just being a bloody bomb thrower. She hadn't done any research at all and has now, reneged on some of her statements and tempered her positions.

The president has every intention of fulfilling his promise to put a Conservative originalist on the courts of this nation; including SCOTUS. Unlike Souter and yes, O'Connor, Roberts IS a well known commodity in D.C.! He's worked for Republican presidents, in private practice, and has done more cases in SCOTUS, than any other lawyer...39, of which he has won 25.

Rehnquist was his mentor.

You are one of the extremists here, for whom nobody is far right enough and nothing this president does, is ever good enough. The die is cast; just suck it up and when Roberts is proved to be a Conservative Constitutionalist/originalists, I'm going to beat you over the head with I TOLD YA SOs; if you're still here.