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To: Steve_Stifler
My statement: "They want someone on the court who will not only vote what they consider to be the right way, but who can articulate their arguments in written opinions."

Your statement: "What I want in a nominee is a conservative intellectual force that leads the court (and the legal system) to a more sane understanding of the proper role of the courts in our society."

They mean the same thing.

You went on to say: "As I've said before on other threads, I'd rather have a brilliant jurist who gives me 70% of the votes I want than a mediocrity who votes "correctly" all the time."

Although I have to take your word for your own position, I guarantee you that the first time some brilliant jurist casts one of those 30% votes, the caterwauling from the uber right would be just as loud as it has been these last few weeks.

2,349 posted on 10/27/2005 11:04:52 AM PDT by Wolfstar (The reactionaries' favorite short list are all judges GWB appointed to the appellate bench.)
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To: Wolfstar

You're, of course, right to question the honesty of my statement. Reviewing my recent posts, I have apparently vacillated between a 70% and an 80% "correct" vote requirement for my ideal Republican-nominated justice.


2,383 posted on 10/27/2005 11:11:49 AM PDT by Steve_Stifler
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