Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
Talk of Specter not supporting will DIE quickly.
You insinuated anti-Meirs Freepers were letting others do their thinking for them and I replied that this was not a problem for anyone here.
Not firing....just wondering aloud. Perhaps, also, Judge Brown believes (perhaps strongly) that she should stay in California...perhaps believes that she needs to continue to hold sway over those courts, as well?
I think it is AWESOME that he picked a friend of Specter -- doesn't get much better than that when Alito is a conservative. Maybe the support for Specter will now be seen by the conservatives in PA slightly different.
Spending, for one thing. I don't recall reading him increasing the funding of a tarnished institution like the NEA for another. While arguably more conservative than Bush in many ways, JFK isn't conservative enough either.
Don't get me wrong. Bush, as things stand now, is the most successful wartime president in US history: liberating more people and land with such comparably low fatalities [even the 'unconquerable' Afghanis]-- that's a major accomplishment. It would take over 40 years to reach Vietnam level fatalities.
At the same time, we need to look hard at how the 2000 primary was hyjacked, or the same thing will happen in 2008. But who realizes we were hyjacked?
An unquestionably qualified nominee.
Arlen Spector looked sick at the Senate introduction of the Judge and mumbled something about "lots of paperwork".
In fact he looked about as pleased as Harry Reid.
Arlen needs to feel the heat.
I know and so did David Boren!
BTW, our team has grown up -- first win in NE in 18 years.
"Early on in our republic's history the country was 99+% Christian and 98% European. Time to turn the historical tides and arrest and reverse the demographic trends that are destroying our country."
Stormfront slow this morning or something?
Maybe it's the time change, but did you just say that no one here has a problem with others doing their thinking for them?
I have to go back in my pings -- bet he is no longer a poster! :)
I would have preferred someone other than a "government" lawyer/judge but I am sure he could have made a worse pick. I'm just disappointed he couldn't find a qualified woman. But the fact that Harry Reid isn't happy is a good thing.
Definition: What a lib or closet lib "moderate / independent" calls an ideological / social / fiscal conservative that represents the majority of the American people, in a vain attempt to make liberals appear as though they are not as small of a minority on the fringe left, and make conservatives appear as thoug they are a not as large of a majority of the American people. See also; disconnected from reality.
and he's only 19 years old. That gives him at least 60 years on the court. (grin)
Seriously, best of luck to him.
Do you really believe those who disagree with you can't think for themselves, but those who endorse whatever the President does are thinking for themselves?
No surprise there, IMO.
I agree.
Absolutely -- we are part and parcel of the grassroots movement in the GOP that sent Dr. Tom Coburn to the Senate.
Accurate definition.
I supported Miers on the grounds that a "stealth" conservative was the only way to get a true conservative approved by THIS Senate. I trusted the President when he said he knew Harriet Miers personally, and her journey through life had made her into someone a person like ME could support.
Alito does not seem to be a "stealth" candidate, so we're about to find out if the stealth strategy is really necessary.
If he's really conservative, the left will attack him with every bit of slime they can manufacture. Republicans were guilty of using the same kind of smears just one week ago.
Moral outrage when the low blows start is going to sound kind of hollow when it's Ann Coulter or George Will trying to call "foul". You can bet the ranch it will be more difficult to defend Alito NOW than it would have been if we had not thrown away the moral high ground.
I love this pick -- do you think we are going to get dissenters on here now -- if we do, we sure know which way they lean -- LEFT!
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