Bush: Judge Samuel Alito is new choice for Supreme Court nominee

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[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[TSchmereL]

GWB has given the Democrats a few more inches of the rope with which the Democrats will hang themselves.

[ekwd]

Perhaps you could give me an education in politics here. I was under the impression that RINO's like Snowe, Collins, and Chaffee get elected because they are RINO's and that no conservative could be elected in Maine or Rhode Island. I am also under the impression that it takes both conservatives and RINO's to elect a Republicans in Ohio and some other mid-western states. Am I wrong? If I am not, just exactly how does it help this country if we (I insist that I am a conservative too) evict those RINO's from Ronald Reagan's "Big Tent" and turn the congress and probably the presidency over to the Democrats in the process.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

??? The NEA is a teacher's union.

That's bad enough. Just think tax funded art. I've been studying some of the 2005 contributions by the NEA. Not as bad as 'piss christ', but still outrageous.

"Arguably among whom? JFK may seem conservative compared to the Dem party today, but no one would consider him to be a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. He is certainly not more conservative than GWB."

A 60s moderate would be called extreme right wing today.

"Sorry, but Roosevelt and Truman were the most successful wartime Presidents. They liberated hundreds of millions in the largest war in world history. Comparing Iraq and Afghanistan to WWII is like equating a gnat to an elephant."


Wrong again. It's a simple, mathematical equasion. Who took more land with FEWER fatalities than GW Bush? Not one US president. And Afghanistan was called 'unconquerable'.

"Hijacked? We won the WH against an incumbent VP during a time of peace and prosperity by the narrowest of magrins. Who else would have beatened Al Gore? Allan Keyes? John McCain?"

How about someone with the guts to go for the jugular? It was a terrible campaign. Bush almost lost and Gore was extremely vulnerable. All Bush had to do was make daily jokes about Gore draining a dam DURING a drought for a canoe photo-op. Easy work.

[Beagle8U]

The ACLU refuses to defend the 2nd amendment also.

They claim that there is no need to do that because the NRA can do that.

[rom]

Ugh, it's probably the hate-America crowd (aka liberals) who are flooding him. Moveon probably has a bot that generates phony emails from concerened dying cancer patients, little orphaned children, fetuses for pro-choice, and Republicans on how they all oppose this nomination.

We conservatives are a few steps behind the scream machine that is the left (probably because such behavior is not in our DNA. Even this whole Miers debacle showed more class than DU on a good day).

[JeffAtlanta]

Are there states where the reverse is true? (Having to run as a strong social conservative, but maintain a fiscally moderate or even liberal platform)

Just off the top of my head, I don't think so. Some of the red states that are embracing "compassionate conservatism", like Texas, may go that way in the future though.

It's ironic that a fiscal conservative/social libertarian is probably the most winnable position but a candidate with those stances has an almost impossible time making through the primaries of either party.

[TSchmereL]

Just as Miers' religion was irrelevant (IMO), so is Alito's.

[rom]

I believe the poster meant NEA -- The National Endowment for the Arts.

[Allen H]

I agree 110%. I don't think we could have hoped for more. Now we can fight to get Alito confirmed, and also to get DeLay freed of these bogus charges and back as Majority Leader of the House, to prod the Senate to pass more legislation, and then we can tear the democrats asunder from now until next November. 8) I am VERY encouraged and quite PSYCHED!!!

[GarySpFc]

I was rooting for JRB, who is not a Catholic. She belongs to "Church of Christ" or something like that. Dunno if that falls under Evangelical.

I had been attempting for find the eligious affiliation of the various judges being considered without success. I was able to find Janice Rogers Brown is a member of the Church of Christ, and one cannot be more Evangelical than that. Now I am upset that she was not chosen, but Alito is not a bad choice. I found the foolowing:

For at least four generations, Janice notes that her family has been part of the church of Christ. That long family history of using the Bible as the single, undisputed standard for religious beliefs provided her with the foundations of her faith and fueled her analytical mind as well.

Her family, many of them noted teachers and song leaders in their congregations, expected every idea to be backed up with proof from the Word. She says she has always been drawn to the intellectual honesty of biblical study that has been emphasized in the church.

[WashingtonStateRepublican]

This news is going to make for a very happy day today. Thank you for doing the right thing President Bush!!!! And Happy Halloween Everyone!

[Allen H]

Why would Scalia step down? He's not that old yet is he? And isn't his health good? Lord I was hoping he had at least another 10 or so years in him.

[AFPhys]

The "document request" strategy was obviously designed to provoke an extended dispute with the White House, and thereby to deny Miers a timely vote on the floor. Read Krauthammer's article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506622/posts

It worked --- You may not consider that this highjacking of the nomination was done in "broad daylight", but it certainly was clear to me, as well as others who read Krauthammer (who by the way wasn't the first to propose this underhanded method to scuttle the nomination). This method has been used to scuttle presidential nominees in the past, was tried as recently as with Roberts, but the Demodogs didn't get any Republican support in that instance, so it failed then, unlike with Miers.

The Dems were wrong to insist on such with Roberts, and it was no more right in the case of Miers.

[ekwd]

What's the acronym for "National Endowment For the Arts"?

[afnamvet]

Great News! Good choice by the President!

[onyx]

He'll do no such thing.
Why would you think that?

[Texas Federalist]

Great pick GWB!!!

[JeffAtlanta]

Isn't the Catholic church the largest single religious denomination in the USA?

No, protestants outnumber Roman Catholics 2 to 1. While catholics are primarily in one monolithic denomination and the protestants are separated into many, if a person just picked a person at random, they would they would be twice as likely to pick a protestant than a catholic.

From the CIA fact book: Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)

[thoughtomator]

Woo hoo! Thank you President Bush!

[nickcarraway]

He'll do. I'm still pining for JRB.